If you haven't, get your vision tested by a good optometrist.
I had an unknown-to-me astigmatism with otherwise perfect vision. I hadn't seen an eye doctor in (ever?) so I don't know when it started.
I didn't notice I was having the problems you describe until I got some corrective lenses to use only when I'm on the computer. Blew my mind.
Re:Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers
by bluGill on Thursday December 02, 2021 @04:18PM
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I did. He told me that I just have the normal symptoms of getting old. I miss my 20s when I could read tiny text on a 19inch screen (CRT). Now I magnify everything, 250% really messages with a lot of websites, but at least I can read. (I'm writing this on a pinebook pro, so the screen is not large to begin with)
Re:Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers
by tombert on Thursday December 02, 2021 @02:21PM
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I wear glasses/contact lenses already, so I get my eyes checked regularly. I've had pretty bad eyesight since I was nine years old, and an astigmatism in my left eye since I was at least nineteen. Theoretically at least, my contact lenses correct for it.
I honestly don't think it's a vision issue though; I don't have issues identifying the letters, and I don't have trouble reading the words or parsing sentences, I seem to have a lot of trouble keeping track of which line I'm on when I'm reading stuff with relatively small font. When I have large font, I don't have this issue, and I can read relatively quickly without a ton of issues.
Having a 50" TV lets me sit pretty far away from the screen and also gives me plenty of room to put a million applications next to each other which (at least for me) helps me avoid being distracted. I also have a lot of issues reading small text [1], so having a big screen allows me to make the text gigantic while not sacrificing a ton of screen real estate.
It's honestly great; if I ever am forced to work in an office again, I'm going to insist that the company purchase me the equipment for a similar setup.
[1] I'm reasonably certain that I'm not dyslexic, but I do find that reading off a screen is substantially easier for me when I use extremely big text. This is part of the reason most my book reading is either on the Kindle or the large-print vision-impaired versions of books.