He should do one on car headlights… :)
I would be happy if I ever care about anything 1/10th as much as this guy cares about Christmas lights.
I love Technical Connections!!
I feel like this video touched some larger philosophical points about technological progress. It’s to work and create with restraints. If there are no limitations you end up with an unfocused mess.
I’ve seen that cropping up in a lot of videos lately from tech adjacent creators. Cathode Ray Dude veered off in his video about an HP laptop that had a feature that overwrote the Windows boot splash screen with a calendar view using the “Ring -2” management system into this kind of beautiful screed about basically why society is unraveling.
only if you’re a shitty designer or a consumer with shitty taste.
Taste is subjective.
Alec out there fighting the good fight for us.
I bought these lights, they’re sitting on the kitchen table waiting to be opened and put on a tree! I’m so excited!
As always, he created a delightful video!
Did he ignore flicker problems again like last year? Because flicker ruins lights for a lot of us
I actually ran my outside lights on rectified DC power last year because the flicker kills me
I dunno. I just bought the Sylvannia led traditional white lights. Flicker free. Finally.
That’s what’s so stupid about the whole problem - the solution is known and easy but it costs a tiny bit more to make so lots of manufacturers don’t do it. It just needs to run off DC instead of AC. Simple.
I wonder if you could use four of the LEDs themselves to form a full bridge rectifier?
Would still need a capacitor or something or it would flicker at 120Hz (in the US) but that’s not much more cost I would hope.
Also those 4 would flicker more than the rest of the string.
I just looked it up and I’m fairly certain it wouldn’t work. Every time the output waveform gets too low then the led would turn off, which is what creates the flicker. An led needs a constant current to stay on constantly.
His obsession over color quality while ignoring the flicker is very annoying.
He mentions flicker several times in the video.
I meant ignore in the context that he said it doesn’t personally bother him.
I may never understand why people get pissed at creators focusing on an issue they are passionate about - because that viewers specific issue wasn’t mentioned or focused on. Surely there is content that aligns with what you are seeking without forcing every other creator to monologe out every possible edge case like a US drug advert reading out side effects.
Yeah, none of you guys are the main character, I’M the main character.
I mean it’s his video so he’s the main character. People who care about the flicker can make their own video.
Something to that effect, yeah. I genuinely get people pointing out or raising the issue in the comments… If for no other reason than to perhaps inform the creator / community of something. But that has a far different energy than this. It almost always feels hostile.
Careful reviewers cover all factors independent of their personal bias.
It’s not a review though?
He is promoting a product. That product possibly has what many perceive as a severe defect (flicker). He could say it doesn’t personally bother him but still compare it to other lights in the same way he compared colors in detail. Is the flicker large or small?
I love his channel and watch every video. But that doesn’t mean I have to ignore when he misses a detail.
Anyone care to sum up in a few sentences what this 20+ minute video is all about?
E: fucking lemmy, lol. Don’t watch youtube! Google sucks! Use alternatives! /asks for a quick summary so as to avoid youtube: lemmy: “Downvote!1!1”
You haven’t heard of adblock or youtube frontends haven’t you or you have the attention span of a goldfish
Assume whatever makes you feel better.
Thanks.
Alec has been on a multi-year quest to get an incandescent color profile from LED Christmas lights. I haven’t watched this episode, but he usually does a pretty good job of recapping at the start of every episode.
It’s always super entertaining, in my opinion.
Thank you. That would be lovely. I find LED’s flicker sometimes and are too “hard”, they lack the softer, more yellow profile of incandescents.
Probably what his rant is all about.
It’s been a fun journey. And he’s on the Fediverse! https://mas.to/@TechConnectify
(not tagging him directly because I feel like he probably gets that enough)
i’m sure they’re not perfect but i’ve had good luck with C7 ceramic LEDs from amazon.
