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137 points

Seconded, however:

WARNING:

if you go to Technology Connections YT channel, we are not responsible if when you find yourself watching a 6 hour play list on light bulbs

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67 points

Or even worse, six hours of video making LED christmas lights look like the incandescent light from 30 years ago.

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29 points

At least that particular quest is finally at an end

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12 points

It finally ended‽

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The series about the RCA video disc player thing is WILD. That they made that fucking thing work at all is a testament to what can be accomplished if you throw a huge sum of money and enough smart people at a problem .

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13 points

I also have strong opinions about Christmas lights.

Unfortunately, they do not perfectly align with Technology Connections. We agree is almost all respects: flickering is bad, purple is not a valid Christmas color, white lights should be warm and not bluish. I just can’t agree about this one thing though, I LOVE the super saturated colors of LEDs for the red, blue, and green lights. I care much less about the saturation of the yellow and/or orange lights.

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I agree with you, but my excuse is being in the southern hemisphere where Christmas lights must compete with summer evenings. The bold colours do better at early twilight

Indoors though I like the less saturated colours, and lack of options has had my tree lit with warm white only for the last decade - I get colour only where the white light plays off transparent and reflective baubles (decorations, I think they’re called in America) and tinsel

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being in the southern hemisphere where Christmas lights must compete with summer evenings.

That must suck. I don’t even turn on my Christmas lights until the sun’s gone.

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2 points

It’s all decorations, baubles specifically are ‘ornaments,’ though in the deep south you’ll sometimes hear baubles, but generally only when referencing something as frivolous and stupidly expensive, not in reference to Christmas ornaments.

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11 points

WHY is it so hypnotic??

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20 points

The subjects are interesting, the script is tight and packed with insight, and he uses the magic of buying two of them

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9 points

I now say that damn phrase whenever I buy two of anything. No one gets it :(

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