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TIL we have LED lightbulb rules but every bulb in home depot has terrible PWM that's bad for your eyes. Another 20 years and maybe the government will finally
by winrid 2mo ago
TIL we have LED lightbulb rules but every bulb in home depot has terrible PWM that's bad for your eyes.
Another 20 years and maybe the government will finally address that.
On the tires topic, I'm fine with this as long as they don't ban the sale of anything. Let the consumer decide.
- Schiendelman 2mo agoCan you get LED lightbulbs you like online?
- winrid 2mo agoYeah, the Philips EyeComfort Flicker Free bulbs. Which HD used to sell. Now it's 90% a couple other brands. The problem is landlords and normal people just go to home depot so every time I move it's a giant replace bulbs fiasco (or even replacing fixtures).
- 486sx33 2mo ago[dead]
- BigTTYGothGF 2mo agoSounds like the problem is HD/Lowes driving all other alternatives out of business.
- jerlam 2mo agoAlthough I only found the highly-rated Philips Ultra Definition bulbs at Walmart, of all places.
- WarmWash 2mo agoIt's not that they go to home depot, it's that they buy whatever is cheapest because "LED bulb = LED bulb", and then talk about how LED bulbs are trash.
- benji-york 2mo agoCan you get (non-LED) lightbulbs you like online? No. They are illegal.
- preg_match 2mo agoI don’t know that they are illegal, but they are legitimately useless. You can get high-quality LED bulbs and very warm LED bulbs. All my LEDs are about as warm, maybe even warmer, than incandescents. Like orange in color. LEDs are universally better. They use way less energy and last way, way longer. The end result is you save a shit ton of money.
- LoganDark 2mo agoI don't like warm lighting and especially orange lighting. But it's nearly impossible to find cool lighting that doesn't flicker like mad. Even adjustable color temperature fixtures usually don't reach anywhere near their rated brightness at the coolest color temperature...
- WarmWash 2mo agohttps://store.waveformlighting.com/products/centric-daylight-full-spectrum-flicker-free-a19-10w-led-bulb https://store.waveformlighting.com/products/centric-daylight... Pricey but they are flicker free
- LoganDark 2mo agoNot actually as pricey as my current bulbs, but undimmable and about 70% less lumen output (visually about 30% less bright). It does have a MUCH better CRI though.
- kingnothing 2mo agohttps://flickeralliance.org/ https://flickeralliance.org/ will help you find good quality bulbs
- infecto 2mo agoThis is an awesome resource, thank you for sharing. I especially love that Amazon basic bulbs are fine for the first on the list.
- phainopepla2 2mo agoThe linked page works fine for me, but when I navigate to any of the other pages (for example: https://flickeralliance.org/collections/flicker-free-light-bulbs https://flickeralliance.org/collections/flicker-free-light-b...) it just shows me an ad for an Indonesian online casino. Anyone else getting this?
- nrclark 2mo agoSame for me.
- sageinventor 2mo agosame here
- kingnothing 2mo agoThat's unfortunate. I've found it to be a valuable resource in the past. Hopefully they are able to recover their site.
- mlsu 2mo agoI replaced all the bulbs in my house with incandescents. They use more electricity, but I don't really care. If we're going to build ten thousand gigawatt datacenters for every corporation on earth to stuff AI up my ass I will do as I please with the lighting in my own home and I rest easy about it, because of the very pleasant, warm, full spectrum glow that incandescents give off when dimmed.
- lokar 2mo agoYou can buy really good LED lights. Pretty much everything sold at Home Depot is junk, not just light bulbs.