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@HeavenlyPossum I’m an electrical engineer and there is an aspect of planned obsolescence shittiness that doesn’t get talked about but pisses me off: LED lightbulbs.

The LEDs basically last forever. It wouldn’t be hard to design a long-lasting power supply to convert the 120 VAC to the voltage the LED uses, using film capacitors that cost pennies more. But nobody even thinks about paying more for something that lasts years longer and what pays is to stuff landfills full of “dead” lightbulbs.