while I disagree with his hatred of blue and green LED christmas lights being too much (I actually love them), I do love hearing about his process to find the christmas lights of his dreams.
I look forward to these videos every year 😁
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.
only if you’re a shitty designer or a consumer with shitty taste.
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.
As always, he created a delightful video!
i’m sure they’re not perfect but i’ve had good luck with C7 ceramic LEDs from amazon.
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!
I literally wait every year for this video.
Did he ignore flicker problems again like last year? Because flicker ruins lights for a lot of us
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.
I actually ran my outside lights on rectified DC power last year because the flicker kills me
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.
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.
But he mentions that there is stuff coming for flicker-sensitive folks.
Never watch a video that ends a statement with a question mark In the thumbnail.
It’s technology connections, chill.
Bad take in this case.
