• @cm0002
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      1377 days ago

      Seconded, however:

      WARNING:

      if you go to Technology Connections YT channel, we are not responsible if when you find yourself watching a 6 hour play list on light bulbs

      • @[email protected]
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        677 days ago

        Or even worse, six hours of video making LED christmas lights look like the incandescent light from 30 years ago.

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              307 days ago

              Yes, hopefully. For his own sanity. Someone finally made commercially available LED bulbs the way he was trying to DIY it.

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                37 days ago

                But they were a tad pricey…

                Should a cheaper alternative come along, won’t we all be curious whether it might suffice? 😇

                • @grue
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                  47 days ago

                  That was already addressed in his latest video: his local home center (Menards, I think?) came out with a cheaper version (it tried to have old-timey colors, but still used colored LEDs underneath instead of white), and no, it didn’t suffice.

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        The series about the RCA video disc player thing is WILD. That they made that fucking thing work at all is a testament to what can be accomplished if you throw a huge sum of money and enough smart people at a problem .

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        137 days ago

        I also have strong opinions about Christmas lights.

        Unfortunately, they do not perfectly align with Technology Connections. We agree is almost all respects: flickering is bad, purple is not a valid Christmas color, white lights should be warm and not bluish. I just can’t agree about this one thing though, I LOVE the super saturated colors of LEDs for the red, blue, and green lights. I care much less about the saturation of the yellow and/or orange lights.

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          87 days ago

          I agree with you, but my excuse is being in the southern hemisphere where Christmas lights must compete with summer evenings. The bold colours do better at early twilight

          Indoors though I like the less saturated colours, and lack of options has had my tree lit with warm white only for the last decade - I get colour only where the white light plays off transparent and reflective baubles (decorations, I think they’re called in America) and tinsel

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            37 days ago

            being in the southern hemisphere where Christmas lights must compete with summer evenings.

            That must suck. I don’t even turn on my Christmas lights until the sun’s gone.

          • Dharma Curious (he/him)
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            37 days ago

            It’s all decorations, baubles specifically are ‘ornaments,’ though in the deep south you’ll sometimes hear baubles, but generally only when referencing something as frivolous and stupidly expensive, not in reference to Christmas ornaments.

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              57 days ago

              When I say bauble I’m always referring to one of two things:

              1. A mock scepter carried by a court jester.

              2. A trifling piece of finery; a gewgaw; that which is gay and showy without real value; a cheap, showy plaything.

              😉

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                77 days ago

                In Australia all the ball style things you hang from the tree are definitely baubles, other hanging things are mostly still baubles, candy canes are candy canes and tree toppers are tree toppers varying between stars, angels, and anything else for the non-religious

    • @tibi
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      26 days ago

      The most annoying thing for me is that i can’t find any powder detergent where I live which worked best in his videos, and the compartment is so poorly designed that i frequently find half the detergent pod still in the compartment after the dishes are done.