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Before I was diagnosed, I was wondering how people can see street signs this far and how can they use such a small font. Anything smaller then 14pt for me was not legible. So I was always running things zoomed in (ff was set to %120 zoom for example).

Now that I have glasses, I wear them mainly when I'm going outside, especially when driving - I can see signs (and not miss a turn even with navigation!) and incoming cars in the night are not that blinding.

I still don't wear my glasses when working, but now I consciously zoom everything in (or run big fonts) so I don't have to squint or stare at things. I do find dark themes a little bit better cause it doesn't have the whole screen lighting up, but maybe I should experiment with light themes again. For nvim specifically, where I spend a bunch of time, I use molokai dark theme with menlo for powerline as a font.



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