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If you are silly enough to think that your light bulbs need to connect to the internet or to each other, you deserve what you get.

I'm glad I bought up a stockpile of incandescents before they were banned.



I get your point about internet connected light bulbs, but is there a particular reason you selected incandescents over other more energy efficient bulbs that don't have IoT capabilities?


the quality of light from your average energy bulb is typically terrible. I like warm light and whilst I know I can't see infra-red frequencies I want to see a concentration of light towards that end of the spectrum. It just makes for a much more relaxed feeling.

I stockpiled too. and I have dimmers on pretty much every lamp (including the toilet), so the bulbs last for a very long time. when you don't burn them on full wattage they last much much longer.


They make warm-light LED bulbs.


The perceived color temperature of the light is not the main issue in light quality, but rather the smoothness of the frequency composition of the light. Cheap LED bulbs have a "gappy" spectrum. "High CRI" bulbs are probaably what the OP is looking for.




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