America’s ban on incandescent light bulbs, 16 years in the making, is finally a reality. Well, mostly.

Incandescent light bulbs are officially banned in the U.S.::America’s ban on incandescent light bulbs, 16 years in the making, is finally a reality. Well, mostly.

  • cheery_coffee@lemmy.caEnglish
    1617·
    11 months ago

    Now instead of throwing out a little glass and wire, I get to throw out entire light fixtures with non-replacable LEDs soldered onto cheap PCBs that fail in about the same time as an incandescent light bulb!

    I’m all for the energy efficiency of LEDs, but the cheap light fixtures replacing bulbs are a bad trend that needs to die, but they’re easier to wire and last longer on paper, so they’re getting installed everywhere by default.

    • dmention7@lemm.eeEnglish
      9·
      11 months ago

      So don’t buy non-replaceable fixtures?

      How is removing incandescent bulbs from the marketplace going to increase the installation of fixtures with non-replaceable components, when such fixtures never used incandescent bulbs in the first place?

      • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        It can be difficult. I started asking around about getting recessed lighting installed in my kitchen and they all wanted to install disk lights.

        These seem even worse since not only do you have to replace the fixture when it burns out, but you risk having to replace all the fixtures when it varies by color temperature or trim

        • stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pubEnglish
          21·
          11 months ago

          They should charge you less for using cheaper material, reduce labor costs etc and charge the regular rate (like they fucking die before) to install a recessed fixture.

          Overall, capitalism and rampant, irresponsible consumerism is to blame for all these quick fix solutions and lack of repairable devices. There is not one person to blame but ourselves for continuing to buy into this bs (literally)

    • stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pubEnglish
      112·
      11 months ago

      This has everything to do with implementation and complications from late-stage capitalism and not the actual technology