Signs your getting old?

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  • Nairn14

    You increasingly use your phone's camera, sometimes macro mode, to read small text.

    • It comes in handy for reading serial numbers on devices with tiny text in very inconvenient places.CyBrainX
    • every time I buy a DJI productGuyFawkes
    • ...in a dimly lit restaurant...canoe
    • yes and usually with medication bottle dosage at 3am for some reason, damn eyeswhatthefunk
    • Yep! so many products now have their ingredient list in the tiniest font. I need to know if this product has dairy in it! :(Akagiyama
    • Yes. Fuck you tiny cooking instructions.mort_
    • ^Continuity
    • Ha! The silent revenge of the nearsightedOBBTKN
    • and make the logo biggerneverscared
    • or smaller and the small text largerneverscared
    • took a photo of centrum multivitamins bottle to read the micro list of what vitamins and amounts were in a pill, pinch zoomed like old bag of dustprophetone
    • Sometimes I go through my photos just to delete all the photos of close ups I can’t readdmay
    • i was nearsighted but getting old actually corrected that... lolpango
    • 100%_niko
    • lol@nevercanoe
    • Every time I rebuild a carburettor now, I use my phone to read the jet and valve sizes. So annoying. Might buy one of those magnifying lamps and admit defeat.slappy
    • this should be inthe useful threadArchitectofFate
    • Good tip and feel you on this one. Over the last 6 months my eyes have literally given up focusing on anything. And Mort, Aldi cooking instructions are STUPIDIanbolton
    • You know there are drops that can temporarily fix blurry vision due to age?lemmy_k
    • iPhone has a native magnifier app - works way better than just zooming in with the cameraGnash
    • Do we have to enable "ur a bag of sad dusty sand" accessibility features to use itprophetone
    • "You know there are drops that can temporarily fix blurry vision due to age?
      lemmy_k" <— go on.
      Continuity
    • DMT eye dropsprophetone

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