What are the signs you've noticed that you're getting older?
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I got excited about a sale on toilet paper. It was 50% off for 30 rolls of the really high quality one!
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Me too. But I stopped hopping ten years ago and settled down on Alpine, Void, or Gentoo, based on how fancy the hardware is, and the use case.
To me, the hopping part relates more to tinkering and fine-tuning. Today I prefer things just work. I wish no down time on all my devices and servers, because who has time to figure out why my photo doesn't sync to my NAS, or dig up that piece of paper when my password manager does not respond because of the proxy service is down?
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My (slightly) balding head.
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I tore the fuck out of my shoulder and had to have extensive repair surgery done. When I was talking to my physical therapist about a specific aspect of the repair, he said that they tended to do that with "older" people.
Ouch.
Also, I guess that my goal of looking like 2016 Rich Piana has now morphed to looking like 2018 Rich Piana.
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Having to do something on a weekday evening is a huge inconvenience.
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Ah but you're not really a proper old guy until you get a bidet and start bitching about how medieval everyplace you go is that doesn't have one.
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I stepped out of a van wrong and completely tore my acl and mcl and partially tore my lcl (basically, fucked up my knee).
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Do you have to calculate it now though? I have to go let's see, I was born in the year… It used to be innate knowledge.
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Tech also just isn't advancing and changing as much as it was when we were younger so it's not as exciting anymore
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My wife and I get excited every time we come across articles about exoskeleton tech. Can we expedite this a little? I want a mech suit—not a fucking wheelchair—when I reach that age.
Also, a note to the designers: make sure you can use the toilet with it. Extrapolating current trends, I suspect this will become one of my primary activities.
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While listening to the oldies radio station and hearing music that was popular while you were in high school
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I like this comment the best. These points are all true, undeniable. Aging is funny cause you never can tell how old someone is.
I work at a liquor store with a college feel and holy shit I card everyone!!
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Stuff hurts more than it used to.
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COVID really did destroy the flow of time for me.
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I don't get that at all. To me it feels like there's so much progress happening right now.
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Hungovers last longer, so do injuries from sport, easier to put on weight, less patience for bullshit, more selective with whom I spend my time with... There are so many!
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Weirdly enough I got way better at night driving post-40.
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I don't think this is true.
It's not exciting to me any more because I hate the way it's changing the world.
In the 2010s it felt like tech would save us.
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- At 30 you reach the peak.
- At 40 you start to have small health problems that don't go away and are mostly annoyance.
- At 50 you seek help because it's more than annoyance. You get your first permanent medication.
- At 60 it's somewhat limiting and for the first time causing Intermediate pain.
- At 70 it's debilitating and pain is a familiar companion. You might have your first seizures.
- At 80 if it hasn't killed you yet, it soon will. You are probably an invalid or close to it.
- At 90 if you are still hanging on, you are waiting for death and welcoming it.
That's pretty much it, ±10 years.
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Ain't it brutal? They say if you haven't started balding at age 40, you probably never will, but I've known several people with a full head of lush hair at 40, and in their early fifties, it's all gone to hell.
