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[-] scibra122@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

Carrying water for incandescent bulbs on the basis of their reliability is wild. Yeah, several companies have taken advantage of the conception of lightbulbs as a disposable good to cheap out on LED bulb construction until they are also disposable, but they did that so successfully because changing incandescent bulbs was such a common occurrence, it was the template for a proto-meme joke. Not everything in the past was better than things today

[-] Don_alForno@feddit.org 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Changing incandescent bulbs was common because they lasted too long in the past and were intentionally made less reliable to make more money. It's a cascade of enshittification at this point.

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