https://youtu.be/oy7BrKNmZAQThe 2025 edition of christmas light autism is here. Looks like his autism is finally paying off, multiple companies are now making good vintage-style lights in various styles. With more innovation still happening (flicker-free LEDs).
>premature grey hairWhat's with millennials and this shit?Zoomers be bald at 25 but millennials have more grey than my Grandfather had at 55.
>>107459788As a millennial who started to go grey at 19, I have no idea anon.
>>107459788idk but can confirm, i'm a millennial who's been greying since mid 20s
>>107459788I know a GenZ who is balding at 18, and another who is getting gray streaks at 22.Something something unreasonable expectations something something way of life is unsustainable something something fall of an empire something?
>>107459767Does /g/ make a new thread for every technology related video that is posted on YouTube?
>>107459956No, but the christmas light video isn't unusual to be posted.
>>107459956zoomzoom
>>107459767Why not just use incandescent lamps. LED Christmas lights of any form are a solution looking for a problem.
>>107459788It’s the microplastics and onions
can you fucks stay on topic
>>107459997Because almost no one makes them
>>107459767It sucks but there is no x-mas spirit left in me.Only autism.But I'm fully agreeing with him colored LEDs are cancer, blue ones in particular.
>>107459767All that effort while a simple ws2811 strip could be tuned to exactly the color any autist could want.
>>107459767I shrimply don't like the strobing effect on LED lights. Incandescents are just better on the eyes.>>107459997Difficult to find nowadays for cheap compared to LEDs.
>>107460172I meant from the manufacturer side. Its wasted innovation when we already had a superior technology fully developed already.
>>107460024for me, it's the ones that got so hot they permanently scarred you as a child
>>107459788>prematureisn't that nigga like 40
>>107460565>I shrimply don't like the strobing effect on LED lightsHe talks about that in the video, apparently, the two main companies behind these new lights are working on flicker-free versions to get rid of the strobing effect.
>>107460720>apparently, the two main companies behind these new lights are working on flicker-free versions to get rid of the strobing effect.Pic related is groundbreaking tech that hasn't been invented yet according to xmas lightbulb companies
>>107459788It's the genetic lottery. My boomer uncle went totally grey in his late 20s.OP is a gay millennial pushing 40 who looks younger because fat face and no woman fatigue.
>>107459767Watched earlier today. Cozy video.
>>107459788Millennials go grey because of prolonged stress. Zoomers go bald because of sodomy.
>>107460172>>107460565I bought two strings of incandescent lights earlier today. They were 1/3 the price of the same strings of leds.
>>107459767Genuinely in awe of the effort this guy goes to to not just buy incandescent lights. They're what, 40 watts per string? I get electrical efficiency is most of his public-facing personality these days but that's like $3 for the month of December. Say 3 strings for the tree and 2 for around the room that's a whopping $15 a year. He's being a grinch.>>107460172There's trillions on Amazon and they're cheap.
>>107463207Yeah LED isn't cheap if you care about quality. I have to use them because dogs, but paying $150 for two strings is more than a little ridiculous.
>>107463436More like 175-275W for C9s. Heat is more an issue than the power cost. They can burn skin so you don't want to have them where animals or small children can touch.
>>107463531Oh I don't use those, I use T1-3/4s they were overwhelmingly more common where I grew up. Much higher surface area to volume ratio and only 0.5W per bulb, can't get much hotter than I figure about 90 degrees F to the touch.
>>107459767Why is it that /g/ keeps calling anything wholesome, interesting and well presented like this video "autism"? have any of you ever talked to one? they're literally retarded and most of the time can't even string two coherent sentences together.kys
>>1074635654chan isn't different from any other social media site and kids on social media sites think autism means you like at least one thing and adhd means at least one thing bores you.
>>107463554Yeah grandad was buying C9s from Mexico before it was cool. Candle luminaries in wax paper bags too. Fuck your climate change and your fire code.
>>107463565'Nerd' and 'geek' are words that have lost all value due to overuse from mainstream abuse, so 'autist' replaced it. For now...
>>107463626Makes sense.
>>107460172>>107460565https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07H729159
>>107464032>amazonSorry I still drive to stores to buy things instead of paying bezos to track my daily life.
>>107459788We are being sacrificed to Moloch by the Jews.
>>107463436>in awe of the effort this guy goes to to not just buy incandescent lightsWatch the video, he even says he found a good set of incandescent lights this year and bought multiple sets.He still thinks LED lights are better technology that just needs the right people to pay attention and develop better LED Christmas lights that can meet or exceed vintage incandescent Christmas light quality, and over the last 3-4 years we've finally gotten close so we can have low energy use AND classic Christmas light glow
>>107464173Nobody cares about energy use. People leave LED Christmas lights on 24/7 because running LEDs is free lol.
