A Lack of Vision
Mar. 2nd, 2022 09:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperThe problem with getting older is that various workarounds that you've been using start to fail. In my case, I'm starting to have problems with the one eye adjusted for distance, one eye adjusted for close work pair of contacts that I've been using, because the eye that's adjusted for close vision just can't keep up with the increasing difficulty focusing on close objects.
The right solution for this is probably a pair of reading glasses, but all of the glasses that we've got around the house provide too much correction, it seems, for me to be comfortable with them. I have ordered a pair of computer glasses with a tiny correction that should arrive tomorrow.
Of course, tomorrow's just a day away or something like that and I figured that I might be able to get some eyestrain relief by moving the monitors on my desk further away. Piece of cake!
Except that the power strip is directly behind the main monitor. And the network hub is just to the left next to the NAS, while there's a KVM switch on the right, so shifting things around is problematic. But, hey! Let's give it a try.
This adventure ended up with two power bricks falling behind the desk and taking their cords along with them. Since the desk is next to the wall, retrieving them was exciting. I eventually shoveled them out with a broomstick. Then I plugged the brick that is the power supply for the work computer's Thunderbolt hub into the wrong Thunderbolt port, which resulting in the computer refusing to charge from it. I eventually figured that out. I also managed to unplug the NAS (now rebooted), the computer speakers (why is there no sound coming out?), and the WAP that sits on my desk (where did the Internet go?).
But the monitors are now further away, a lot of dust has been removed, and that section of the desk looks great, because all of the crud that had accumulated there is on the main body of the desk, sitting between me and the tax paperwork that I am studiously trying to ignore.
Meanwhile, reading the monitors while coding remains problematic. I am considering whether a lot of this problem is due to flicker and having downshifted the connections to VGA instead of Display Port, because everything is running through a KVM switch that only understands VGA; or perhaps the problem is that RDP on the work computer is introducing the flicker.
Well, the new glasses arrive tomorrow. Let's see how *they* work...
The right solution for this is probably a pair of reading glasses, but all of the glasses that we've got around the house provide too much correction, it seems, for me to be comfortable with them. I have ordered a pair of computer glasses with a tiny correction that should arrive tomorrow.
Of course, tomorrow's just a day away or something like that and I figured that I might be able to get some eyestrain relief by moving the monitors on my desk further away. Piece of cake!
Except that the power strip is directly behind the main monitor. And the network hub is just to the left next to the NAS, while there's a KVM switch on the right, so shifting things around is problematic. But, hey! Let's give it a try.
This adventure ended up with two power bricks falling behind the desk and taking their cords along with them. Since the desk is next to the wall, retrieving them was exciting. I eventually shoveled them out with a broomstick. Then I plugged the brick that is the power supply for the work computer's Thunderbolt hub into the wrong Thunderbolt port, which resulting in the computer refusing to charge from it. I eventually figured that out. I also managed to unplug the NAS (now rebooted), the computer speakers (why is there no sound coming out?), and the WAP that sits on my desk (where did the Internet go?).
But the monitors are now further away, a lot of dust has been removed, and that section of the desk looks great, because all of the crud that had accumulated there is on the main body of the desk, sitting between me and the tax paperwork that I am studiously trying to ignore.
Meanwhile, reading the monitors while coding remains problematic. I am considering whether a lot of this problem is due to flicker and having downshifted the connections to VGA instead of Display Port, because everything is running through a KVM switch that only understands VGA; or perhaps the problem is that RDP on the work computer is introducing the flicker.
Well, the new glasses arrive tomorrow. Let's see how *they* work...