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Cake day: June 29th, 2025
  • I really need prescription lenses for the Frame, but am hesitating on which to buy.

    Zenni is Steam’s recommendation, and was out of stock immediately, with no communication on future availability.

    VR Optician seems like a safe choice quality wise, but it’s 3-4 weeks fabrication, then shipping from Germany and clearing customs. Also the most expensive option, but I want quality lenses and would be willing to pay appropriately. I’m just also impatient.

    AMVR is on version 2. AMVR version 1 is the only lens I can find a review of, and it wasn’t favorable. The frames for the lenses for both versions are 3D printed, and apparently don’t mount very securely. I have a fairly large astigmatism in my dominant eye, so the lens potentially rotating a bit from where it is supposed to be is a significant downside.

    VR-rock is suspicious. Using some pics from the quest, and not very clear about how they are mounted. For other headsets they have a magnetically mounted lens option, which I would go for, but it looks like that isn’t available for the Frame, at least right now.

    Anybody who has already gotten a pair of Rx lenses?

  • I never said don’t question it, I said it shouldn’t be that way! But it is that way right now, and we are responsible for how our actions affect others, even in an unfair system.

    I agree with everything you’re saying, but you going to the restaurant and not tipping hurts the server, not the owner. They spend time and effort for basically nothing in return, and even if you disagree with the system in place you are still using it to get cheaper food (because resteraunt costs are subsidized by tips to staff) at the expense of someone who in most cases can’t afford it.

    It you want to hurt the owner in the short term, don’t go.

    Eventually of course this means less serving jobs, again hurting the server.

    So the best option is getting rid of tipped minimum wage. Easier said than done, but it’s the only real way to fix this.

  • Well, tolerate the side eye and be willing to screw over someone trying to pay their bills. Whether tipping should be the standard practice (it shouldn’t) is a separate issue. The general expected practice is that you will tip, and tips are effectively a server’s whole wage. It’s not an easy or pleasant job. Going to a sit down restaurant with the intention not to tip, to make someone work for you basically for free, just makes you an asshole. Until we get rid of tipped minimum wage.