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PaperclipPerfector  5mo ago (text post)   3798 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for June 14, 2024

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could also burn out

Ironically, it's much safer for an incandescent lightbulb to just stay on 24/7 than it is for it to be switched on and off several times a day.

Maybe, but the reason certain boomers will never be fully on board with LEDs is that incandescent bulbs were absolutely dirty cheap even if you didn't buy cheap ones.

As opposed to certain Gen Y/Z/As, who notice that the dirt-cheap LED bulbs don't instantly turn on when you flick the switch (you have to buy the 10-dollar ones to get that) and have a hard time being dimmed past certain points (where they just turn off and you blow out your eyes trying to turn them on). Or those who remember what standard lightbulbs are like in terms of color reproduction, since LEDs still can't fake blackbody radiation properly (as that's inherent to incandescence).

Personally, I'm on board with LEDs insofar as you can get lots and lots of light out of them with existing fixtures and they also don't heat up the room; if my fixtures are going to say "100W max" on them, then my LED bulbs are going to be 100W no matter how blatantly absurd that is.

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