u/StrongRecipe6408

I've talked to a lot of older Western people and those who have had kids. 100% of them say the same thing when I ask them "do you want your kids to take care of you when you get older?"

"No, I want them to have their own life. It was our choice to bring them into this world, and it's not right to demand that they take care of us for something that was our choice to begin with. They will miss out on so many years of things that life has to offer if they were stuck caring for us."

Now compare this to my Chinese upbringing - I remember being 10 years old and my parents already telling me, even then, that when they get old I'm *going* to be taking care of them and I won't be putting them in a retirement home "like those Americans."

Fast forward 30 years and absolutely nothing has changed. I'm also an only child, single by choice, and they don't give a damn about the experiences in life I will need to forego to take care of them. They also don't care that the situation would literally be a single 50-some year old stuck at home every single day cooking and cleaning and caring for them in a micro family of three.

By the time they finally die I could very well be past 60, far past the age of the things I want to do for myself (ie. travel overland through every single country on planet Earth, camp under the stars, dive in the seas, try all the food our cultures have to offer, etc).

I just find the two cultures so insanely incompatible sometimes. One places personal freedom and personal responsibility on top. The other forces rigid duties onto others, their own personal life goals be damned.

My parents are in their 70s and Chinese. They're both very traditional and I've made it clear that I won't have children.

For the last two decades they've said that grandchildren are the only thing they really want and they see their life and mine as pointless and miserable without grandchildren and a legacy to leave behind, and that I'm the direct cause of their misery and pointless life.

For the older children who have had their parents die, did your parents eventually manage to give up on these kinds of thoughts and pass peacefully, or did they keep it right to the time they died, attempting to leave you with one last pang of guilt?

I fly small ultralights that use 2-stroke engines which tend to vibrate a lot.

Since the spark plug is a high-temperature environment, are there any Torque Seal-like visual indicators that can be used on them to quickly check if one has loosened or not?

How well does expanded polystyrene (EPS) insulated sheathing work for hydro, both as a raft or as a cover for a tray for net cups to go into?

Can't post product links here, but I'm talking about Henry 1 in. x 48 in. x 8 ft. R-3.85 Insulating Sheathing that you can get from Home Depot that's got a reflective layer on one side.

Will the reflective surfaces come off and contaminate things? Does it break down in sunlight?

I'm growing pea shoots in shallow 10x20 germination trays but the problem I'm having is the sun heats up the water in the trays so quickly since they're shallow.

I want to transfer them to deeper cheap aluminum baking trays for the two weeks they take to grow big enough.

My thought is that aluminum is reflective so it should help keep the water cooler for longer, and since I'm not using any nutrients in the water there shouldn't be any risk of acidic reactions with the aluminum.

Thoughts?

I've got a couple of standard black plastic 10x20 seed sprouting trays holding a mesh tray full of sprouted peas.

I want to put them outside for the sun but I think the black plastic tray and the black plastic mesh bottom tray insert will quickly heat up the small amount of water inside the tray and cook the roots, even with the water topped up and not drying out.

So is my only option to grow them inside under lights or find a spot that's continually shaded and basically starve the shoots a little of sun?

One of the bigger wishes for AR eyeglasses is for them to have 4K displays because they're currently maxing out at 1920x1200. A 4K display in a FOV similar to Xreal One Pro or Viture Beast would have a PPD of ~70PPD which is "Retina" quality. For the Xreal Aura 70 degree FOV that would drop to ~60PPD but still Retina quality.

But looking at examples of current top display panels and their pixel density, it doesn't seem like the technology is close to being there yet?

A 0.68-inch Sony Micro-OLED on the Viture Beast / One Pro is 3,135 PPI for pixel density on the panels. The panels on the Apple Vision Pro and Galaxy XR are around this ballpark, and they benefit from having extra space to put larger 1.3-1.4 inch panels, something eyeglasses don't have.

Samsung last year announced a 5,000 PPI panel for AR/XR but in a 0.68-inch size like on the Beast / One Pro puts that at 2883 × 1802... so 2K.

That's still a big difference from 4K which would require ~6,600 PPI in a super bright 0.68-inch panel and which would produce around 60 PPD in a 70 degree FOV like the Xreal Aura for "Retina".quality.

So for now it seems like 4K in an eyeglass format is still at least a couple of years away?

I've got a TPLink Deco XE75 Pro and after a year of using it we've learned that it cannot self-recover in 100% of cases when there is a blip in internet or power. This means if we're on vacation and the internet stops, our entire house and things like cameras will be down until someone physically unplugs and re-plugs the modem and router.

