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🗓️ 1 May 2025
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0:00.0 | I have finally reached an important milestone. |
0:03.5 | You already got glasses. |
0:04.6 | Have you bought a boat? |
0:05.9 | I regret to inform you that I now need to use reading glasses when using a laptop. |
0:14.3 | I have finally crossed threshold that when the laptop is on my lap, that distance has finally gotten a little fuzzy. |
0:23.8 | So did you get the ones that the two lenses magnetically snap to each other? |
0:28.3 | Or did you just get a regular one that's on a like a stringer on your neck? |
0:33.5 | All right. So far, here's my glasses situation and set up so far. |
0:38.4 | So I have a pair of progressives that I believe I mentioned, or I got about, I don't know, |
0:44.4 | like around Thanksgiving, I started wearing them. |
0:46.7 | So I got a pair of progressives that is nothing on top and reading on the bottom. |
0:52.6 | I'm wearing them almost all the time now, like doing |
0:54.8 | stuff around. But I, I, the problem with progressives is that the part that is in focus for the |
0:59.5 | reading is really only like the bottom middle of your view of your field of view. So as a result, |
1:05.8 | those are actually pretty bad for computer use. Because for computer use, you want like a large, |
1:13.5 | flat rectangle to be entirely in focus not just like the part of it that your head is most pointing towards near the bottom |
1:18.6 | so progressives i have found are great for pretty much all of the rest of life except computers now |
1:26.2 | i don't know if you've heard i do occasionally use computers |
1:29.1 | would you say you're doing a lot with computers right now yeah as always so progressives are |
1:35.4 | they're again they're wonderful for all those situations but computers they're they're not so great for |
1:41.3 | um for computers i just need reading glasses. Just like low power, |
1:45.3 | like, you know, 0.5 or, you know, 0.75, uh, reading glasses for computer use. Did you get them |
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