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I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it

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Re: I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it

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Welcome to your new life. This upgrade is not optional and a reboot will not clear it. Tinnitus has many causes. Most of them are avoidable but some (antibiotics) less so. People's ability to internalise a coping mechanism also varies. My own ability rises and sets like the tide. Some days it's all encompassing and some days it's just the liveness check for the nuclear storage tank alarm which reassures me I'm not de…

Was seeing The Who in their prime worth the tinnitus?

Re: I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it

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I’ve played drums and loud music for a long time. When I pay close enough attention there’s this persistent, aggravating noise — which I sometimes call “silence”, and other times call “tinnitus”.

> which I sometimes call “silence”

I've had mild tinnitus as long as I can remember; my earliest memory of it must have been when I was about four years old. I suspect I've had it my entire life. When I was a child, I thought it was just something normal that everybody had. When I heard the Simon and Garfunkel song, "The Sound of Silence", I thought that was what they were talking about.

Re: I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it

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Why is the new style to avoid capitalization when writing? I see it everywhere now. I can only imagine the annoyance of fighting autocorrect just to format your content like this.

Kids doing weird shit to stand out, like every generation.

It makes reading harder, and with modern tools it certainly isn't any easier to write—with both those things working against it I doubt it'll stick around.

Re: I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it

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I’ve played drums and loud music for a long time. When I pay close enough attention there’s this persistent, aggravating noise — which I sometimes call “silence”, and other times call “tinnitus”.

I have constant tinnitus and sometimes it just "stops" for a bit (like on the order of a minute or two). When it does, the lack of a background noise is just.. unnerving. It's like something is missing.

Re: I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it

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I have had tinnitus for years, I suspect partly genetic and exacerbated by spending a lot of my 20s and 30s at loud concerts. But just recently I noticed I now have deafness to certain frequencies in one ear. I had an air leak a tire and realized I could hear the hiss of air escaping with one ear but not the other. Protect your ears, folks.

Re: I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it

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I’ve played drums and loud music for a long time. When I pay close enough attention there’s this persistent, aggravating noise — which I sometimes call “silence”, and other times call “tinnitus”.

> which I sometimes call “silence” I've had mild tinnitus as long as I can remember; my earliest memory of it must have been when I was about four years old. I suspect I've had it my entire life. When I was a child, I thought it was just something normal that everybody had. When I heard the Simon and Garfunkel song, "The Sound of Silence", I thought that was what they were talking about.

Are we talking about that thing you hear when in absolute silence in the dead of night? Is absolute silence even a thing?

Re: I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it

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Why is the new style to avoid capitalization when writing? I see it everywhere now. I can only imagine the annoyance of fighting autocorrect just to format your content like this.

The answer is simple: They turned off autocorrect.

With so many new, markup words everyday on social media ("enshittifcation" - i am looking at you), autocorrect can be annoying.

Keeping computer commands in notes also prompt me to turn off autocapitalisation

Once they are off, typing in lowercase is just natural

Re: I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it

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Why is the new style to avoid capitalization when writing? I see it everywhere now. I can only imagine the annoyance of fighting autocorrect just to format your content like this.

I don't know, but I find it quite unpleasant to read.

I hate it too. If you want to avoid capitalization, then at least go all caps like the Romans.

Re: I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it

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Had a huge scare after a concert a few years ago. My ears hurt and were very poor for a few days after. Very scary.

Luckily it went away. I wear ear protection all the time now. agree that there should be laws governing sound volume.

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