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27, US expat in Toronto, transmasc, chronically ill/immunocompromized, neurodivergent, arospec, nonmonogamous. i guess i'm a furry now? that's a recent development though. i'm not a programmer but i am a computer nerd and a linux user (apparently that's a thing people like to list here).

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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


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