Alec out there fighting the good fight for us.
I bought these lights, they’re sitting on the kitchen table waiting to be opened and put on a tree! I’m so excited!
I feel like this video touched some larger philosophical points about technological progress. It’s to work and create with restraints. If there are no limitations you end up with an unfocused mess.
I’ve seen that cropping up in a lot of videos lately from tech adjacent creators. Cathode Ray Dude veered off in his video about an HP laptop that had a feature that overwrote the Windows boot splash screen with a calendar view using the “Ring -2” management system into this kind of beautiful screed about basically why society is unraveling.
only if you’re a shitty designer or a consumer with shitty taste.
Taste is subjective.
Did he ignore flicker problems again like last year? Because flicker ruins lights for a lot of us
His obsession over color quality while ignoring the flicker is very annoying.
I dunno. I just bought the Sylvannia led traditional white lights. Flicker free. Finally.
That’s what’s so stupid about the whole problem - the solution is known and easy but it costs a tiny bit more to make so lots of manufacturers don’t do it. It just needs to run off DC instead of AC. Simple.
I wonder if you could use four of the LEDs themselves to form a full bridge rectifier?
Would still need a capacitor or something or it would flicker at 120Hz (in the US) but that’s not much more cost I would hope.
Also those 4 would flicker more than the rest of the string.
I just looked it up and I’m fairly certain it wouldn’t work. Every time the output waveform gets too low then the led would turn off, which is what creates the flicker. An led needs a constant current to stay on constantly.
Anyone care to sum up in a few sentences what this 20+ minute video is all about?
E: fucking lemmy, lol. Don’t watch youtube! Google sucks! Use alternatives! /asks for a quick summary so as to avoid youtube: lemmy: “Downvote!1!1”
Alec has been on a multi-year quest to get an incandescent color profile from LED Christmas lights. I haven’t watched this episode, but he usually does a pretty good job of recapping at the start of every episode.
It’s always super entertaining, in my opinion.
EDIT: I watched it. It is indeed super entertaining! This time, the recap comes after his special Christmas light repacking tip, so it’s a couple of minutes in.
Thank you. That would be lovely. I find LED’s flicker sometimes and are too “hard”, they lack the softer, more yellow profile of incandescents.
Probably what his rant is all about.
It’s been a fun journey. And he’s on the Fediverse! https://mas.to/@TechConnectify
(not tagging him directly because I feel like he probably gets that enough)
I love Technical Connections!!
Same! I saw that characteristic lighting in the preview thumbnail and got so excited.
I would be happy if I ever care about anything 1/10th as much as this guy cares about Christmas lights.
He should do one on car headlights… :)
Oh thanks! Gonna watch these.
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i’m sure they’re not perfect but i’ve had good luck with C7 ceramic LEDs from amazon.
