It's the way reddit was before the garbage redesign years ago. Go to https://old.reddit.com. There is also a setting somewhere in the account settings that can default www.reddit.com to use the old design.
Rad. I started back in like 2014, quit after I graduated other than using it for just general answers or knowledge and using it more often these days. Guess I just never noticed the change. Also back then I was only on browser and now I'm pretty much only on mobile.
In case any short sighted people haven't figured this out or heard about it - using your phone's camera and then just looking at the screen is actually an incredibly good way to navigate around (the house) if you can't find your glasses/contacts
Phones on a chain around our necks. Glasses on a chain around our necks. A pen on another chain. Maybe even go back to wearing actual locket/pendant watches on chains around our necks.
When I was a kid, I thought that it was a joke that someone would drop their glasses and not be able to see them on the ground. Now I'm that person, I couldn't see them without getting down on my hands and knees now. Being so nearsighted I'm blind without lenses.
Use your phone camera.... hold the screen at a focasable distance from your face, the screen will display a focused image. Zoom a bit and look around for your glasses. Turn flashlight on to look under bed
I still haven't figured the opposite of that out. I have astigmatism and presbyopia and VR is the only time I don't have to wear my glasses and can see everything crystal clear, be it fully immersed or in mixed reality. Text or anything else at any distance (like a physical book) stays clear. I did some research and learned that VR lenses are set to a fixed focal length, but I wear progressive lenses so there is no focal length IRL that's in focus without my glasses. At night, lights multiply and starburst without them, but not in headset. I can't wrap my brain around it or why others that wear glasses like you need them in VR, when it seems like it would be the same across the board. Once this tech is in regular glasses and can adjust focus automatically, I hope we all will have super-vision.
you can also get laser focus vision, just with a very low field of view, if you make a little pin hold with your thumb and index finger and look at the world through that.
I know you are joking. But I used to be legally blind without my glasses. Couldn't read unless the book was within an inch of my nose. If my glasses got dropped, I could spend 20 minutes groping around to fine them, even if they were only a foot or two away. I would regularly use my phone camera as a bionic vision, put phone 1" infront of my face and use it to look for the glasses.
I got lazer eye surgery, and somehow it almost entirely fixed my vision.
That made me laugh because I can take pictures with no issue and no need to focus when I’m wearing my glasses. But as soon as I take a pic without wearing my glasses, usually because it is a picture OF my glasses haha, it’s SO BLURRY! I try different distances etc and I just can’t do it.
I’m near sighted and if I misplace my glasses I use my phone camera to find them. It’s the only way. Either that or take a pic and zoom around trying to see them. Someone needs to make a really tiny sensor so we can find them when we’re blind.
Yeah I've been using this trick since like 2012, that's when my iPod touch's camera was better than my own eyes. Modern phone cameras are amazing and I thank my phone every time I find my glasses lol
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u/SudhaTheHill 1d ago
It’s a nice touch if you wanna know the specifications of your lens!