I think getting older and my over reliance on staring at screens is
doing crazy crap to my right eye. I noticed this during my holiday last
month. I am going to try and wear my glasses regularly and get an eye
doctor appointment as soon as I am able to.

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On 04 Oct 2026 at 07:56p, Matthew Munson pondered and said...

I think getting older and my over reliance on staring at screens is
doing crazy crap to my right eye. I noticed this during my holiday last month. I am going to try and wear my glasses regularly and get an eye

what's your eye doing (or not)?

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I think getting older and my over
reliance on staring at screens is
doing crazy crap to my right eye.
I noticed this during my holiday
last
month. I am going to try and wear
my glasses regularly and get an
eye
doctor appointment as soon as I am
able to.

Definitely get a doc appointment if it was some sudden vision change thing. Could be nothing like eye strain but could also be something more. Better to be safe than sorry!


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Re: My eyes
By: Matthew Munson to All on Sun Oct 04 2026 19:56:26

I think getting older and my over reliance on staring at screens is
doing crazy crap to my right eye. I noticed this during my holiday last month. I am going to try and wear my glasses regularly and get an eye
doctor appointment as soon as I am able to.

I've recently been having to increase the fonts in my terminal, and now in Windows itself. Webpages are all zoomed in and the magnifer is on stand by. Aging sucks. Looks like it's reading glasses for me.
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Nigel Reed wrote to Matthew Munson <=-

I've recently been having to increase the fonts in my terminal, and now
in Windows itself. Webpages are all zoomed in and the magnifer is on
stand by. Aging sucks. Looks like it's reading glasses for me.

I heard a comedian talking about dating older guys and mentioning the
HUGE font on their phones. :)

I've worn glasses for some time, but I hated reading glasses. I needed
some astigmatism correction at distance, but not much. I've been
wearing progressives for about 30 years now. They're expensive, which
bites, but I don't have to worry about taking them off and on again to
read.

I'm 60 and about due for another eye exam, thankfully my prescription
is mostly stable. Usually I end up scratching my lenses and that
prompts me to get an exam and new glasses every year or two. :)



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Re: Re: My eyes
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nigel Reed on Wed Oct 07 2026 07:40:36

I'm 60 and about due for another eye exam, thankfully my prescription
is mostly stable. Usually I end up scratching my lenses and that
prompts me to get an exam and new glasses every year or two. :)

You should get the scratch proof coating. If your prescription doesn't change it might be worth it.
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Nigel Reed wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

You should get the scratch proof coating. If your prescription doesn't change it might be worth it.

Ever since I discovered microfiber cloths, I've been pretty lucky about
keeping glasses scratch-free. Using a mf cloth and ensuring the glasses
are wet before wiping them does the trick.




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Re: Re: My eyes
By: Nigel Reed to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed Oct 07 2026 11:27:43

You should get the scratch proof coating. If your prescription doesn't change it might be worth it.

I have that on mine, but it's not scratch "proof", it's scratch resistant.
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Re: My eyes
By: Nigel Reed to Matthew Munson on Wed Oct 07 2026 02:24 am

I've recently been having to increase the fonts in my terminal, and now in Windows itself. Webpages are all zoomed in and the magnifer is on stand by. Aging sucks. Looks like it's reading glasses for me.

Lately I've been wondering if glasses might help me. I've always had pretty good eyesight and never needed to wear glasses, but in the last year or two, I sometimes have a harder time reading things in the evenings, though it feels like it's because of eye moisture rather than my eyes themselves.. But there have been times when I'll be reading a food package or something and the font just seems a bit too small for me to read. Sometimes I'll take a photo of it with my phone and then zoom in on the photo to read it.

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I think getting older and my over reliance on staring at screens is doing crazy crap to my right eye. I noticed this during my holiday last month. I am going to try and wear my glasses regularly and get an eye doctor appointment as soon as I am able to.

I've recently been having to increase the fonts in my terminal, and now
in Windows itself. Webpages are all zoomed in and the magnifer is on
stand by. Aging sucks. Looks like it's reading glasses for me.

