[adius]

I use light mode during the day and dark mode in the evening, with the OS switching automatically based on the sun’s position.

To me, this seems like the obvious way to decide when to use dark mode, but apparently I’m in a very small minority.

[genewitch]

i let my devices attempt to enforce this. Windows goes one further by automatically dimming my displays at a set time (it defaults to like 19:00 or 20:00). I wish my phone did this too, but i haven't found a way to have it do dim and undim automatically.

anyhow if you read between the lines in many of the comments (above this one at this time), i get the idea that most people would answer "it depends" and the people who like light mode either have properly set up their display (130 nits was mentioned), people who have astigmatisms (mentioned), or people who don't know there's anything else.