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Cursed plumbing (media.piefed.world)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)

Poorly made LEDs actually flicker at 120Hz on 60Hz mains, see my other comment. And it's more like a pet peeve, only below 60 Hz is actually headache-inducing. Unless it's specific circumstances (I couldn't stand a cheap 120Hz PWM RGB strip close to a gaming monitor because I'd see annoying "rainbows" as my eyes dash across the screen). More details in my other comments.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Very interesting! My pet peeve is glare and LEDS produce an ungodly amount of glare and I absolutely hated them in car headlights. I've never heard of anyone irritated by hz that high before. The more you know. Thanks for clarifying.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    Glare? That's not a physical property of LED light but an effect of overly bright headlights enabled by LED and laser technology.

    Except my eyes do a kind of color aberration where I see different wavelengths in slightly different spots when squinting, and the peak of blue that most white LEDs' spectra have makes for a clearly visible fringe. I wouldn't really call that "glare" though.

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