>>107460710Yeah but anons here seriously believe they can be like Chuando Tan
>>107464083That's fine but don't complain about availability when you haven't checked. I bet you say why isn't the mainstream media covering this.
>>107464291Less of a fire hazard, can string dozens of lines together on a single circuit without popping breakers or blowing fuses, and they'll probably last decades before a bulb goes out.
>>107465612>Less of a fire hazardNot really.>can string dozens of lines together on a single circuit without popping breakers or blowing fusesFor the price of dozens of Tru-Tone strings you can do some pretty serious electrical renovation.
>>107460024go to /v/ if you want to stay on topic
>>107459788My grandfather had completely white hair in his 50s.
I have christmas lights dating back to 1976 that still turn on. I'd say 90% of them do. I also have a newer set from mid 80's or so that used to blink, but these are mostly dead.
>>107459767i really wish this fat homosexual would stop shilling his videos on this board. we know you use /g/, you fat fuck.
>>107466380How do you know for sure? Some people get shilled here regularly just because somebody hates them, and shilling them inevitably causes other schizos to hate them as well for no reason other than the shilling itself.
>>107466415there was a thread around a year or so ago. faggot was shilling his videos here. he had made a few videos where he's just nothing but passive agrgessive with the viewer. anons told him to stop doing that fucking shit. magically.. next video: happy happy joy joy. yeah, we know he's using board. just like the other fucking insufferable youtuber faggots that think /g/ is an advertisement board so they can make google shekels. and when they're not shilling their cancer here, their mining the board for topics to talk about. Lundpuke/duke or whatever that jew's name is constantly does it. he too shills is trash videos here. ALL youtubers should be banned from the site. they contribute nothing. they're just leeches on the asshole of society.
>>107459788Probably from spending our life stressing over how to survive to the next day thanks to our unreliable boomer parents.
>>107466470Relax, it's christmas.
>>107466380>>107466470Yes it surely can't possibly be the fact he has almost 3 million subscribers and his videos go down specific niche tech related autismo rabbit holes that appeal to /g/ users with similar levels of autism.You're right, he MUST be here personally shilling his Christmas light video.LolLmao evenTake your meds anon.
>>107466499It certainly is the season
>>107459788i started going grey at 15
>>107466470TN fag is an actual journalist who blew the lid off Consumer Reports colluding with mfgs to fuck their subscribers. If he never does anything useful for the rest of his life, he'll still be a really big deal. Lunduke is a slimy trust fund kike who makes no brow division porn.
I'm looking to install permanent lighting in a house that I'm renovating. Something like "bulbs fixed under the soffit that can be controlled".The main use is for decoration on major holidays (New Year, Halloween, Christmas), but also as general lighting when needed.Any tips for this? Ready made technologies that can be used?I have HomeAssistant and a ton of ZigBee stuff, plus 2-3 Raspberry Pi and a handful of ESP32 boards, relays, transformers, etc.
>>107469463They're called soffit lights, and yes many companies make RGB addressable versions.
>>107469463keep in mind what was mentioned in end of the video - overlighting , however that can be resolved if you use addressable lights for brightness controlthis exact picture is simply light pollution for yourself and others. why do you want lightbulbs right outside your windows? why do you want your entire facade lit 360 degrees?
>>107459788>>107459820I was born with strands of grey hair around temples.It was pretty neat but not I'm getting bald way before I will get all gray.
>>107469463Just get a bunch of chink RGBCCT zigbee bulbs and a generic socket light chain.
>>107459788>prematurethat's what a 40 year old nigga looks like, retard. not everyone is a holywood actor who can spend a bajillion dollars on sacrificing goyim children to retain youthful looks. touch grass.some guys are lucky and look 30 until they're 60 but most don't
>>107470869They'll look like shit up close during the day, but they'll look fine at night from a distance.
Where can you even buy cheap incandescent bulbs anymore?
>>107470869Is it possible to make animations with such a setup? Something like a list of patterns that can be cycled through as like Christmas light strings.I haven't seen anything like it in HomeAssistant.>>107470108>why do you want lightbulbs right outside your windows?All Christmas decorations would be outside my windows, so this point is moot. For the other 11 months, I would turn on maximum 2-3 bulbs per side as needed, like regular outdoor lights.>why do you want your entire facade lit 360 degrees?Again, decorations. This would be very infrequent, and indeed each bulb would be very dim, think 0.5W or less. Perhaps I didn't choose the best image, annoying the neighbors is not my goal.
