IngeniousRocks (They/She)

And for the same reasons folks got hooked on old reddit, folks get hooked on Lemmy (its me I’m folks please unplug me from the machine I can’t log out)

I like freetube ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Hiya! Former optician here!

Have you taken your progressives in to have them adjusted or aligned?

Progressive lenses must be fitted in the perfect spot in front of your eyes to give you the best possible vision.

Once fitted correctly, they mimic the way your focus changes naturally by applying +power as you progress further down the lens, basically shifting towards spherical shape to “magnify” a bit, the same way the muscles in your eyes bend your inner lens to do the same!

In order to use them efficiently:

Folks tend to point their nose slightly downward as they view distance, keep this in mind as your distance section is at the top!

When looking near people tend to slightly cross their eyes and look down towards their nose! This is why the bottom of the lens feels stronger, its where you’re expected to read through.

Midrange is the tough one to nail. I recommend holding a piece of paper with text at arms length in front of you, find the spot where its perfect and slowly drag it from that spot to where you’d prefer to read. This will help to train your eyes to follow that track to vary the focus.

Dont give up! I usually recommend giving your lenses a few weeks to adjust to a new style of lens.

Remember though, while they may be difficult to use at first, your vision should be perfect when they do work, getting them to work 100% of the time is the part that takes effort.

FreeTube is a FOSS youtube frontend.

FreeTube occasionally has issues on videos with preroll ads where the video fails to play because the ad won’t be fetched. This can sometimes be mitigated by running an ipv6 rotator script and blocking freetubes access to ipv4. The one I run reassigns my ipv6 address once every 5 seconds to a new randomly generated valid address.

Sometimes even this doesn’t block the ads (again causing the video to fail to play) in which case selecting the share icon from the freetube interface and clicking “open invidious link” will open a web browser pointed to whichever invidious instance is set to your default.

The freetube folks are working on implementing DASH, which should eliminate the need for these workarounds once successful.

FreeTube with an ipv6 rotator and Invidious will make sure you never have to deal with this.