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For the love of God, stop assuming everyone wants dark themes. Some of us have trouble reading dark themes. It's accessibility and inclusion fail to make things dark-only.

Nick Guerrera

@nguerrera.dev

7 Sept

Also, "light themes blind me" -> try with the brightness at a normal setting instead of sell-monitor-in-retail-store mode.

Nick Guerrera

@nguerrera.dev

7 Sept

And if they still blind you, I support your choice, just don't impose it on everyone.

Kevin Jones

@vcsjones.dev

7 Sept

Custom theming à la Zed / Ghostty is becoming increasingly important to me. I find I just really dislike everyone’s theme choices.

Nick Guerrera

@nguerrera.dev

7 Sept

Right, I always have but recently I'm seeing an uptick in "pitch black is fine for everyone". Never cared if I could change it, but I rage when I can't.

Nick Guerrera

@nguerrera.dev

I have this weird preference, where terminal/emacs is fine with my one custom dark theme while I want every other app looking light as always. Something about traditional GUI and dark mode gives me a headache after reading for even a few minutes.

7/9/26, 5:41 pm0 reposts0 likes

Nick Guerrera

@nguerrera.dev

7 Sept

Today's culprit is GNOME Boxes. You have GNOME in your name, respect my GNOME settings, or at least give me a discoverable option to do so!

Nick Guerrera

@nguerrera.dev

7 Sept

Every day I tell myself to stop getting angry about tech on the internet and every day I fail. LOL.

Nick Guerrera

@nguerrera.dev

7 Sept

(I figured out how to hack around it, it's beside the point, honoring system theme should not require hacking, it should be the default, and failing that, a trivially discovered option.)