We’ve been doing that the whole time. CFL’s were rated in equivalent Watts as well, because that’s what people know. To this day I couldn’t tell you what the lumen rating of a 100w incandescent bulb put out, but I know the relative brightness from experience. Considering there are people who may have never actually owned an incandescent bulb it may be time to focus on that? Who knows. Also there’s still the selling point of “Our bulb uses 10% of what a “real” light bulb uses!”
Those are still ridiculously expensive. The Home Depot lights I have all cost like $5-7 a piece. Unfortunately the Hubspace app SUCKS and hasn’t been updated in the two years since I installed it. I’d toyed with the idea of upgrading to Hue, but it’s just not worth the investment.
So here’s the thing. We can empathize with what the Chinese people have gone through over the last ~100 years, but we can also say, “you know, Chinese tourists can be entitled as shit and rude sometimes” and not have to feel guilty about it. Also, Chinese isn’t a race - not even a single ethnicity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_China
All extremely valid points, and in the future I will disable all adblockers and self-censor to keep the blood money resources flowing.
Me: This video of a POS attacking a sleeping person (literally drop elbowing him in the head with the potential of snapping the neck) on the NYC subway with malicious assault says more about all of the people watching and filming while doing nothing about it than the attacker.
Reddit: You are permanently suspended from Reddit.
3 days ago.
Which I am, because pretty much everything leads to death eventually. I’m not a super being that can calculate the number of deaths directly resulting from an airplane flying in a given day.
It’s a big 'ol YOU HAVE BEEN PERMANENTLY SUSPENDED FROM REDDIT popup that shows up if I try to interact with the site at all. Very serious, very official, very stupid if I’m honest. I don’t really care what the real reason for the ban was, I had been thinking that I spent too much time scrollng on that site recently so they did me a favor.
They didn’t even have the decency to give al reason.
I got banned from the entirety of reddit a couple days ago for daring to say that people on the NYC subway should stand up for themselves against a violent thug who attacked a sleeping passenger for tik tok, so I’m not really surprised. And I can’t even prove that’s what I was banned for since they deleted my comment LOL
I mean, it is though.
You got me wondering and apparently Home Assistant could work with the home depot bulbs. I’ll have to do a deep dive but honestly the Hue integrations with games and monitors is really what I was most interested in. That said anything that can do a bit more than individually changing the color of a bulb manually would be nice.