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Post by goldenkey »

sj4nz wrote: post #188
goldenkey wrote: post #180

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As an optometrist with a deep knowledge on this subject, let me first say, the established edifice of eye care and laser eye surgery is an abomination that ruins lives. The advice your optometrist gave you is the information they were indoctrinated with and sadly, it's erroneous. What follows is my best synopsis on what is wrong with the industry, what causes worsening vision, and what you can do to resolve your visi…

SEIKO Vision by their website does not appear to be available in the United States (no providers are listed in their directory)-- do you happen to know anything equivalent available there?

Seiko's US website has some PDFs if you do some searching but the JP website is a far better resource, and the products are international for the most part. [1]

You can read about the double aspherics here:

https://www.2020mag.com/article/double-asphericity-a-freefor...

[1] https://www.seiko-optical.com/fileadmin/media/marketing_shop...

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Post by goldenkey »

csdvrx wrote: post #204
goldenkey wrote: post #180

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As an optometrist with a deep knowledge on this subject, let me first say, the established edifice of eye care and laser eye surgery is an abomination that ruins lives. The advice your optometrist gave you is the information they were indoctrinated with and sadly, it's erroneous. What follows is my best synopsis on what is wrong with the industry, what causes worsening vision, and what you can do to resolve your visi…

Wow, it's the first time ever I see a confirmation that the weird approach I followed (mostly due to mistrust and weird teen ideas that the body might adapt) and worked on me has scientific bases and could work for others too and from an optometrist! TYSM for speaking out!!!

No problem, I'm glad you didn't get caught in the cycle!

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Post by goldenkey »

germinalphrase wrote: post #191
goldenkey wrote: post #180

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As an optometrist with a deep knowledge on this subject, let me first say, the established edifice of eye care and laser eye surgery is an abomination that ruins lives. The advice your optometrist gave you is the information they were indoctrinated with and sadly, it's erroneous. What follows is my best synopsis on what is wrong with the industry, what causes worsening vision, and what you can do to resolve your visi…

The premise of this post is that (most?) optometrists are ‘doing it wrong’ - so is there any way for a layperson to vet the quality of an optometrist beyond their basic credentials?

Most optometrists are fine when it comes to diagnosing eye health. They have equipment that largely aids them in those diagnostics.

For myopia, there's really not much you can do other than ask them their approach to vision correction. For example, do they recommend multiple pairs of glasses for different activities? If they don't, you can immediately cull them or you can use them as a service and give them instructions. Doctors ultimately serve you, and if you want a couple scripts, minor corrections removed, etc. these aren't groundbreaking demands they'll reject.

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Post by goldenkey »

jmull wrote: post #189
goldenkey wrote: post #180

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As an optometrist with a deep knowledge on this subject, let me first say, the established edifice of eye care and laser eye surgery is an abomination that ruins lives. The advice your optometrist gave you is the information they were indoctrinated with and sadly, it's erroneous. What follows is my best synopsis on what is wrong with the industry, what causes worsening vision, and what you can do to resolve your visi…

I'm calling bullshit on most of this. You're making a lot of strong claims that are unsupported or even counterfactual. E.g.: > Most cases of myopia (nearsightness), involving progressively worsening vision, are largely due to inaccurate lens prescriptions. Interesting idea, but what do you have to support this provocative claim? You argument about minor corrections isn't even logical, which makes me doubt your judge…

I don't have a list of references ready for these kinds of debates but the information is out there if you even do a cursory glance. The Japanese have been the most vigilant in doing research on myopia. [1]

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32740040/

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Post by xoffeemuffins23 »

shepherdjerred wrote: post #116
bubblethink wrote: post #25

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Is there any friendly alternative to these home automation things ? I would like to try some stuff but I don't want to spend a weekend creating vlans or fighting google play services, alexa etc.

I used Google Home for a while, but honestly it was a pretty bad experience as time went on. I've used Home Assistant[0] for the last 8-9 months. It works great and has support for every device I used with Google Home. It also has bridges so that you can still use Alexa, Siri, or Google Assistant for voice commands if you want that. The mobile app is good enough. It isn't as user friendly as Google Home, but it's not…

Using a zig-a-zig-ah stick in combination with a raspberry pi 3/4 running zigbee2mqtt is surprisingly stable, compared to the slightly cheaper alternatives [0] and works quite okay in combination with home assistant.

