I think this is the kind of heart monitor you get if you have heart concerns. For example, a few months ago I had an experience that might have been a heart attack. When I told my doctor, they recommended wearing a heart monitor for two weeks to identify any problems.

I wasn’t instructed to write down any details. Instead, the monitor came with a phone with a locked down app. If I experienced symptoms, I would press a button on the monitor attached to my chest, then choose the symptoms on the app (high HR, chest pressure, lightheadedness, nausea, etc.) There was a section for notes, but it was optional.

I can see an argument being made for it being invasive, but it’s not mandatory and, at least from my experience, you don’t have to provide any information you don’t want to (though you probably should for a proper diagnosis).

I haven’t yet had my follow-up appointment, but I very much doubt the cardiologist has any interest in anything that is not directly relevant to your evaluation.

Well this was just depressing.

I had my windows replaced … Last year, I think? That detail doesn’t really matter.

I always knew that normal windows negate any attempt at security, but it was still unnerving to visually confirm that they are easily removed, fragile barriers filling what are just holes in my wall.

Hey, don’t judge until you’ve tried bowling without hands.

I didn’t know Homer was on lemmy. That’s pretty awesome actually.

“World view” is very fitting here.

I personally know one person who uses light theme.

He says that he prefers light theme with the brightness turned all the way down.

It’s good that it works for him, but that’s not my way.

The part of that book I remember after all these years is that at one point his parents were like “fine” and moved in with him. I read it when I was young enough to not realize it was fictitious, but that part always seemed odd to me.

I didn’t know (until I opened your wiki link just now) that there were sequels.

My work gave me a Mac with this. I absolutely hated it - constantly triggering random things I didn’t want or need and apparently something about the wiring caused the physical keyboard to fail prematurely.

Fortunately we’ve moved on from those dark days. I still have to use a Mac, but at least there’s no touch bar.

I’ve recently learned that having under two hours between eating and laying down strongly increases your risk of heartburn.

I’m amused that Watchmen is described as “original reference” here.

Why do prisons use Windows?

Because it always locks up.

My dad also got less irritable after. Before he got them, he got in a few (fairly slight) arguments with my mom due to him perceiving her as saying nonsense things - because he couldn’t hear the context. Unfortunately, my mom died before he got the hearing aids, but he definitely always loved her and the arguments stayed minor and surrounded by good connections. He fairly doted on her most of the time.

He lived for a long time after getting them and it was good to see, as you said, his QoL improvements.

I never had the issue you’re describing, but I think that’s in part because he could largely function with his limited hearing and mostly kept the aids off or on low settings. I’m glad you’re able to deal with the inconvenience!

When I’ve heard “tatty,” it’s been short for “tattered.” Like “threadbare.” However, as you said, from context I assume that’s not what’s meant here.

I don’t mind ticking (up to a certain point), but my Dad used to have in his garage an analog clock that not only ticked but also had extremely audible whirring sounds. They were associated (I assume) with the gearing. Again, it never really bothered me - I didn’t spend much time in the garage and I’m pretty sure that clock had been around longer than I had (which is probably why it was so noisy). I was accustomed to it.

However, I remember the day my dad got hearing aids. One of the first things he observed was how noisy the clock was, asking if it had always been that way.

My dad spent a lot of time in his garage. Pretty sure that clock didn’t last out the week.

I would like to know the function of the grey circle in the bottom left. Initially I thought it was a button but now I’m thinking it’s a microphone.

Also a Jonathan Coulton song.

I have a small, unexplained cut in the middle of the back of my head. (My theory is that someone snuck in and did brain surgery on me while I was napping the other day.) It doesn’t hurt or anything and I can’t see it - I’m mostly only aware of it when the hot water hits it during a shower.

Because of this, I have been mostly forgetting it’s there … Except when something brushes or bumps it and makes it itchy, when I reach up to scratch at it without even fully realizing.

Then I really struggle with this impulse.

This kind of folding also seems okay.

I hadn’t, either, before I started visiting this town.