@JaySinWA If Dark Mode bugs you and you use Chrome, try the Darker Reader extension. I was able to back off the black background to medium gray. It will change all the websites you visit unless you tell it not to. You can specify CounterSocial only.
You can find specific instructions in the #CoSoTips feed
@KSmithSF This CS dark mode has less bright whites on my machine than Twitter does. I'm comfortable with it w/o Dark Reader.I've used DR in the past, but not recently.
When I started in computing with access to a screen, i had white or green text on a black screen or maybe amber orange later depending on the vendor .
White backgrounds for text on screens was often irritating to my eyes.
@KSmithSF In college I had a mix of punch cards and terminals. Early in my first job it was punch cards for programming, terminals were reserved for testing the data entry applications for accounting.
I came from the punch card era, too. BASIC. FORTRAN. By my senior +1 year--I changed majors a few times--there were TSO terminals. I had permission but never did anything with it. Didn't work regularly with desktops until the Big Pharma day job.
@KSmithSF We didn't get TSO terminals until after my first year at work. I remember the debates about whether the punch card emulation software was as safe as punch cards.
@KSmithSF The College terminals were ASCII text connected to some scavenged computer hardware with a hacked together OS. Mostly CRT's with a few TTY's for printouts.
@KSmithSF As I recall, at work one of the managers bought an early IBM desktop with "discretionary funds" and was severely reprimanded. The machine was confiscated by IT and was "evaluated" by staff.
It was years before any desktop hardware was authorized.
@JaySinWA
My first desktop at the old day job was amber on black. I hated it, but at least I had a desktop.