all the flashlights have lumen inflation and are too bright to actually be useful and their color temperatures are gross and they increasingly are designed to be thrown away rather than fixed, with sealed in lion batteries instead of using cell batteries
so many lightbulbs have fugly color rendering and too-cold color temps
so much badly made led bulbs flicker and make me feel physically nauseous
lots of ppl habitually leave lights where they used to turn them off because it feels like it doesnt matter as much with an led bulb
dimmable leds are hard to come by if you dont want to have to use a phone to dim them
led fairy lights are ugly and theyre going to remain ugly forever because lighting manufacturers cant concieve of using a phosphor white bulb under a colored filter
now we have entire ass disposabale led-builtin light fixtures. just throw away the whole lamp at the end of the use cycle
also like, i gotta wonder if the energy savings of led bulbs really compensate for
(a) the additional waste from gratuitously nonrepairable/nonreplaceable flashlights and led-builtin light fixtures, and
(b) the fact that like, idk, a led bulb seems like its gotta have much more Exotic Tech Trash in it than a extremely thin tungston filament in a glass bulb whose design has remained unchanged for a hundred years, and so even without the most excessively wasteful fixtures, you are still ending up with more rare, difficult to extract and manufacture materials being thrown away when a bulb dies. the embodied environmental cost of a led bulb seems higher than a filament one.
im sure thats a complicated question but. yeah. both the quality of lighting options and the longterm repairability of lighting related stuff has gone down since the introduction of led's and it sucks
We found out that our dimmable LED bulbs flicker at 120Hz because of the stupid rectifier circuit they are using. That means they literally used a FOOL BRIDGE RECTIFIER but couldn't be arsed to add a capacitor to smooth it out!!
We like cold lighting now because our old lighting was crappy orange lighting (made everything look like piss) with a CRI of basically zero idk. But these lights are really not much better with a CRI of "around 80 idk" according to the manufacturer.
They are cool (5000K) and they are bright though, so they are pretty good! And we dim them with a hardware device (lamp dimmer) that we manually spliced into the power cable, that isn't required by code to be next to the stupid door, so we can actually change the brightness from bed. Awesome.
(we had to manually splice the dimmer in because lamp dimmers aren't grounded for some stupid reason but we wanted to have a ground because we're not insane.)