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"Edison bulb" refers to a style and not anything to do with the quality of light. And you will probably get LED and a buggy one at that. Get incandescents, neve
by dbttdft 4y ago
"Edison bulb" refers to a style and not anything to do with the quality of light. And you will probably get LED and a buggy one at that. Get incandescents, never ever use CFL because they look terrible and will make you want to kill yourself. Only get LED if you need cold color temperature, and know what you're doing enough to avoid flicker and other LED problems like bad color rendering. Half of LEDs will flicker even in normal non-dimming fixtures fast enough that you dont see it looking dead on, but slow enough that when you move your hand you will see multiple copies of your hand. Some LEDs look terrible like fluorescent lights.
>Dark mode
Is crap in practice. 1/10 of your programs needed for a task will not have dark mode. Also most dark modes are high contrast instead of just low brightness. Most programs will suddenly show something bright because they are not cohesively developed (some stupid library will show an unthemed window), and most LCDs cannot be dimmed enough to be used in the dark without straining your eyes (also it will need to be PWM-free which is common now but it is still another constraint). Another fun fact is that if you use a program like redshift to set the color temperature low, the overshoot on a typical LCD will make flashes of white light every time you scroll. The pragmatic solution is to go to bed early, or just do what I do which is to use CRT/OLED and forget about dark modes but set the brightness and color temperature low.
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- Jaruzel 4y ago> Get incandescents In the UK, and in the EU, standard bulb incandescents are no longer being imported and the current stock is all there is, and as you say CFLs are horrible. So the options left are halogen (just as bad as CFL imho) or LED. I've resisted LED for ages, but now it seems they are finally good enough to replace incandescents.
- dbttdft 4y ago> So the options left are halogen I don't think they are as bad as CFL. CFL have really cold dim light with some other phenomena going on. I have seen LEDs that are, though. > but now it seems they are finally good enough to replace incandescents. Certainly not on average. Half the time I encounter an LED I notice that it flickers, even without a dimmer. I just bought 4 for $50 thinking I paid enough to get a non-bullshit product, and they flicker and I will have to go try the $60 one next.