I resemble all of these remarks. Getting old does suck. At least I don't
have to grow up!
JayDawg

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I think getting older and my over reliance on staring at screens is doing crazy crap to my right eye. I noticed this during my holiday last month. I am going to try and wear my glasses regularly and get an eye

what's your eye doing (or not)?

I think it might of been due to my sleep deficit.

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Re: My eyes
By: Nightfox to Nigel Reed on Thu Oct 08 2026 17:32:54

Lately I've been wondering if glasses might help me. I've always had pretty good eyesight and never needed to wear glasses, but in the last year or two, I sometimes have a harder time reading things in the evenings, though it feels like it's because of eye moisture rather than my eyes themselves..
But there have been times when I'll be reading a food package or something and the font just seems a bit too small for me to read. Sometimes I'll take a photo of it with my phone and then zoom in on the photo to read it.

I have photos of all sorts of things because I couldn't read them. Usually I'll just zoom in with the camera but the "take pic" button often gets hit or some asshat shouts "cheese" lol.
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Hello Nightfox!

** On Thursday 08.10.26 - 17:32, Nightfox wrote to Nigel Reed:

Lately I've been wondering if glasses might help me. I've always had pretty good eyesight and never needed to wear glasses, but in the last
year or two, I sometimes have a harder time reading things in the
evenings, though it feels like it's because of eye moisture rather than my eyes themselves.. But there have been times when I'll be reading a food package or something and the font just seems a bit too small for me to read. Sometimes I'll take a photo of it with my phone and then zoom in on the photo to read it.

Try the Magic-Eye 3D type exercises. They actually improve eyesight function. Then, when you get the hang of the technique you can do it without any images by just doing it using the "feel" that you learn from the 3D viewing.

https://www.magiceye.com/stwkdisp.htm


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I resemble all of these remarks. Getting old does suck. At least I
don't have to grow up!

I remember overhearing a vendor meet and greet in an elevator going up
to an office, people making small talk. One guy mentioned where he grew
up, and asked the other where he grew up.

He replied, "...I didn't grow up."

Good answer!



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Nigel Reed wrote to Nightfox <=-

I have photos of all sorts of things because I couldn't read them.
Usually I'll just zoom in with the camera but the "take pic" button
often gets hit or some asshat shouts "cheese" lol.

I stopped being a phone/network guy when I was trying to hurriedly
punch down a jack in time for an all-hands meeting. It refused to come
up. With a few minutes to spare I hit it with my phone's flashlight and
realized I was punching the blue wire to the green punchdown.

Wiring is a job for young eyes - and I was working with in-house
wiring! I'd see the telco guys splicing 25 and 50-pair cables, have no
idea how they could do that year after year.



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Re: Re: My eyes
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nigel Reed on Fri Oct 09 2026 10:01:43

Wiring is a job for young eyes - and I was working with in-house
wiring! I'd see the telco guys splicing 25 and 50-pair cables, have no
idea how they could do that year after year.

Reminds me of when I was working for a hospital in Sheffield and a contractor cut through the phone cables. The fact they didn't have a disaster plan in place for an event like this is mind boggling, but that's another story. I went to look at the damage and then were a whole bunch of wires and I was thinking to myself, no way they going get those back together. Surprisingly they did. I guess it's not their first time.
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Re: My eyes
By: Ogg to Nightfox on Fri Oct 09 2026 08:52 am

Lately I've been wondering if glasses might help me. I've always had

Try the Magic-Eye 3D type exercises. They actually improve eyesight function. Then, when you get the hang of the technique you can do it without any images by just doing it using the "feel" that you learn from the 3D viewing.

I've never been able to see the 3D effect on those. I remember trying to see those around 1993 when they were new but was never able to.

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Hello Nightfox!

Try the Magic-Eye 3D type exercises. They actually improve eyesight..

I've never been able to see the 3D effect on those. I remember trying to see those around 1993 when they were new but was never able to.

I recently watched a teenager trying to "figure it out" with the encouragement of their parent. The parent said "cross your eyes". But technically, that's the opposite of what you want to do. Instead, I interjected and suggested that the whole idea is to achieve "parallax view" - meaning, to un-cross and relax your eyes. Hold the image in front of you but look into the distance as if you were to look far BEHIND the image. Then, let the brain "focus" on the image.

