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Comment on Lies, Big Lies and LED Lightbulb Lifespan Promises by Misterlaneous

Misterlaneous — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 03:54:02 +0000

I have a bucket of dead tuya bulbs. I figured I’d give em a go in the string lights for the Halloween party before tossing em. I shocked the crap out of myself with one of them (with an audience) but the shock turned the no longer wifi bulb red. I call it a win.

Comment on Little Quadruped Has PCB Spine And No Wiring by pelrun

pelrun — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 03:40:36 +0000

In reply to Dustbuster7000.

According to the video description, it’s a modified version of this design: https://github.com/scheffield/stencil-fix

Comment on Lies, Big Lies and LED Lightbulb Lifespan Promises by Cody

Cody — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 03:31:27 +0000

In reply to Tony M. If I had a CNC mill, I would definitely make some water blocks and play around with some very high power, water cooled LEDs. Water cooling is certainly overkill for room lighting though. Lots of LEDs spread out on an aluminum strip or sheet works great for that and stays cool.

Comment on Clockwork Rover For Venus by LordNothing

LordNothing — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 03:27:02 +0000

In reply to PerniciousSnit. should point out that venus is above the curie point of a lot of magnetics. for example forget about neodymium. electromagnets should still work.

Comment on Lies, Big Lies and LED Lightbulb Lifespan Promises by captnmike

captnmike — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 03:24:09 +0000

In reply to Somehuman.

I would actually expect that it is the race to the bottom for pricing, your average consume sees two bulbs in the store – one for $4- and the other for $3- most will go for the $3- one – so many manufactures just keep making things cheaper and thus the less reliable cheaper wins the race

Comment on Lies, Big Lies and LED Lightbulb Lifespan Promises by Gus Mueller

Gus Mueller — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 03:09:22 +0000

none of the six LED can spotlights in the ceiling of my kitchen have ever been replaced, and they date to the very first generation of LED lighting, back when you had to buy LED bulbs online from specialty stores. when was that, 2010 or so? they were about $20 each at the time.

Comment on The Glacial IPv6 Transition: Raising Questions on Necessity and NAT-Based Solutions by Golfman

Golfman — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 02:50:12 +0000

In reply to Greg A.

I 100% agree. The IP exhaustion issue could have been sooooooooo easily solved and without replacing it with an IP abundance issue which means tracking bad actors and maintaining blacklists becomes an exponentially greater issue with much more ongoing maintenance required due to the abundance of IP6 addresses making them cheap for bad actors to replace if their last range gets blacklisted.

IP addresses are not so cheap (free) in an IP4 (or IP5 with 5 byte addresses!) world – which is exactly what you want!