But to be honest I'll be looking into getting a Home Assistant Yellow as well as this seems to be easier.

[0]: https://electrolama.com/projects/zig-a-zig-ah/

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Post by skunkworker »

sumedh wrote: post #50
sc00ty wrote: post #26

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I've replaced almost all the bulbs in my house with the 800 lumen white & color hue bulbs and find them plenty bright. However, they recently came out with 1600 lumen (16W/100W equiv.) bulbs which doubles the lumens of the standard ones. I haven't tried them but I'm hoping to soon.

Didnt know about the 1600 lumen version, looks like its not in stock in Australia. The hue 800 ones were noticeably darker compared to the Lifx so I went with Lifx, this was many years back.

The 1600 lumen ones are a game changer if your light fixture only has 2 sockets. I used to have 2 800s and swapped them for 2x1600s, significantly better, and if they ever came out with a 2000+ lumen bulb I would pick it up.

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Post by knolan »

eropple wrote: post #194
knolan wrote: post #152

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I’ve a couple of LIFX bulbs in my home. I paired them directly to the Apple HomeKit Home app and never bothered with LIFX‘a app. They’ve been 99% reliable for me for about three years now. I don’t know if I’m lucky or that avoiding their app was worth it.

In my experience this is more reliable, but there's something off about the color temperature selections available within the Home app. LIFX bulbs have less than great color to begin with (their warm whites feel sickly and sallow), but it has the same problem with Hue. I end up setting colors within the Hue or LIFX app and then going "the color that is currently set" in Home. So not using their app has drawbacks too.

I’m not too sensitive to the particular colour and my kids usually just want a disco.

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Post by pineconewarrior »

Someone1234 wrote: post #42
pineconewarrior wrote: post #10

Absolutely, absolutely agree. Out of all of the things I own, the little monitor-top lightbar I have is at the top of my list for cost-to-life-benefit ratio. If I forget to turn it on I always why I feel so gloomy. Seriously get one, even if your lighting is otherwise nice.

I don't understand what this accomplishes? Monitors produce their own light, with the brightness being adjustable. Including local dimming zones or per-pixel zones in OLEDs. The only benefit I can see is if you cannot touch type and need to see your hands, but isn't key lighting the normal solution to that problem? PS - I used to work with someone that needed the overhead light on to see their LCD monitor better. I'm…

It illuminates your desk area and reduces eye strain an unbelievable amount. Try one and you will see!

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Post by pineconewarrior »

eblanshey wrote: post #19
pineconewarrior wrote: post #10

Absolutely, absolutely agree. Out of all of the things I own, the little monitor-top lightbar I have is at the top of my list for cost-to-life-benefit ratio. If I forget to turn it on I always why I feel so gloomy. Seriously get one, even if your lighting is otherwise nice.

Do you have a link to the lightbar you have?

I got the xiaomi version. I have an even cheaper one at my alternate workspace and it still works fantastic

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Post by elabajaba »

kmos17 wrote: post #164
elabajaba wrote: post #103

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As someone who had Lifx due to them not needing a controller, don't buy them their software sucks. It worked fine for months at a time, but would then decide it no longer wanted to obey commands and you'd have to re-pair it, which usually took 30 minutes and 5 failed attempts where it would fail during the setup process after resetting the bulb. Their bulbs also sometimes just ignored commands, so you'd have to just…

In my experience the ikea bulbs are also awful, constant unpairing requiring multiple attempts to re-pair with the remote, especially if you have multiple bulbs in close proximity. In the end I gave up and just use them as normal bulbs. It would be a nice setup if it worked though, having a dedicated remote control is much more convenient than using a phone imo.

Damn, I was hoping they'd be a good hue alternative because I don't want to pay hue prices. I was looking at nanoleaf as they're using Thread, but they don't have any basic bridges (only homekit, eero, or one of their rgb wall panel things, none of which are things I want) and won't speak Matter.

At this point I feel like I might as well wait for Matter bridges to come out this fall, as hopefully companies will refresh their product lines then and we'll get some better quality lights.

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