alt Hacker NewsWhile you are right about the many misconfigured monitors, the right solution is to set an appropriate brightness and contrast, not to invert the text.
Too bright ambient lighting is better handled with monitor shields, not by increasing the display brightness, especially when the screen is glossy.
Not disagreeing (my external screens have never been set higher than 30% brightness, but they've also always been matte, except a couple instances I had to use Macs for work).
But I am sure none of this has been part of an actual study with screens.