After about an hour of using the mouse or controller gaming, I have to take a few seconds to massage my hand because it gets sore and stiff.
Didn’t happen until I got into my 30’s 😔
Early 40s here, and carpal tunnel is finally kicking in
It’s interesting to me that I don’t see myself aging in the bathroom mirror…until I put on my glasses. Then it’s obvious. Also, I didn’t used to need glasses. But nature’s gaussian blur filter is awesome. My wife looks as good as the day I met her too!
Eyesight started going in mid 40s. Still not happy about it.
Damn, that’s a long run!
I had perfect vision for decades and then it suddenly went to shit. Found out there’s no preventing it, no lifestyle changes to make it better. It’s just gone. Presbyopia can’t be prevented or fixed. Feels bad, man.
Not replying to as many of these types of posts is one of them
If I sleep wrong I wake up in pain.
It takes me longer to recover from the consequences of playing ice hockey.
I got gout and shingles
New technology is harder to adopt.
I have this theory that, unless it’s an area of interest, professional or otherwise, you stop learning about tech when you leave school.
diminished eyesight, especially at night.
oh, and of course, making some references that some of the youngsters don’t understand.
(also, using the term “youngsters”)
I don’t distrohop or tinker with my Linux install anymore. I just install Linux Mint XFCE edition and don’t even bother changing the background.
20+ years ago i spent hours each day developing my own lcars interface based on enlightenment; now i just use whatever x-windows environment the distro i’m using at the moment defaults to.
we must be twins separated at birth. lol
Me too. But I stopped hopping ten years ago and settled down on Alpine, Void, or Gentoo, based on how fancy the hardware is, and the use case.
To me, the hopping part relates more to tinkering and fine-tuning. Today I prefer things just work. I wish no down time on all my devices and servers, because who has time to figure out why my photo doesn’t sync to my NAS, or dig up that piece of paper when my password manager does not respond because of the proxy service is down?
Tech also just isn’t advancing and changing as much as it was when we were younger so it’s not as exciting anymore
I don’t get that at all. To me it feels like there’s so much progress happening right now.
I don’t think this is true.
It’s not exciting to me any more because I hate the way it’s changing the world.
In the 2010s it felt like tech would save us.
I think it is stagnating. people having more access to technology based gadgets but the only thing that changed is earth abuse to support production of gadgets. So not only is it not saving us, it is literally killing us.
And when it does change it’s to enshittify it. It’s been a decade since I was excited about any new technology. I used to love it too.
Made breakfast this morning. Now my wrist hurts.
And sneezing then having a pain in your back from it.
Damn. I made tomorrow and tonight’s dinner. My back is fucked.
Good news: burgers+fries were tasty and I’m looking forward to the shepherd’s pie tomorrow.
They Might Be Older (Still)
This has become my theme song.
Honestly I’ve been getting much happier the less fucks I give.
Inverse correlation
This is the plus side of being older.
I’ve been burned enough times in life that it’s really easy to just write people off that I shouldn’t have let in my life anyway, and I’m much happier in my own little world with my books.
it does get marginally better once you do run out.
Children, which to me is everyone born in the 2005+ are already turning 20. Hell, the iPhone can already vote.
Btw I was born in 2004 and I’m 20
Also, Gangnam style. 13 years ago.
Too real. Not just holidays, weeks and months go by and it’s like “shit when did it get to 2025??”
COVID really did destroy the flow of time for me.
It’s still March… 2020
Are you also in your 30s? Haha
