asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i saw interesting variant of this, with the selfsame led bulbs, where a dead lamp would light for about 1/2 second after the live one connected in tandem switched (from wall switch) off !
asciilifeform: btw, bonus tip for tuned-in folx, it dun hurt to have a number of cameras pointed at door- or window-shaped holes in your dwelling, some of which are prominent, and might depend on mains current, but others -- not so prominent, and do not, and do not write to the net or to any place you can get to other than by demolishing whole bldg
asciilifeform: not everybody has a guard booth with servant chilling his bones by the antitank ditch on the edge of the dirigible field.
asciilifeform: 'let's give'im that one SPESHUL horse'
asciilifeform: (now, they ALSO burn after 6mo. so not all that useful.)
asciilifeform: the result, curiously enough, is ~two~ new units, about 6 months later, in each case
asciilifeform: i do different thing -- mail the lamps back, with a note about considering www article re rubbish lamp, and inviting maker to consider honouring the warranty
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i wonder if they have prisoners sift through rubbish in search of lamps yet.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: not practical to put a 200w-dissipating fixture on a ceiling already so low mircea_popescu would scratch the top of his dome if he came to my house
asciilifeform confesses to complete lack of emotion re subj
asciilifeform: lel, d00d decided not to sell any moar after all ?
asciilifeform: you get used to room being bright enough to read in.
asciilifeform: the other thing about these lamps is that (at least i find) they are addictive -- after stuffing 2 100w-imitators into a fixture that cannot physically hold 2 100w edison bulbs without catching fire, it is painful to go back
asciilifeform: the folx makin' these things --- thought things through, yes.
asciilifeform: or to even adequately conduct heat again
asciilifeform: (they are not, before anyone asks, +ev to fix at home, you will not get the tin can with the heat sink closed to anything like the shape you want it to be to fit in any fixture)
asciilifeform: one reason is that the chumps often submit'em, for free, for 'recycle', and the lamp house gets to sell ~same motherfucking lamp N times☟︎
asciilifeform: led lamp makers are scamming folx left and right in entirely nonsubtle ways (i just unscrewed 5th dead '20 year life!111' bulb this year, none were older than ~1y)☟︎
asciilifeform: with ~blue~ ? brighter blue from lamp than from the sun? really, srs?
asciilifeform: but from abstract, it seems like a stretch, charitably. (blinds with uv? asciilifeform sunburns in about 5minutes, and so owns a uv dosimeter, it reads 0 at point blank range from led bulbs of whatever make -- i have at least 5 popular models here.)
