I have an Ebook reader too (but very old, with slow page building, didn’t use in years) and it’s much different from a regular screen. Also much smaller too. So I can’t compare it to that. My monitor is high resolution, has much more dynamic range than a ereader and is much brighter too. And bigger.
I didn’t have a computer as a kid (90s) and didn’t use DOS or anything, even though i used computers here and there back then. So I don’t think its related to that theory of using too much raw terminal. In fact, I do program or play with commandline tools almost every day or a few days apart a little bit (mostly scripting or trying things out for hobby) in the terminal and I use dark color schemes since years. For programming it is much better to me. But I am very selective until I find a “usable” color scheme. My favorite so far is Gruvbox theme https://github.com/morhetz/gruvbox, but I use something different at the moment. In fact I have set beehaw.org site to dark theme too:
But pure white on black on a monitor just hurts my eyes, when there is lot of text to read.
Absolutely (re: theming and tuning)! My actual work scheme is a slightly off white and a lighter transparent black, which is closer to the theming you’re talking about. I’m also just really happy with simple stuff, possibly because I did have that old CRT experience? Your point about size is well-taken. I read this article on my phone (which is my travel ereader) and wasn’t bothered. I hadn’t considered size there.
Fascinating! White-on-black is how I’ve used ereaders for around 15 years now. Black-on-white (on a screen) burns my eyes.
Did you spend much time as a kid with a raw terminal (eg vanilla DOS on a CRT)? I’m curious if anecdotally there is correlation.
I have an Ebook reader too (but very old, with slow page building, didn’t use in years) and it’s much different from a regular screen. Also much smaller too. So I can’t compare it to that. My monitor is high resolution, has much more dynamic range than a ereader and is much brighter too. And bigger.
I didn’t have a computer as a kid (90s) and didn’t use DOS or anything, even though i used computers here and there back then. So I don’t think its related to that theory of using too much raw terminal. In fact, I do program or play with commandline tools almost every day or a few days apart a little bit (mostly scripting or trying things out for hobby) in the terminal and I use dark color schemes since years. For programming it is much better to me. But I am very selective until I find a “usable” color scheme. My favorite so far is Gruvbox theme https://github.com/morhetz/gruvbox, but I use something different at the moment. In fact I have set beehaw.org site to dark theme too:
But pure white on black on a monitor just hurts my eyes, when there is lot of text to read.
Absolutely (re: theming and tuning)! My actual work scheme is a slightly off white and a lighter transparent black, which is closer to the theming you’re talking about. I’m also just really happy with simple stuff, possibly because I did have that old CRT experience? Your point about size is well-taken. I read this article on my phone (which is my travel ereader) and wasn’t bothered. I hadn’t considered size there.