And THAT worked! It was fun to see the teenager witness the "magic" reveal based on the emerging smile and "Wow!".

The instructions on the Magic Eye pages is good too.

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Try the Magic-Eye 3D type exercises. They actually improve eyesight function. Then, when you get the hang of the technique you can do it without any images by just doing it using the "feel" that you learn
from the 3D viewing.

https://www.magiceye.com/stwkdisp.htm

Thats not a bad idea! My younger daughter needs glasses, I might get her to try these. I still have three of those "Magic Eye" books from the 90's that my mum got for me.

It makes sense, as you do need to exercise the focus of your eyes to see the 3D images.

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Re: My eyes
By: Nightfox to Nigel Reed on Thu Oct 08 2026 17:32:54

Sometimes I'll take a photo of it with my phone and then zoom in on the photo to read it.

Get yourself a small magnifying glass. More handy than a phone.
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Hello pF!

** On Wednesday 07.10.26 - 07:40, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Nigel Reed:

I've worn glasses for some time, but I hated reading glasses. I needed
some astigmatism correction at distance, but not much. I've been
wearing progressives for about 30 years now. They're expensive, which
bites, but I don't have to worry about taking them off and on again to
read.

I'm 60 and about due for another eye exam, thankfully my prescription
is mostly stable. Usually I end up scratching my lenses and that
prompts me to get an exam and new glasses every year or two. :)

Sounds like you could benefit from the MagicEye3D-type exercises.

I don't need glasses for close-up, but I do find that occassionally my eyes take time to adjust to distance if I've been staring at a screen for an extended period, and sometimes it remains a bit out of focus. But a few minutes doing the exercise clears that up.

I was steared to such exercises when I complained about difficulty seeing the distant boards at university. First, the campus Dr put me through the lens machine, but no one particular setting seemed to stick. I was diagnosed with astigmatism - probably due to stresses. But he also mentioned some eye exercises I could do. The basic one was "look into the distance, identify two vertical lines - like the edges of a building, two posts, or the vertical edges of a door or window - then cross your eyes to line up those edges - then, try to force those edges to come into focus." At first it feels impossible to get the focus, but the whole process is the point. After several attemps and holds, distance vision (and consequently close-up vision) improves.

The MagicEye3D techniques are similar (parallax viewing and cross-eyed viewing) since they exercise the same muscles and the lens.

This page describes the whole science and the two types of viewing quite well..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autostereogram

"Those who wear eyeglasses with so-called "progressive" lenses, in which the focal length gradually changes so as to ease the viewing of close objects using the lower part of the lens, may find that viewing a stereogram is easier if the glasses are pushed up a little so that the stereogram is viewed through a part of the lens optimized for images that are closer than the actual distance to the stereogram. When the eyes are made divergent by looking (or pretending to look) at a far-away object, the overcorrection from viewing the stereogram through the "wrong" part of the lens can bring the stereogram into focus without needing to overcome the tendency to focus on the far-away object while attempting to focus on the stereogram."

I'm the only cousin out of 14 + about half of that count of 2nd-cousins + all the aunts and uncles, that doesn't wear glasses, and I'm nearing 70. I attribute this feat to doing the exercises over the decades.


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Re: My eyes
By: Ogg to Nightfox on Fri Oct 09 2026 09:36 pm

Try the Magic-Eye 3D type exercises. They actually improve eyesight..

I've never been able to see the 3D effect on those. I remember trying to
see those around 1993 when they were new but was never able to.

I recently watched a teenager trying to "figure it out" with the encouragement of their parent. The parent said "cross your eyes". But technically, that's the opposite of what you want to do. Instead, I interjected and suggested that the whole idea is to achieve "parallax view" - meaning, to un-cross and relax your eyes. Hold the image in front of you but look into the distance as if you were to look far BEHIND the image. Then, let the brain "focus" on the image.

And THAT worked! It was fun to see the teenager witness the "magic" reveal based on the emerging smile and "Wow!".

I had heard that and tried it, but it didn't work for me. But maybe I could have spent more time trying.

Nightfox
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