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Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by adzm »

tecleandor wrote: post #77
jefftk wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At least in the US that would be much cheaper: I can get high index (1.74) lenses for +$75: https://www.zennioptical.com/glasses-lenses (so the overall glasses are ~$100)

I have a Zenni pair, I think they are 1.74 and around -6 correction in each eye. They are really cheap compared to other places, but they have very high chromatic aberration on the sides and I don't thing they are perfectly centered. I think it's something that's more noticeable when you need relatively high power lenses.

It's good to have a high quality pair from a local shop so you have something to compare Zenni or other online shops to. YMMV of course, but I've had good experiences with Zenni, and only had one pair out of dozens for my family that had issues (seemed to be uncentered or had the PD incorrect), and that was over 5 years ago.

It's nice being able to grab a cheap pair of glasses for activities where there is a high probability of them getting damaged or lost, and having a backup pair handy. The reduced mental load of not having to worry is worth it!

Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by frosted-flakes »

Jasper_ wrote: post #11
blakesterz wrote: post #4

This title is missing a word: "How I Clean my Glasses" I half expected a post where someone brags about cleaning glasses. HOW I clean my glasses is pretty interesting for those of us who wear them. Mine are just ALWAYS dirty, I don't know what the heck I keep doing to them.

HN has a strict "don't editorialize article titles" policy, backed by a bot that automatically editorializes article titles for you. It's great.

The bot removes common clickbait words ("How to...", "12 reasons to...", etc.), and you can change it back if it's not warranted.

Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by eigenrick »

I tend to enjoy sports and manual labor, so end up sweating all over my glasses a few times a week. Because of this, the oil removal process is the piece in which I'm most interested.

I have used a glass cleaner spray bottle (which was methanol) when that ran out, I just refilled it with 95% ethanol (grain alcohol) and it seems to be fine.

I am curious about RoR and its chemical makeup. Is it that different than an alcohol?

Re: How I clean my glasses

#104

Post by l8arrival »

jackspratts wrote: post #66

Hotest water you can stand. Blast copious amount over lenses, both sides. This removes some grease and large grit. Put several drops of detergent on finger tip and rub onto thumb tip. Using thumb and finger coat detergent onto both sides of both lenses then rub gently. A few seconds is all you need. This removes all remaining oils and suspends any remaining grit preventing friction scratches during cleaning. Rinse le…

This is really bad advice, about hot water. When I was in New Zealand once, where you sometimes still encounter faucets with a separate hot water and cold water tap, I accidentally ran my glasses through the very hot water coming out of the hot water tap and it completely destroyed the coating on the lenses, it was as if I had run sandpaper over them.

The water only needs to be lukewarm. i.e. rinse glasses with lukewarm water, then get a drop of dish soap on fingers and rub fingers through a bit more water to dilute the soap, then gently scrub the lenses as you describe, and then rinse the glasses again with lukewarm water. Almost all the water will sheet off.

Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by effingwewt »

mmh0000 wrote: post #20

This article describes way too much OCD and wasted time. Here's my solution: * Buy 4x pairs cheapish glasses from Zenni. * Beat the crap out of them. * Replace as needed.

I quite literally just got my first pair of glasses (bi-focals, no less!) yesterday, at the age of 41.

This whole article and thread has been super helpful, but I have to say thanks so much for the Zenni tip!

I was on that site all of 5 minutes before rushing to make an account.

The pages are super easy to read and informative, they tell me instantly whether the frames can go with bifocals and whatnot.

It even helped search by face type and let me do a virtual try-on.

In person places here all seemed hell-bent on upselling me, seemed to be bothered by my questions, and the prices were outrageous!

So now I can buy several cheap pairs, see which I like and then buy several copies to have stored for when I inevitably break my first pair.

I almost never say this these days but holy shit was I impressed all around!

Reading what people do for clean glasses (and as a person with OCD who sometimes gets infuriatingly distracted by the little shapes on my eyeball, much less dirty/scratched lenses), I was already not looking forward to needing these things.

Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by dang »

Jasper_ wrote: post #11
blakesterz wrote: post #4

This title is missing a word: "How I Clean my Glasses" I half expected a post where someone brags about cleaning glasses. HOW I clean my glasses is pretty interesting for those of us who wear them. Mine are just ALWAYS dirty, I don't know what the heck I keep doing to them.

HN has a strict "don't editorialize article titles" policy, backed by a bot that automatically editorializes article titles for you. It's great.

Don't confuse "edit" with "editorialize". Editorializing is editing a title to put one's own spin on it.

HN's actual rule isn't hard to find—it's in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, which is linked at the bottom of every page and which commenters here ought to be familiar with. This is what it says: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

Note that "unless".

Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by dang »

mttjj wrote: post #8
blakesterz wrote: post #4

This title is missing a word: "How I Clean my Glasses" I half expected a post where someone brags about cleaning glasses. HOW I clean my glasses is pretty interesting for those of us who wear them. Mine are just ALWAYS dirty, I don't know what the heck I keep doing to them.

Pretty sure this is an automated word removal action by the HN submission form. There've been threads about the words that are filtered out by default. It comes down to trying to make titles less clickbait-y. Though I do agree that "How" does provide some important context in this case.

Yes, sometimes it doesn't work at all. Most of the time it does. A mod has fixed this one.

Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by nunez »

this reminded me of how thankful i was to finally find contacts that work for me. glasses are annoying (to me).

it took ten years, lots of disappointment, and an old-school OD doing a number on my eyes after an allergic reaction to contact lens cleaner, but it was one of the best things to happen in 2021.

(I use Acuvue Oasys toric dailies.)

Re: How I clean my glasses

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Post by dang »

teddyh wrote: post #17
Jasper_ wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN has a strict "don't editorialize article titles" policy, backed by a bot that automatically editorializes article titles for you. It's great.

And sometimes titles are editorialized manually: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31396861&p=2#31397151 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31638648#31643597

Those titles weren't editorialized. They were edited in keeping with HN's title rule, which calls for editing titles when they are either misleading or clickbait.

I realize it's annoying when there's an edit that you don't agree with—and I would never claim that we get every case correct. But HN's overall approach to titles is one of the easiest things to defend about the entire site. It makes an enormous difference to the quality of the front page.

Edit: you can't compare "HN as it is" to "HN as it is, but without the title edits I dislike". That's not a possible alternative. The alternative is "HN without the current title policy", and that would be a front page inundated with linkbait and sensationalism—exactly what most people come here to avoid.

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