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That story explains why I dislike led lights

    • littlewonder@lemmy.world
      9·
      6 months ago

      I love that I get this reference.

      I also love that last year he found a company manufacturing strings of white LEDs with colored tips (which is his ideal setup) and said he probably wouldn’t need to make any more annual videos about it anymore.

      Cue this year’s video about it lol

    • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social
      21·
      6 months ago

      ✋😐

      I grew up with incandescent bulbs, and it was hell. The waste, in both trash and energy consumption, was horrendous.

      The (thankfully) short age of flourescent reduced energy use, but the trash was worse, and the light categorically regressive.

      LEDs are, in all ways, superior. You buy cheap-ass crap LEDs, you’re going to get a worse experience, obviously. Despite some negatives, LEDs are still the best lighting technology available. Feel free to complain, but there’s no better option right now. Wanting to go back to incandescents is vinyl-turntable-level, selective memory, retro hipsterism. And also super shitty for the environment.