Man when you said "as I got older" I thought you meant like 50+

I do agree with your parts to help, being an well lit room is a big one. One aspect that helps me as well is making sure I get enough sleep. I find I squint more at the screen later in the day the worse my sleep has been.

Crazy, I went to boarding school 2009-2011 and our dinner hall was always loud with talking and laughter. However sometimes it would slowly get quieter until the room went silent with everyone looking oddly at each other, then a massive wave of laughter would erupt.

Some weird phenomenon.

I also remember downloading Froggy jump on my iPhone and playing it with friends, but you certainly put your phone away more than you do now. You also had it taken off of you if you were on it when you shouldn't have been. If my parents found out they took my phone off of me, they'd probably crack it at me because I wasn't paying attention. I get the feeling many parents might just get angry at the teacher rather than their child.

It's also difficult to build social skills if your peers around you are stuck looking down at their phones as opposed to looking at those around them.

If you're wanting to meet new people and chat with new people but a large chunk of them are sitting on their phones it makes it more difficult.

The difference is what while you're waiting to get your tracking number, I've already driven down the road and come back with the item I could've bought online, that I also purchased based on reviews and Youtube videos I watched the night before.

That hour + car + insurance + gas has a real cost.

I genuinely despise Amazon as a company, but factually I can order something by 9pm and pick it up from my doorstep after I sleep in.

I honestly don't think either approach is particularly great for the planet or our humanity, but Prime is popular for a good reason.

I appreciate that and you're right.

My point is to highlight for the original commenter that whilst buying online is incredibly useful, has more variety and in some a number of cases is cheaper due to being able to shop around. Having a central store like a Micro center has enormous value, there's not many of them around.

For me in Australia, I certainly cannot order something at 9pm and have it at my doorstep in the morning. Nor do we have any places like Microcenter with such variety. Genuinely if I wanted to go into a store to check the size of a particular PC case, I can't do that because there aren't any around and I live in a state capital city.

Not a great comparison, record stores sell exactly that, just records and each record uses the same player to play. They're not going to let you unwrap a $2000 graphics card, but they might let you touch a mouse you're looking to buy. There are clear differences here where not everything at these stores is just their shrink wrapped boxes, but are often on display, its all all black and white.

There's nothing stopping people from doing all of their Youtube research then walking into their Microcenter and buying it in person.

Its not like PC gamers who often use online stores have just forgotten to do any prior research when buying in store as opposed to online. So yeah I would do loads of research, then I'd go instore and buy it and look at what else they have on offer.

100% agree, Aussie here too. I've spent most of my life only buying PC parts online because everywhere else has such limited stock of anything.

The upside is that if you need a particular thing, you can go buy it immediately, not only that you can actually see the product and potential try to a degree before buying it.

For me, its seeing cases in person and being able to see how they compare for size rather than trying to estimate online.

As someone in Australia where we have pretty poor computer electronics stores for PC parts, this place is like heaven on earth.

To you its an introverts nightmare, but clearly for many geeks its not who are lining up.

Case evaluation is a strong argument!

I generally think of myself as immune to impulse/window shopping, but if I walked by a Fractal North case for the first time, I would prove myself wrong.

Looking at the photos its a shitload more than just cables and adapters

Interesting and importantly both groups were those who had insomnia and those who had previously been diagnosed with heart failure were excluded.

Anecdotally we started using these dishwasher sheets and the dishwasher started erroring during the cycle and also leaked slightly. On observation when it errored it looked very foamy inside.

Simply changing back to powder completely stopped the error and the leaking and this was in a 1 year old dishwasher