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  • I mean, an arguably better counterargument would just be: you aren’t secure by a massive amount as it is with your normal stuff and the dedicated level by which somebody would have to be to try to vector in through a lightbulb would be state sponsored.

    But also, non wifi bulbs just don’t introduce this issue at all and never will.

    But also, I also use and like rgb smart lights/bulbs, so there’s that.


  • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoAutism@lemmy.worldIt's too brriiigghhtttt
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    8 days ago

    It’s not even good light, either. It’s really narrow band light that isn’t natural, and so is really bad for fast object recognition and is blinding and glare.

    Like using a laser pointer to illuminate stuff, it’s just gonna blind you and not really make it easier to see.

    And it fucks up your ability to see outside of that light source, like having a really bright monitor in a dark room that you ALSO need to see.

    There’s a good video explanation somewhere…

    I think this was the one https://youtu.be/Uq7pfrognGM

    But it also doesn’t even take into account all the other stupid design issues.

    Also https://youtu.be/-Lh2wPGKnAM

    And

    https://youtu.be/D4BAgYQ32RI

    It’s basically just dumbass advertising and dumbass ignorant people buying into it. Like computer monitor tech when “hd” became a thing or refresh rate on lcds and companies playing fuckfuck number games advertising the biggest number they can. Or speaker companies advertising cheap garbage by how loud it can technically get but it actually sounds like absolute garbage and pisses everybody off when you blast your cheap piss everywhere. I fucking hate these shitty headlights so goddamn much.

    Like if would be one thing if it was perfect light and was just bad for ecosystems at night. But no, it’s like the loudest, screechiest bullshit screaming light that blinds everybody for no fucking reason AND DOESN’T EVEN MAKE IT EASIER TO SEE FOR THE USER because now you have to also have (you don’t have to have) these shields that bar off the top edges of the lights to not blind other people, but now you have this massive contrast edge between shitty blinding light where your object recognition is ass, and DEAD BLACK UNLIT AREA which… To make matters fucking worse, encourages the user TO TURN ON THEIR HIGH BEAMS FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCKKKK!!!



  • I think it’s the interior decorator philosophy of how lighting a residential room works.

    For example, a single, central ceiling light is “the big light” , but having multiple lamps and/or wall lights that use warmer, diffuse light are not “the big light”.

    It’s generally seen as cheap, lazy, and bad vibes to use “the big light”. Boomer or unaware millennial behavior.

    Imagine entering a chill, groovy, warmly lit room, decorated by hippies and feels cozy or not hostile, and comfortable and welcoming and relaxing. That’s the opposite of “the big light”.

    Or I could just be fucking wrong and thinking of something totally different /shrug