>>107466470>their mining the board for topics to talk aboutIt's genuinely embarrassing how many MO and LS videos are just them stealth reading a /g/ thread as if it's their opinion piece. Nothing about ecelebs has ever given me more joy than the fact they schizoed out and ruined their lives in the countryside.BR, stop leaving dirty dishes on your desk during filming. It's fucking disgusting.
>>107471556>HomeAssistantYou wouldn't. That's not what HomeAssistant is for. The correct Google query term for this is "Light-O-Rama" and the main off-the-shelf solution is xLights, although I think more installations than not just use shoddy custom Python scripts.
>>107471527Lots of places. Try searching for appliance bulbs or rough duty.
>>107471620>Light-O-Ramahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwOb1eDINB0Sweet baby Jesus, that's fucking epic! Yes, I want something like that except a bit more DIY and less $$$, a Cheap-O-Rama.>>107469854Checking these out, lots of options but quite limited in terms of controllability.
>>107459788>premature grey hairMillennials are in their late 30s and 40s. You'll be bald forever zoomer.
>>107459788Instead of being populated with high quality genetic winners, celebrity is mostly plebs nowadays. You're expecting apex beauty from the average person. That's your failing as a simpleton.
>>107459788I think it's the lack of sun. Zoomers look older than Millennials because they don't use sun block, but I think the sun keeps your hair from going grey.
>>107472502You're confusing manufactured idol golems with organic celebrities. Good journalists are very seldom beautiful people.
>>107459767> New ChristmasUm, I'm pretty sure it's called Holidays nowadays. Let's try to be more inclusive.
>>107474376advent, the feast of the immaculate conception, the 12 days of christmas, the feast of the nativity of the lord, and auld lang syne
>>107459788I think he's gonna look good with grey hair, I can see it giving him a distinguished look
>>107460797just throwing one cap in there would make it flicker worse.muh led flicker is a meme anyway, ive literally only seen it with shitty cheap rgb controllers and only in specifically the "change colors constantly" mode (which is for faggots)
>>107459788Mineral deficiency. Copper particularly.
>>107464140Moloch is really scaling down his operations if all he needs is hair pigmentation.
>>107471558>are just them stealth reading a /g/ thread as if it's their opinion pieceit's because they're devoid of any actual intelligence to come up with their own ideas or to write original material. similar shit with wikipedia. there was a moment around a year ago i was doing something in another room and had this yotube video playing (something about electronic music, i forget who). and i suddenly hear him say word-for-word what i added to a wikipedia page about some shitty synth. i rewrote a lot of it because it was originally done by someone that clearly knew nothing about synths. surreal hearing your own words read back to you by a stranger on the other side the world but it was just yet another stark reminder how absolutely fucking lazy these cunts are. some youtubers are so bad at basic research they've made a video about (whatever topic). open the wikipedia page first, press play on the video, and you can see they're using wikipedia as a script. embarrassing.
>>107460797Anon, this doesn't do anything to reduce flicker on an LED. They're either on or they're off. That's the whole reason they're monochrome. There is only one relevant energy transition. Yes the professionals are smarter than you.
>>107477347>They're either on or they're off.LEDs have variable intensity depending on current. This is middleschool shit.
>>107459767did this fucking guy actually have a menards christmas sweater custom made? lmaofor those that don't know, menards is a hardware store in midwest USA and "save big money" is the jingle they play over the speakers nonstop and presumably to schizos in padded rooms in fucking mental hospitals.
>>107477936>have custom Menards sweater made>dont get 11% mail-in rebategrim
>>107459788gays age faster due to well you know. He'll look like an old lesbian soon enough.
>>107469463My dad just did this on his house and used Permatrack which uses WLED. You put in the length you want and they ship you everything you need to get it installed and working. 200ft cost about $1600. Ignore the lights around the garage door, those are just normal lights.
>>107478646This was before he installed the arches.
>>107459767He's looking more and more like an old lesbian
>>107466415Stop misusing words. Shill means paid advertisement it's not a drop in replacement for stan.
>been researching warmer light led bulbs because i miss old incandescents.>starting to feel nostalgia for sodium lights outsidemaybe its something millenials go through. but theres been lights in my house that have been pissing me off with how cold and blue they are
>>10747977193 fag here. I agree 100% get Philips hue if you got it the money. Being able to make shit warm lighting is a godsend.People living with library lighting in their living spaces is heart breaking if I'm being honest.
