While they are dying out, you can still find incandescent bulbs. While these were once totally common, they’ve been largely replaced by LEDs and other lighting technology. However, you still …
I’ll tell my completely unprofessional and subjective opinion, as someone with migraines and preferring moderately illuminated (like sum of moonlight and general city light pollution multiplied by two) spaces.
A room with old light bulbs on is a lot more bearable for me than a room with LEDs on.
I suspect this is about spectral characteristics (softer and more dispersed orange light, if that makes sense), which can be mimicked by modern technologies, it’s just that we again live in a time when nobody cares about subtle things affecting quality of life.
EDIT: didn’t erase unconnected thoughts further.
But - everybody cares about getting a new unusable touchscreen phone every year or so. BTW, why touchscreens? Because you have to choose things or scroll things or zoom in&out things, sometimes enter small amounts of text. It’s literally designed to be of limited use for anything important with other things equal, and that’s intentional, because when a device becomes more useful than that, users start having opinions and demands and one can’t have that “predictable progress” with new “flagship phones” and other such stupidity, this is also the reason for industry as a whole going bad`. A touchscreen does not make a device more usable in some other situations.
UI and UX are good when they are predictable and bad when they are not. Even a child or a completely non-tech person will do things more efficiently with a physical keyboard. They’ve just been gaslighted into thinking differently.
I prefer physical keyboards, too, as do many others. It turns out those of us who spend a lot of time composing text are outnumbered by those who do more content consumption, though, so the surface area is given to touchscreens, and profit-driven manufacturers seldom bother with keyboard models any more.
As for light quality, yep, incandescent bulbs were generally more pleasant. But not so much better as to justify the pollution now that we have 8 billion people on this planet.
Almost every LED in my house is the filament style. You would love those. Great company I linked. I wrote them for advice and got a long, technical and accurate reply.
I’ll tell my completely unprofessional and subjective opinion, as someone with migraines and preferring moderately illuminated (like sum of moonlight and general city light pollution multiplied by two) spaces.
A room with old light bulbs on is a lot more bearable for me than a room with LEDs on.
I suspect this is about spectral characteristics (softer and more dispersed orange light, if that makes sense), which can be mimicked by modern technologies, it’s just that we again live in a time when nobody cares about subtle things affecting quality of life.
EDIT: didn’t erase unconnected thoughts further.
But - everybody cares about getting a new unusable touchscreen phone every year or so. BTW, why touchscreens? Because you have to choose things or scroll things or zoom in&out things, sometimes enter small amounts of text. It’s literally designed to be of limited use for anything important with other things equal, and that’s intentional, because when a device becomes more useful than that, users start having opinions and demands and one can’t have that “predictable progress” with new “flagship phones” and other such stupidity, this is also the reason for industry as a whole going bad`. A touchscreen does not make a device more usable in some other situations.
UI and UX are good when they are predictable and bad when they are not. Even a child or a completely non-tech person will do things more efficiently with a physical keyboard. They’ve just been gaslighted into thinking differently.
I prefer physical keyboards, too, as do many others. It turns out those of us who spend a lot of time composing text are outnumbered by those who do more content consumption, though, so the surface area is given to touchscreens, and profit-driven manufacturers seldom bother with keyboard models any more.
As for light quality, yep, incandescent bulbs were generally more pleasant. But not so much better as to justify the pollution now that we have 8 billion people on this planet.
The unrelated bit about touchscreens: i like the one in my notebook, combined with keyboard use.
Btw: illuminate a wall and you get that soft and dispersed light.
“Combined” is fine.
If you mean light dispersed from the wall, then yes. If you mean semitransparent something illuminated from the inside, hell no.
Almost every LED in my house is the filament style. You would love those. Great company I linked. I wrote them for advice and got a long, technical and accurate reply.
Buy led lightbulbs with lower light temperature, they are quite similar to old bulbs.
Also illumination has a lot to do with the luminaries more than the bulbs themselves.