I just learned that automatic internet-enabled power rebooters exist.

Which ones have you used that are good and reliable? Bonus points if it sends emails or texts to notify me when it has rebooted, or connects with Google Home.

I've got a TPLink Deco XE75 Pro and after a year of using it we've learned that it cannot self-recover in 100% of cases when there is a blip in internet or power. This means if we're on vacation and the internet stops, our entire house and things like cameras will be down until someone physically unplugs and re-plugs the modem and router.

I just learned that automatic internet-enabled power rebooters exist.

Which ones have you used that are good and reliable? Bonus points if it sends emails or texts to notify me when it has rebooted, or connects with Google Home.

Looking to grow pea sprouts for stir fries.

I've read that 10x10 and 10x20 are the standardized sizes?

The only things I can find on Amazon require buying like 10 pieces. I think to start I just need 3 solid trays, 3 mesh trays that fit them, and I guess 3 humidity domes.

The ones at Walmart are so cheap and flimsy, so ideally something durable and can support its own weight + seeds + water.

Recommendations for specific brands or products?

I'm totally new to PHA but I really really really like the idea that it's truly biodegradable and certainly wouldn't mind if it became cheap and plentiful enough to match the other filament types.

I'm looking on Taobao in China and I see a couple:

Loopha PHA for $20 USD / 1kg.
MedPHA for $10 USD / 1kg.

Anyone know what the deal is with these two brands, especially the cheaper MedPHA? I'm guessing that both of them are the original manufacturers and producing PHA on an industrial scale and could potentially even supply raw PHA pellets to other filament companies throughout the world?

I'm coming from a P1S with AMS and I'm used to just having four rolls chilling in the AMS and be ready to go at all times with desiccant boxes inside.

But the exposed filament on the U1 has me worried.

How well does the SH03 work with the U1? Reason I'm looking at it is because it seems like it would work well for more technical filaments that require higher heat, so it's something I can grow into.

Thoughts?? Alternatives?

I've had the XE75 Pro for half a year now on Spectrum internet with the latest firmware.

About once every two months the internet will just cut out. I'm not sure if it's due to a blip in Spectrum's service that initially causes this, but the problem is that the XE75 Pro simply can't recover on its own and resume providing internet to connected devices.

- One time the internet cut out and the main Deco unit showed a red light. That red light stayed on for an hour despite the Internet light on the modem having turned itself back on after the outage. It required me to physically unplug and re-plug the power on the XE75 to get the red light to turn green. It wasn't able to self-recover without my manual intervention.

- Another time the internet on connected devices just stopped working. The light is green on the Deco. The Internet light is on on the modem. I can access the Deco app on my phone, connect to the units, and the app says the connection and everything is fine despite none of our devices receiving internet. I then also have to manually unplug and re-plug the XE75 and then it's ok again.

This is very unreliable. We depend on WiFi Google Cloud cameras to monitor our house when we're overseas. We cannot have a person physically unplug and re-plug in the XE75 every time a random outage like this happens. While it's infrequent, it seems to always require manual power cycling.

Anyone know what's going on here? Before this we used an old Google mesh network for years and that self-recovered in all instances no matter what with absolutely no need for manual intervention.

I'm growing pea shoots for Asian stir fry.

Has anyone personally grown them without weighing down the sprouts with a weight for the first few days?

What ended up happening to your non-weighted sprouts? Does weighing it make that much of a difference?

I've got a 2014 Crosstrek CVT.

People who have replaced their air conditioning compressor with an aftermarket 3rd party such as Four Seasons, GPD, UAC, A-Premium, etc:

How has your 3rd party compressor been, how long ago did you replace it, what brand was it, and what year is your XV?

The Xreal One Pro has a FOV of 57 degrees, which I was under the impression that this was at the maximum edge of what was possible with prism optics and that anything higher would require waveguides or massive birdbaths like VR headsets.

So how is the Aura able to make such a large jump to 70 degrees using prism optics in an eyeglass form factor? What is this optical stack?

And are there downsides to this prism design, such as a wide FOV that's not sharp throughout, or an even more massive light transmission drop than the old prism design?

The One Pro has a FOV of 57 degrees, which I was under the impression that this was at the maximum edge of what was possible with prism optics and that anything higher would require waveguides.

So how is the Aura able to make such a large jump to 70 degrees using prism optics? What's this optical stack?

And are there downsides to this prism design, such as a wide FOV that's not sharp throughout, or an even more massive light transmission drop than the old prism design?