>>107478731>>107478646Very nice and very close to what I had in mind, I like it a lot.My house is even smaller than yours (no garage) and the distance to neighboring houses is a whole 2m (luxury by English standards).>PermatrackShipping only to North America, I need to find the bong equivalent. Their website is very useful!
>>107463436If you watch the video, he says he bought incandescent
>>107459833millennial here, fit as fuark but no drugs and no creatine. long full almost jet black hair (im huwhyte btw), but my beard started going white in my 20s. so i keep clean shaven. weirdest thing.
>>107481435also millennial here. I didnt get grey in my beard till around 40, but I started losing my hair way earlier. Same thing with my friends. My conspiracy theory is that its caused by too much amoxicillin as a kid or the luke warm 2% milk they served in elementary school lunch
>>107481499get the fuck out... WHAT.... I was on amoxicillin for YEARS as a kid because of chronic bronchitis which was actually just allergies because of all the vaccines and my house being a literal like greenhouse full of weird plants raping my airways.
>>107481499by this i mean im stunned... we both had amoxicillin cocktails. does it cause weird hair shit?*!?!?!
>>107480779>watch the videonah, we don't do that here.
>>107481554>>107481563I have no hard evidence its amoxicillin. However, I was born in 83 and graduated in 2001. Many people in my class and those just a couple years older or young all seem to be losing a lot of hair or going grey early etc. Trying to find a common thing between people of different grade years and various other location and differences...its hard to not to look at the gallons of amoxicillin we all had and think that maybe that had some lingering side effects.
>>107481638I've had amoxicillin like 2-3 times in my entire life and I started greying in my early 20s.
>>107481638yea wouldnt surprise me. amoxicillin and minocycline were given out like candy then. thank god i never got accutane. im 2 years younger than you. on the bright side, my test levels are excellent and I can beat the shit out of any zoomer at a variety of sports and combat.
>>107459788Having a global financial crash every 3 years has given me more than a few gray hairs
>>107481694>>107481701hey it might not amoxicillin, it could be those awful juice drinks with the foil on top that never tasted right. Or the "ice cream" cups you had to eat with a wooden stick
>>107459788Insane stress, my beard is graying.
>>107481759My beard is red/brown, until it hits my neck then it comes in white as snow.
>>107481786Me too but on the sides of my chin.
>>107481745I still eat hoodsie cups but they changed the chemical processing on the wooden spoon so it doesnt taste right. less arsenic probably.
>>107477480LEDs have variable intensity depending on the PWM average current. They have constant instantaneous intensity above or below a single threshold voltage. That's why PWM is the only way to dim them. A capacitor will just make them stay on longer and be brighter.
>>107459788that's not premature.30s/40s is the normal age people start getting grey hairs.
>>107460172incandecant bulbs are easy to find, they sell them at walmart for half the price of LEDs, but what money you save you'll more than pay back in your electric bill.
>>107482146That's completely wrong. You can pull up any circuit simulator page and make a linear LED dimmer, or just make one yourself with a couple resistors and a LED. If you had literally any electronics building experience you would know this. LEDs have a forward voltage requirement which must be met to turn on, but once they're on brightness varies depending on current through the diode.Example circuit https://falstad.com/circuit/circuitjs.html?ctz=CQAgjCAMB0l3BWcMBMcUHYMGZIA4UA2ATmIxAUgoqoQFMBaMMAKDAwBZwOu08QUHKn3DJ4UaAmzFC8OXIgAlOgGcAlioAuAQwB2AYzptCKAUIH4Q2NBf6mAJnQBm2gK4AbTQ3d17oqgGwrADmVjYi2IR2lgEsiuDEpmCJCUlgpgEg5kiZMAgsoWA8tiAyJbFAA
>>107482355>electric billA string of 100 lights at winter rates costs about $3 to operate for the month. That means it will take a decade for your LED string to pay for itself which is long enough and low enough nominal cost for that calculation to be distorted by inflation so it will actually take even longer PPP normalized. But people like you will spend an extra $30,000 on a car to save $100 a month in gas so you can't be reasoned with.
>>107460710Thought he just acted old, are you saying he's not in his late 20s?
>>107483259I think he's mid/late 30s, not quite 40.
>>107482355>Worrying about your electric billKek libtard detected
>>107459767Buy an ad, faggot.
>>107482844>spend an extra $30,000 on a car to save $100 a month in gasThe UK government encourages homeowners to install solar panels for £10k in order to save £200 per year, and floor insulation for £10k to save another £100 per year.Retardation as a national policy.
