Re:GDB Frontend with C Pointer Visualization
by seanmcdirmid on Monday February 17, 2020 @09:08AM
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Unless you are using an OLED, a dark theme is not more energy efficient than a light one.
Re:GDB Frontend with C Pointer Visualization
by BeeOnRope on Monday February 17, 2020 @12:25PM
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I don't think this is true: many transmissive LCD technologies adjust their backlight brightness, including differently across regions, depending on the displayed image?
Re:GDB Frontend with C Pointer Visualization
by seanmcdirmid on Monday February 17, 2020 @02:22PM
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OLEDs incorporate the backlight with the pixel, so they can turn on or off the light for each pixel, giving you much nicer blacks. A typical LED backlight is just a single uniform light, so it can only be adjusted for the entire screen, and unless your screen is black, you need some light. I guess if everything was a at most a darker grey, they could crank it down, but I don’t think anyone does that?
Re:GDB Frontend with C Pointer Visualization
by BeeOnRope on Monday February 17, 2020 @10:17PM
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I'm not sure about typical, but I believe most high-end LED backlit displays use at least one of global or local dimming of the backlight depending on what's on the screen.
This means that the power use of this type of LED backlit display is also sensitive to what is being displayed (but at a coarser resolution to OLED).
Re:GDB Frontend with C Pointer Visualization
by acqq on Monday February 17, 2020 @06:46AM
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That “quote” of what I wrote:
> > I don’t like this so nobody else should. > Is always obnoxious.
Is completely fake.
Readers beware.
I like dark mode. If it has options to let you have dark-text-on-bright-backgrounds, why does the option for a dark mode bother you?
Tech should cater to different needs. Nobody should have to defend their preferences against anyone, but for those wondering if there are any objective reasons:
I don’t want intense light constantly blasting my eyes, taking up more energy and reducing the display’s effective lifetime, and I want to be able to work comfortably in dark environments, which may be dark for any reason: Not wanting to wake other people up, or bother anyone in theaters/restaurants/cars/planes/etc. or simply reducing energy usage.