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   Sini Tuulia (sinituulia@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 30-Nov-2024 02:45:43 JST Sini Tuulia

   Meanwhile, in #LinenCyclingTrousers - I don't know if these will look like anything when done, but more importantly I also no longer care, I just want them done! It's even too dark to get any reasonable photos of it, because NEVER ENDING NIGHT OF WINTER and also capitalism refuses to sell me a lamp that's both pretty and effective but also costs less than 200€. 🙃
   Anyway. I'm putting on the waistband, finally, after a million different intermediate steps. And hating the process.

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     valhalla (valhalla@social.gl-como.it)'s status on Saturday, 30-Nov-2024 02:45:39 JST valhalla

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     • diegor

     @sinituulia @jonobie I'm lucky in that I'm surrounded by LED strips that appear out of nowhere and probably reproduce around the house. I'm sure that @diegor is not involved in buying them every time he sees a new type or anything like that.

     some have been mounted in aluminum strips and they do make *a lot* of light.

     (a few times I may have encouraged him. but usually he doesn't need any encouragement)

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     Sini Tuulia (sinituulia@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 30-Nov-2024 02:45:40 JST Sini Tuulia

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     @jonobie I have a small but efficient work light right next to whatever I'm doing, and that works, but the radius of light is pretty small, and sometimes I have to scoot the lamp right next to what I'm looking at! It's okay for crafting but not for photos.

     I had a wonderful large lamp with an immense lampshade, and it still fit on my windowsill and lit up the whole desk and half the room. Then the cats dropped it, and it's no longer sold... 😢

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     Jonobie (jonobie@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 30-Nov-2024 02:45:41 JST Jonobie

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     @sinituulia ZOMG I have that same complaint about lights that are pretty and effective and not super expensive. My living room is way too dark to do much of any crafting in these days with us being in The Dark Period. :-(

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     Sini Tuulia (sinituulia@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 30-Nov-2024 02:55:55 JST Sini Tuulia

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     • Jonobie

     @valhalla @jonobie I used to have *enormous* industrial warehouse fluorescent lights for my forest of chillies, but I got rid of them thinking I wasn't going to get them cleaned properly enough, nor need them without the plants.
     I am kind of missing the practically daylight levels of noon colour light at any hour I wanted, but damn were they also ugly and ate a lot of electricity.

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     Jonobie (jonobie@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 30-Nov-2024 03:42:32 JST Jonobie

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     • Josh M | Wham

     @sinituulia @valhalla My downstairs where I do daily work has a level of lights obtained from searching for high-lumen lightbulbs that my boyfriend @Wham says is like the surface of the sun. I love it SO much and credit some of my tolerance of the extreme dark here to that. LED light strips and industrial fluorescents seem like they might have some of the same “surface of the sun” effects… ;)

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     Sini Tuulia (sinituulia@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 30-Nov-2024 03:43:15 JST Sini Tuulia

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     • Jonobie

     @mariusor @valhalla @jonobie Effective, of reasonable cost, absolutely do not look like they belong in my decor at all! If I didn't have the cats I'd probably go for one of those enormous but pretty rice paper floor lamps

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     marius (mariusor@metalhead.club)'s status on Saturday, 30-Nov-2024 03:43:17 JST marius

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     • Jonobie

     @sinituulia I use a light therapy lamp for when I need super bright lighting during evenings.

     @valhalla @jonobie

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     valhalla (valhalla@social.gl-como.it)'s status on Saturday, 30-Nov-2024 04:13:42 JST valhalla

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     • Jonobie

     @sinituulia @mariusor @jonobie yeah, also some of the led strips around here are just practical, others actually look *good*, but they do so in a very specific style that won't fit everywhere.

     the ones we use for ambient light are somewhat easier to hide, but then they aren't the very bright, very high colour temperature ones that I use for work, those are more in plain view

     three options, choose two, as usual :(