>>107484630Very weird to not see windows on this list, a properly installed vinyl frame low-e glass window will pay for itself in 2-3 years. At least in America. I think in the UK they have smaller windows so maybe it matters less.
>>107484720The house they issued that recommendation for already has PVC windows. They are very bad and old, but "double glazing" is all that matters around here.>low-e glassAlien technology, even more alien than electrical sockets in the bathroom.
>>107484720>Very weird to not see windows on this list, a properly installed vinyl frame low-e glass window will pay for itself in 2-3 years. At least in America.This sounds mega retarded, no offense. You're telling me new windows will drop my electric bill by more than half? idk that you know how expensive windows are.
>>107472569>femoid10+ years of caking your face in chemicals called "makeup" will do that.>>107479771No, it's only something autists go through. People who aren't autistic don't feel nostalgia over lightbulbs and concave televisions.
>>107482596Glad to see there are still people with basic knowledge on this board
>>107481499>>107481638It's genetics, plebs. It comes from the males on your mother's side of the family. If they're bald, you're going to be.
Thanks, the ones I wanted are sold out for this year, but I placed an order for summer/fall 2026 delivery
>>107486941>9 month waiting list for injection molded plasticThey need to hire someone with actual manufacturing experience to fix their production floor and also drastically raise the sticker price in the meantime.
>>107486949I mean, I only need them for christmas time, so it's irrelevant to me if they ship in 2 months vs 9 months.
>>107486949There's no point trying to get ambitious about production on something like that. If you're right and everyone wants them, your best case is getting bought out for the name. On the other hand, if you do it half-ass for ease of mass production and fail, you haven't proved anything.
>>107469081>TN fag is an actual journalist who blew the lid off Consumer Reports colluding with mfgs to fuck their subscribers.Wut
>>107487995watch the dish washer video
>>107459788a girl and i bonded in 7th grade because we both had grey hairs ... its probably the result of something in the water or vaccines they gave millenials
>>107460703Ah what a great jewish idea. Tell everyone to put heating elements all over a dry dying tree.>>107460797>>107460565(((companies))) are obligated to spend less money, so they leave out half wave rectification. fully rectified COB LEDs are very nice.>>107463565His content is wholesome, and also highly autistic. Most people don't care about how their dishwasher or EV charger works.>>107466001>led bulbs that use less power and are cool to the touch are as dangerous as bulbs so hot they burn you
>>107459767I bought a sexy dress for Christmas, I'm going to fist 2 naughty boys.
>>107459788Jews go grey fast.
>>107488085Thanks for the update Alec. I can't wait to see what you do next! >>107479897>wifi light bulbs>>107479771Sodium lights are objectively better at night time.
>>107488020>a girl and i bonded You married her And your kids were born with grey hair right?
>>107488061>led bulbs that use less power and are cool to the touch are as dangerous as bulbs so hot they burn youIn terms of starting fires they're not appreciably different. Incandescent C9 lights were adopted to replace actual candles on the tree, and the power envelope is specifically just low enough not to ignite dry pine needles.
>>107459788As a not balding 36 yo millennial with all of my hair black, I have no idea what you're talking about.
>>107469463>>107478646>>107478731>>107472065All this looks tacky AF. Worse than that, it's a maintenance pain in the ass when they stop working in a couple years.
I didn't watch this video, but I did pick up a $3.50 pack of christmas lights at Walmart and they are total trash. They didn't work at first because one of the lights wasn't even connected - dangling loose live wire - and after I fixed that, they are incredibly flickery. Must have been 60hz but felt worse. Threw it in the trash.
>>107488858Back in my day you could buy entire Christmas tree with lights, ornaments, garlands and baubles!
>>107488803>tackyIt's decoration for special occasions, not day to day use.>maintenance painThe point is to have serviceable components that are readily available. I agree that it's easier to buy new than to maintain and repair, but I hate doing that.Grocery store light strings have to be thrown away when the proprietary controller or wiring fail.
>>107488879Pretty sure you still can
>>107490570yeah i saw some good pricing the other day
>>107459788At 40, I'm still not graying or balding yet. I don't know why I still come here.
>>107463436It's not just about what you buy, it's about what your neighbors buy. If you don't want the rest of your world to look like shit, you have to replace the blue LED shit the goycattle are buying with better LEDs because they are simply not going back to incandescent.
christmas lights benchmark when?
>>107491795Hard to when a lot of it is subjective.Some people actually LIKE the searing bright blue LEDs.
>>107491785This, you can't just keep buying incandescent sadly.
>>107459788>live through 6 once in a lifetime events in a row>grey hair and balding at 34I can't claim the two are related but I know far too many men in this category
