I bought these lights, they’re sitting on the kitchen table waiting to be opened and put on a tree! I’m so excited!
It's the Christmas light video again - 2025 edition
Submitted 2 months ago by TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 2 months ago
I literally wait every year for this video.
Nima@leminal.space 2 months ago
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 😁
Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 2 months ago
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.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
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.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
only if you’re a shitty designer.
rollerbang@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Taste is subjective.
Beacon@fedia.io 2 months ago
Did he ignore flicker problems again like last year? Because flicker ruins lights for a lot of us
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 months ago
His obsession over color quality while ignoring the flicker is very annoying.
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
He mentions flicker several times in the video.
Steve@startrek.website 2 months ago
I actually ran my outside lights on rectified DC power last year because the flicker kills me
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Say more about this. I also don’t like flicker
credo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I dunno. I just bought the Sylvannia led traditional white lights. Flicker free. Finally.
Beacon@fedia.io 2 months ago
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.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 2 months ago
As always, he created a delightful video!
curiousfurbytes@programming.dev 2 months ago
I love Technical Connections!!
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Same! I saw that characteristic lighting in the preview and got so excited.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Anyone care to sum up in a few sentences what this 20+ minute video is all about?
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
cepelinas@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
You haven’t heard of adblock or youtube frontends haven’t you or you have the attention span of a goldfish
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Assume whatever makes you feel better.
schwim@piefed.zip 2 months ago
Never watch a video that ends a statement with a question mark In the thumbnail.
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
It’s technology connections, chill.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Bad take in this case.
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
So… You just have a random hate boner for retortical questions…
chunes@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I would be happy if I ever care about anything 1/10th as much as this guy cares about Christmas lights.
lemmy_st3v3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
He should do one on car headlights… :)
hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
lemmy_st3v3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh thanks! Gonna watch these.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I’m curious about the options coming down the pike for people that don’t like flicker. I heard some of you say that you run your LEDs off of DC power somehow. How do you plug in the string of LED lights to DC power?
yggstyle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Short generalized answer: it depends on the strip / strand… But if the strand has a brick at the end that is converting ac - > dc with 2 wires you can typically replace that with a better driver easily. It gets far more specific when a data line is introduced. It won’t fix cheap LEDs outright but it can change how they behave.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
i’m sure they’re not perfect but i’ve had good luck with C7 ceramic LEDs from amazon.
TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Alec out there fighting the good fight for us.