Ask HN: Anyone had LASIK and, while successful, still doesn't see "well"?

Re:Ask HN: Anyone had LASIK and, while successful, still doe... by Whitespace on Sunday March 04, 2012 @05:31PM (#3664358)

It might just be that you're getting older but sticking to font sizes for teenagers, so you should simply increase your font size.

I'm 29 and I wear contacts, even though glasses are better for computer work. I have a slight astigmatism in my left eye; so slight that it can't be corrected by contacts. As such, it strains my eyes to read tiny text. So what did I do? I bumped up my font size.

Let's use HN as an example. I'm on a 13" MacBook Air with a screen resolution of 1440x900. In Chrome I hit Command-Shift-+ four to five times to make the text comfortably readable. In Terminal, I use Anonymous Pro at 16-22 pt. I often use OS X's Ctrl-Zoom feature to make things bigger.

I use F.lux to change the white point all the way to tungsten (2700K) at night. Since I was a kid I constantly focus through objects towards the horizon to relax my muscles.

I do all of these things to help my eyes, because I strain them all day long looking at screens. And I'm still in my twenties!

So do yourself and your eyes a favor and make your text gigantic.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone had LASIK and, while successful, still doe... by smnv on Monday March 05, 2012 @01:08AM (#3665618)

Just want to add, that you shouldn't have full brightness and contrast on on your monitor in the daylight either. First thing I do with the new monitor is cut factory set brightness to half and then play with the contrast to make it comfortable. On some monitors you should want to cut brightness even more. At first it may seem not that comfortable, but after some time eye fatigue is much less.

Also, if you're using glasses, you need a little more brightness on your monitor.

And use correct light enviroment on your workplace! Side-facing light, the usual.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone had LASIK and, while successful, still doe... by manuelflara on Sunday March 04, 2012 @06:48PM (#3664625)

Hehe. Seems like I just wrote that comment. I'm in my twenties, constantly CMD+'+' to increase text size, use F.lux all the way to tungsten at night, use a 13" macbook pro (although have a 24" inch monitor).

The thing is, sometimes some text can't get bigger, so I tend to get closer to the screen, and my neck & back suffers.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone had LASIK and, while successful, still doe... by 13rules on Sunday March 04, 2012 @11:28PM (#3665416)

+1 for using F.lux (http://stereopsis.com/flux/) — started using this months ago and couldn't imagine going back ... the different is startling!

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone had LASIK and, while successful, still doe... by WalterSear on Monday March 05, 2012 @02:03AM (#3665727)

I just wish it went darker, or redder.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone had LASIK and, while successful, still doe... by ivank on Sunday March 11, 2012 @06:00PM (#3691416)

http://jonls.dk/redshift/ can go as red/dark as you want.

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