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Originally Posted by covingtoncat73
I'm 44 and feel like I'm already falling apart. It is depressing.
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Try my kind of vision. On some days I actually wish I'd been blind from birth so I wouldn't have to bother with seeing stuff at all. Or trying to work at a computer 8 hours a day for that matter; choosing IT as my career because I was good at it 15 years ago was the worst choice of my life. But what did I know, that fads such as tiny, light grey ultra-thin print on websites and in software would become the norm? In 'my time' (god, I feel old), a 1024x768 or 1280x1024 screen at 19 or 21 inch was actually usable.
Nowadays, software often barely fits in 1920x1080. My laptop runs at 150%, and the screen effectively is 1280x720... where my 10 year old laptop was 1280x800 at 100%. Yes, the newer laptop is technically sharper, but back then, software and websites actually WORKED WELL in a 1280x800 space.
Right now, I'm -just- on the verge of being able to function normally without any special assistance (except glasses and close placement of computer monitors and such), but it takes an ungodly amount of energy just to be able to see things.
I'm trying to get back into classical music again... and the one thing I'm finding out (again) is that publishers *STILL* print sheet music as if paper is horribly expensive. 12-14 lines of music on an A4 page is the norm.... and because it 'looks good', they use small noteheads and thin lines.
The best editions with regard to readability are the (old) Schirmer ones. Big, fat notes, 10 lines per page... but with regard to expression printed in the music, they're bad. They change music to how it should have been according to their editor, instead of just printing the composer's score.