{"id":4543,"date":"2023-04-01T19:31:48","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T19:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=4543"},"modified":"2023-04-01T19:31:48","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T19:31:48","slug":"leds-were-a-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2023\/04\/leds-were-a-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"LEDs were a lie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought myself a $25 80s lamp and it works fine. Turn a switch on, turn a switch off, nice normal light, great.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile I realized that yes, that LED multicolor lamp that I always leave on the same 2200K because I\u2019m not fidgety like that, is controlled by a remote that ate about 6 AAA batteries in 18 months.<\/p>\n<p>Before 2000, you used to pop <em>one<\/em> battery in a remote and be done for 50 years. Not anymore!<\/p>\n<p>So instead of replacing an incandescent bulb every 3\/5 years, I replace batteries (no way to turn it on\/off without the remote) every year.<\/p>\n<p>The opposite of efficiency, right here. Oh, and also:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/see\/uploads\/big\/ab0e79c423a8857218c788fbbd59e7d9.png\"><\/p>\n<p>LEDs mostly suck. The end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought myself a $25 80s lamp and it works fine. Turn a switch on, turn a switch off, nice normal light, great. Meanwhile I realized that yes, that LED multicolor lamp that I always leave on the same 2200K because I\u2019m not fidgety like that, is controlled by a remote that ate about 6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4544,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543\/revisions\/4544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}