Do you agree with the practice of planned obsolescence?

[SvennoJ]

JRPGfan said:

John2290 said:

You know that 70's Tv with the wodden bezel that you or your parents (maybe grandparents) still have, I bet that still working, yeah? Well, as long as it wasn't used excessively with early gen home consoles :D. Now how many 90's TV's did you, your Pops go through? I bet that number is idiotically high. I know my family combined went through at least 7 that I can recall. Well that is planned obsolescence in a nutshell. A better example would probably be the tungsten lightbulb.

All our lightbulbs are those LED light ones, that use 1/10th of the power and last 20+years instead, and generate much less heat.

However they do cost like 4-5times as much as the normal ones, but imo worth it.

 

1100+ lumens for 75watts of power with a normal bulb, vs 8watts or so with a LEB lightbulb.

The powerbill alone will earn back its higher cost, and the fact that they basically never break, and last so damn long makes them a much better buy.

Have you had them for 20+ years yet? :)

This is proven tech
http://www.centennialbulb.org/

Working since 1901!

I hate these new LED street lights. Awefully bright. It's going to be horrible when the snow comes. It's great they use much less power than the old sodium orange glow, yet I don't need daylight next to my house all night long. It should have been possible to see the auroras here last night from the recent solar storm, not a friggin chance with all the light pollution.

Do I still need to replace all my dimmers for LED lights? I mostly use halogen lights on dimmers. I'm not fond of bright lights at night.