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The problem is that we are living longer and healthier than even before and the trend is to keep on rising.

What the real problem is that allowing a person to actually live is troublesome for the current system in place, as in if you do not produce, you are not valuable.

But you are.

No really. A lot of people, even when shown proof, out of simple spite just double down on their position.

When energy saving and early LED bulbs started to be deployed in my country, while the fade out of incandescent bulbs was put in place, we had runs for buying every single incandescent bulb available. The change was not welcome. Even if changing meant real, objective, tangible savings.

People would put in large orders for bulbs, arguing they wanted to "have proper lighting as long has they lived". Luckily, the stocks quickly ran out and some distributors simply refused to pass the stocks to the market.

A government cutting off a product is not overreach: it's forcing change that otherwise would not happen, for the better.

No really. A lot of people, even when shown proof, out of simple spite just double down on their position.

When energy saving and early LED bulbs started to be deployed in my country, while the fade out of incandescent bulbs was put in place, we had runs for buying every single incandescent bulb available. The change was not welcome. Even if changing meant real, objective, tangible savings.

People would put in large orders for bulbs, arguing they wanted to "have proper lighting as long has they lived". Luckily, the stocks quickly ran out and some distributors simply refused to pass the stocks to the market.

A government cutting off a product is not overreach: it's forcing change that otherwise would not happen, for the better.

I've seen dimmer compatible LEDs and, even better, LED bulbs that have built in control of light intensity and even color. I've even seen bulbs capable of playing music through bluetooth!

Shape I don't really see as a concern, as any shape an incandescent bulb can be produced in, a LED bulb can also be. And then some, as the LEDs can be set up, twisted and bent into some very imaginative shapes and angles.

And heat is not ready a concern. You can touch most LED bulbs with your bare hands with no risk of severe burn. Unless very high wattage is in play, at most, a LED bulb will be warm to the touch.

Never crossed my mind to look for such kind of bulb but I'd risk I won't be able to find it in the local market.

If safety/security is a concern, lights are simply placed at hard to reach locations or are bought with safety housings, which are fairly cheap. In extremis, instead of common voltage bulbs, high voltage are used, thus incompatible with household voltage.

And specific purpose lamps... I may be the odd one but there are other sockets available in the market. Why opt for the basis threaded one?

Specialty bulbs are still produced but even those are shrinking.

I recently bought a very low power/low lumen LED light bulb and it was rated for refrigerator and other low temperature use.

Hoven lamps will eventually suffer the same fate.

Specialty bulbs are still produced but even those are shrinking.

I recently bought a very low power/low lumen LED light bulb and it was rated for refrigerator and other low temperature use.

Hoven lamps will eventually suffer the same fate.

I'm sitting inside a house where, presently, all lights turned on at the same time will require 30w. Before we went through all the lights, a single lightbulb would use 45w.

Just by replacing the old light bulbs, we reduced energy consumption and the number of lights required to light a room.

I took a look at the article and I came out with two points:

1. finally! Congratulations! Join the rest of the world where changing a freaking lightbulb costs you no mental pain.
2. left handed light bulbs? Are these a thing? Are these purpose built for specific applications, like counter clock wise screws?

I've never used on owned an Epson but I've been hearing wonders about the EcoTank line.

Affordable, lasting, dirt cheap ink, user replaceable printing heads, also cheap, and linux friendly.

I took the dark path when Vista became thing. With zero technical knowledge, I turned to Linux, with no regrets.

My entry way was SUSE, which was a shock, with KDE and a radically user experience from WinXP, my former daily driver for many, many years; I was an unashamed fanboy.

My next and final distro was Debian, when Debian was everything but user friendly. But Debian gave me a sense of control over my computer, which Vista had very proudly took away, while gobling away resources from a not so powerful machine.

That computer stayed home for about eight years, when it died, beyond any viable repair.

Debian stayed, although I admit I've been using Mint lately, mainly to accomodate for playing GOG games with the least stress.

But I'm a Debian person, no doubt about.

And I am the kind of person that spins his laptop at someone sporting a Debian-based distro and utters "I am your father."

I took the dark path when Vista became thing. With zero technical knowledge, I turned to Linux, with no regrets.

My entry way was SUSE, which was a shock, with KDE and a radically user experience from WinXP, my former daily driver for many, many years; I was an unashamed fanboy.

My next and final distro was Debian, when Debian was everything but user friendly. But Debian gave me a sense of control over my computer, which Vista had very proudly took away, while gobling away resources from a not so powerful machine.

That computer stayed home for about eight years, when it died, beyond any viable repair.

Debian stayed, although I admit I've been using Mint lately, mainly to accomodate for playing GOG games with the least stress.

But I'm a Debian person, no doubt about.

And I am the kind of person that spins his laptop at someone sporting a Debian-based distro and utters "I am your father."