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Is this a truthful article by BBC: BBC News - Living outside the hearing world ? It says that CI is a partial fix for some people and no fix for the remainder. Is that a good way to put it? I communicate with two people at work and that is working fine with me. I do not need HA and it only...

I come from Sweden and I have lived four years of my life in England (Bristol and London). Now, I live in Ireland. Welcome to AD. :wave:

It is just fine otherwise. The first 10 years after buying my first glasses, I had to change the glass every 12 months. It was partly due to that, Kubuntu (Ubuntu with the KDE graphical environment) is my distribution of choice. Nowadays, I have a 16 inch "block of concrete" laptop, a...

Oh, welcome by the way. I forgot to say that. :wave:

You are damn right. I loved learning foreign languages in school (I am HOH and can hear just about) but then it turns out that there are lots of rules in society - both informal and formal - which are not easy to learn on one's own. It turned out that I can read but not "speak" (i.e. hear...

Diagnosed at the age of 4, df since birth probably.

Yes, but Macs are pricy so they are not meant to be used by everyone. I bought a Macbook with a 13 inch screen 5 years ago. I could not read after a while and my eyes started aching. A return to PC with a 15 inch screen one year later solved the issue. BTW, I am not a Windows person but a...

The US is big: rather half a continent than a country, from a certain point of view.

It is always lovely to see new people here at AD. Welcome to this place. :wave:

I come from there, so I can tell you that are largely right. Some winters we barely have any snow in the far south. In the north, there is always lots of snow. I have experienced 1.3 m in central Sweden. That is a lot. I am waiting to hear what the Canadians are going to say. :wave:

I used to wear HA. I did not really feel like I needed it. Once there are CI implants that are at least as good as the real stuff and you can turn them on and off for enjoying solitude, I am gonna get them. They should be to human hearing, what the Hubble telescope is as compared to human vision.

Welcome to AD. :wave: I live on the other side of the Atlantic. Nice meeting you.

I used to wear a hearing aid in one ear (50% hearing in one ear, deaf in the other) when I was a kid and sometimes as a teenager. It did never really suit me so I wore it increasingly less. My hearing has not changed much since my teenage years so I never had to change my mind either. Choose...

Hello! Welcome to AD! Good luck with learning SL if that is what you want to do.

I am exactly the same: reading the news (NY Times (delete your cookies from NYT to avoid paying), BBC, The Guardian, Time, Newswek, The Daily Telegraph - you name) and science (Scientific American, New Scientist, Edge (Edge : Conversations on the edge of human knowledge), TED (TED: Ideas worth...