• then_three_more@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Anyone remember the story about light bulbs? How they’d last almost forever, but it was secretly decided that this is bad, as customers would never need to buy a new one, so they intentionally made them worse.

    WTF are you smoking? I think I’ve replaced 1 led bulb since switching to them 10 years ago.

    • heckypecky@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 months ago

      As far as I know he’s talking about the old filament bulbs. And it’s actually a myth or at least a bad example of planned obsolescence. It is possible to make a light bulb that lasts virtually forever, but they would be expensive. It was a compromise between lifetime and production costs.

      And where do you get those led bulbs? Mine break all the time…