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Ask Slashdot: Are Progressive Glasses a Mistake For Computer Users?
An anonymous reader writes I'm a daily, all-day computer user and use two 19-inch monitors for my work. I'm at the age now where I need reading glasses, and my optometrist steered me to progressive lenses. I don't need any correction for distance, only reading. I'm trying very hard to get used to them, but I hate them. The focal point seems to be about 1 inch big, with everything around that blurry. Reading books on my iPad is a struggle; I have to turn my head side to side simply to keep the line of text in focus, and when I do that, the page warps and flow in a dizzying manner. I don't think reading should be like watching a tennis match. And using my two monitors at work? Hopeless and frustrating! Has anybody here who uses either very large or multiple computer monitors figured out how to comfortably use progressive glasses? Or are they simply inappropriate for this kind of use?
Therefore, any professional opinions provided by the optometrist are going to be biased by the money involved.
This.
The second to the last optometrist that I went to insisted that I get trifocals. I insisted that I wanted a single focal point with the focal point set for the computer monitor. He huffed and puffed and finally gave me a single prescription -- with a focal point about 20 feet away. The bastard. He knew what I wanted and decided to screw me over so that I would have to come back. I didn't; I went elsewhere.
I must admit that I read his obituary with great glee.
I must admit that I read his obituary with great glee.
I trust it was in focus ?
TAKE
THEM
OFF
Coincidentally, the same eye chart as seen in Naughty Optometrists 4.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
You totally massacred the recent research that was in the news
Take it up with my lawyers: Dewey, Cheetham and Howe.
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