Personally i avoid visible branding, and at that point you can just go with whatever frame you like. Investing in high quality lenses is much better spent money in my experience, lightweight+deglared+extra thin lenses make a world of difference for comfortable wearing over longer time for me.
Apparently when you get Ray Ban frames for prescription glasses, you can pay extra to have the Ray Ban logo engraved on them. So if you see someone with prescription glasses with the Ray Ban logo, you can lose a little more respect for them.
I used to like Ray Bans, too. Then Luxotica bought them and they've never got any on my money since. I buy exclusively from Costco because they only sell non-Luxotica brand glasses for significantly cheaper.
Prescription sunglasses look identical to aviators, at a fraction of the price.
Why? Smart glasses are stupid and no one should be buying them. They are a scam and another form of constant surveillance and recording. Only now with more accurate face recognition. All hail the future police state.
Sadly, they are expensive, but they look good and have great quallity in my experience.
As for glasses, five years ago, I got my first Lindberg glasses, and I am never going back to other brands.
I am currently on my third pair of black Lindberg Aaron and my current sunnies are a pair of gunmetal Persol PO1027S with custom brown lenses.
I have all of my pervious Lindberg frames and will start reusing them next time, as for the Persol, I lost my earlier pair of an earlier model of Persol sunglasses, but I plan on getting new models or a new pair of the same model to have some spares or variation.
This bait-and-switch bullshit has gone way too far and I hope the few dozen socialists that get elected this fall really wreck this shit for the billionaires and force regulation.
I am kind of into the idea of having a little screen on the peripheral of my glasses for a heads up display as an interface with my phone. Or even as a full screen mirror for my phone to be able to browse lemmy or watch video while still keeping an eye on my surrounding. I really can't imagine why they decided they also needed to have it record everyone secretly.
The google glass design was pretty cool, sans camera. Iirc people were modifying them I think? Wonder how hard it would be to remove the camera. Probably soldered directly to the board. You could always try to make your own with some form of transparent screen
Usually one would wait til their product take over the market before enshitifying it. For this one, they don't even have a feasible market. Who am I to judge tho.
39 Comments
red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 168 pts · 44d
Expected asshole behavior from Meta and zero sympathy to people who buy that trash.
pcouy@lemmy.pierre-couy.fr · 38 pts · 44d
I was about to type pretty much the exact same thing, but I figured it would already be here for me to upvote :)
Stormy@thelemmy.club · 15 pts · 44d
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 44d
androids like zuckerberg are unlikely to have emotions, or humanity.
garbage_world@lemmy.world · -21 pts · 43d
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 43d
technophobia, or dislike of corporations that would kill people if it meant more profit?
clubb@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 43d
Corporations that do kill people because it means more profit*
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 43d
You're calling a community that is majority Linux enthusiasts technophobic?
garbage_world@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 43d
Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 43d
lmao
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca · 89 pts · 44d
Enshitification of shit. They truly are meta.
FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website · 32 pts · 44d
Nothing fills my heart with such joy as negative Meta headlines.
CTDummy@aussie.zone · 26 pts · 44d
I was always a fan of Ray Ban and got their glasses/sunglasses. Guess I need to look elsewhere since this god awful partnership.
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip · 29 pts · 44d
Personally i avoid visible branding, and at that point you can just go with whatever frame you like. Investing in high quality lenses is much better spent money in my experience, lightweight+deglared+extra thin lenses make a world of difference for comfortable wearing over longer time for me.
JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 44d
Apparently when you get Ray Ban frames for prescription glasses, you can pay extra to have the Ray Ban logo engraved on them. So if you see someone with prescription glasses with the Ray Ban logo, you can lose a little more respect for them.
13igTyme@piefed.social · 11 pts · 44d
I used to like Ray Bans, too. Then Luxotica bought them and they've never got any on my money since. I buy exclusively from Costco because they only sell non-Luxotica brand glasses for significantly cheaper.
Prescription sunglasses look identical to aviators, at a fraction of the price.
eighty@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 43d
did not know Costco sold exclusively non-luxo glasses - interest piqued
13igTyme@piefed.social · 2 pts · 43d
Sam's does the same and you don't need a membership to use the eye center for either.
mmmac@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 43d
Would be great of Costco had their own brand of smart glasses
13igTyme@piefed.social · 2 pts · 43d
Why? Smart glasses are stupid and no one should be buying them. They are a scam and another form of constant surveillance and recording. Only now with more accurate face recognition. All hail the future police state.
stoy@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 43d
Might I suggest Persol?
Sadly, they are expensive, but they look good and have great quallity in my experience.
As for glasses, five years ago, I got my first Lindberg glasses, and I am never going back to other brands.
I am currently on my third pair of black Lindberg Aaron and my current sunnies are a pair of gunmetal Persol PO1027S with custom brown lenses.
I have all of my pervious Lindberg frames and will start reusing them next time, as for the Persol, I lost my earlier pair of an earlier model of Persol sunglasses, but I plan on getting new models or a new pair of the same model to have some spares or variation.
CTDummy@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 43d
Cheers for the comprehensive recommendations, I’ll check them out!
benjirenji@slrpnk.net · 20 pts · 43d
Good headline. Didn't call them "owners". Because this doesn't happen to something you own.
Article's first sentence already fails though.
Trebuchet@europe.pub · 15 pts · 44d
Good. Perverts.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 43d
This bait-and-switch bullshit has gone way too far and I hope the few dozen socialists that get elected this fall really wreck this shit for the billionaires and force regulation.
Grumpus_Maximus@thelemmy.club · 12 pts · 43d
Evotech@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 43d
So far as i can tell, people who make PoV content, everything from YouTube shop vendors to porn
123@programming.dev · 2 pts · 43d
They seemed reasonable for people that like fishing and the like (ignoring the huge privacy issues).
MrNesser@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 43d
Ha ha
Prathas@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 44d
trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf · 9 pts · 43d
These mofos watched the failure that was google glass and went for it anyway lol
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 43d
I am kind of into the idea of having a little screen on the peripheral of my glasses for a heads up display as an interface with my phone. Or even as a full screen mirror for my phone to be able to browse lemmy or watch video while still keeping an eye on my surrounding. I really can't imagine why they decided they also needed to have it record everyone secretly.
trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf · 3 pts · 43d
The google glass design was pretty cool, sans camera. Iirc people were modifying them I think? Wonder how hard it would be to remove the camera. Probably soldered directly to the board. You could always try to make your own with some form of transparent screen
pastermil@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 43d
Usually one would wait til their product take over the market before enshitifying it. For this one, they don't even have a feasible market. Who am I to judge tho.
Almacca@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 44d
Sucked in, dickheads!
Etterra@discuss.online · 5 pts · 43d
Oh you thought we'd only demand hundreds of bucks for this trash? naw, now you need to pay a subscription fee. Now pay up loser.
aesthelete@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 43d
Nobody deserves it more
Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 43d
Well that was fast
Darkard@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 44d
MrKoyun@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 43d
GOOD!!!! FUCK THESE GLASSES
These should literally exclusively be an aid device for the visually impaired and nothing more.
oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 43d
I kinda think that's hilarious and how everyone that bought these go broke. Maybe at least someone will finally learn something then.
whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 44d
Like, basic vision? That would be funny
luckyeddy@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 43d
Trigger2_2000@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 40d
The BMW of tech. /s