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I have tape or marker covering all the blue lights that I can. So many small electronics have piercing blue LEDs and I just cannot deal. Bring back the old ruby red console lights please!
My wife always puts black nail polish on those little shits. I love her
But my dude, red LEDs are old and busted, don’t you want to be one of the cool kids and have the new hotness that is blue and white LEDs in everything? You don’t want to fall behind, do you? What will the neighbors and your peer group think? /s
I will say though that new phones NEED to start including the LED indicator. I actually hate how I can’t just glance at my phone and tell if I have a voicemail, text message, missed call, and/or email waiting. Now I have to pick the thing up, turn on the screen, look at what it is, and actively choose to ignore it.
It’s a lot more work.
AMOLED Alway On Displays are your friends. My phone shows the time, battery charge and notification icons, very dimly, everything else is pitch black. It’s better than the blinking led ever was. It sits on the table, if it vibrates, I look at it and decide if it is important or not based on the icon that shows up, then I ignore it anyways.
The problem is, I don’t want a screen always on. I just want the option to have a blinky light.
Electrical tape ftw, but I have also just snipped off the red LEDs of my old sound card. And I’ve spray painted the metal chassis black. Man I hate Creative so much.
wait until you learn about the Rgb soundcard
Lord, I had a cheap PA system for band practice with a blue power LED that felt like it was gonna bore a hole through my eyes.
So I put some duct tape on it.
Then it felt like the light from under the duct was gonna bore a hole through my eyes.
Didn’t know that enjoying comfortable lighting is neurodivergent
The divergence is what sort of lighting you consider “comfortable”, in case you were serious.
Isn’t it generally accepted that directional, dim lighting makes for a more comfortable atmosphere? I doubt that any professional interior or lighting designer would just put a single omnidirectional ceiling light in the middle of the room and call it a day, for good reason. So how is enjoying that neurodivergent? Tbh it seems more neurodivergent to me to be comfortable with bright cold light at home — that’s serial killer behavior, lol.
Seems more like a question of preferences or caring / not caring about something rather than being neurotypical or not.
I doubt that any professional interior or lighting designer would just put a single omnidirectional ceiling light in the middle of the room and call it a day, for good reason.
Well, they might because it’s cheap.
Well sure, but the point is they wouldn’t do it because people prefer it.
Indeed. At least not as a some form of lighting. Better to have area and spot lighting (and flexibility for different moods/situations).
Interesting choice to associate neurodivergence with serial killer behaviour haha
Hyperbole, and the other way around — serial killers are obviously neurodivergent, but of course not all neurodivergent people are serial killers, haha.
Fuck uncovered lighting. I want light, not a blinding light source. Cover that shit up.
It just needs to be warm lighting. Any cool color lightbulbs don’t belong inside a house (unless it’s a workbench or something)
I also use the night mode on my phone and computer 24/7. It gets more red at night.
Warm lighting fucks up the apparent colors of my walls and makes them look quite sickly, because the colors I have don’t mix well with yellow (ime, most bright colors don’t mix well with warm lights, and my colors specifically are mostly in the blue/purple/red side of the color wheel), so you are incorrect.
It’s all about balance; cool lights don’t need to be as intense for the same apparent lumen result. Or, you know, get a shade. I don’t even own any warm lights anymore, but the only real clue is that my walls are the correct color at night…
I guess I just strongly prefer warm colored lighting. Cool colored lighting drives me crazy. To each their own ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
There’s a difference between a 6000k and 4500k light. The latter is still warmer without being yellow. It’s usually bellow 3500k that it starts to fuck up with colors. But, a 6500k or more light will also fuck up your wall colors and make the house look like a factory warehouse. It also makes people look sickly and unnatural, and it is known to trigger headaches and migraines. Also, people’s opinions can’t be incorrect, it’s their opinion. Let them have it.
Dude appreciates a nice sconce
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Harlot lights. Harlights.
I think the lighting in my house would trigger everyone here.
This should be a bannable offense
Please go find a corner to sit in and think about what you have done.
For when you want to recreate the cozy feeling of getting flashbanged
especially if it spins with the fan
But WHY
Previous homeowner installed the fan and it has 3 candelabra sized sockets. Getting regular bulbs for it were far too dim. So I got these. And then the enclosure didn’t fit so I said fuck it.
TBF, I mostly keeps the lights off in my house. I’m currently sitting in darkness on my computer.
No shit, why would you turn the lights on if it’s those lights. Get yourself some illumination customized to your needs before your eyes give up on life.
When I want light. I want LIGHT.
Aziz, LIGHT!
Yes, much better, thank you, Aziz
Ok, fair.
Cheap Chinese housefire bulbs
Not cheap, but definitely Chinese.
OOTL, what am I looking at?
I think those are three of those high powered, high lumen led bulbs. For when you want to simulate looking straight at the sun whenever you look up in your living room.
reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Wait hold on is this something that bothers other ADHD people? How did they know this was an effective threat? Is this wildly known?
Is this why my parents would always turn the light on when I was in a room alone and I was sort of in trouble for forgetting my brother at the park?
Yes, the neuotypicals use the light as a weapon against us, we must rise up and usher in a new era of comfortable semi-darknesss
i’m gonna max your cellphone brightness
My wife has finally learned that I’m ok with overhead lightning, but it can’t be at 100% it actually makes my eyes hurt at max intensity. I’m also a ginger and recently learned we apparently tend to have sensitivities to light as well. I never stood a chance lol
How have you managed to adapt to getting struck by lightning regularly? This is something I’ve been trying to sort out for myself or some time so needless to say I am very curious
Lol, the smartass answer is: not easily. The serious answer for me has been a really good pair of polarized anti-glare sunglasses. I wear glasses myself so the sunglasses are prescription and my regular glasses are also transition. Whenever possible I use lights that can be dimmed and prefer using non overhead lighting. My house has a lot of windows so I will usually keep those open since that bothers me less than the regular lights. But as it gets later in the day my eyes get more sensitive so I will dim/turnoff lights gradually as it gets later. Obviously I’m not always in locations with this much control so sometimes I have to tough it out for a bit. The sunglasses are lifesavers in those instances because they aren’t just dark to help with brightness so I can usually wear them even inside and still be able to see. Sorry for the formatting since I’m on my phone and hopefully that helps at least somewhat.
It really doesn’t bother me, although bare florescent bulbs trigger my migraines.
(psst: widely known, in case it’s not just an autocorrect fluke)
Honestly, I like the other way better. I think I’m switching on this one.
who the fuck invented strong overhead lighting. fixing lights to the ceiling like fucking savages.
can we please go back to the era of cozy desk lamps?
who the fuck invented strong overhead lighting
Well, in the beginning…
Well it’s a good thing to have when it’s evening and you drop something on the floor.
Or when there’s a scsry bug crawling around at midnight.
Whenever I open my window all I ever get is insects. I never get cool little birds, or small woodland creatures. No, just 50 different leggy insect things. None of which appear to be able to navigate out of the giant hole in the wall they just came through.
They can’t navigate themselves out because they want to be your friend.
But in all seriousness I have put up that fine mesh stuff so I can have my window open most of the time without inviting them in.
My partner sometimes likes to fuck with me by switching our light string from warm to blue white color and it makes me hiss like a cat.
I know they’re terrible and gon for a good reason… But.
I miss old school lights. I remember as a kid, around town in the winter. Pitch black at 6pm. -20f, absolutely still air. All you can hear is the hum of the sodium lights. Just the warmest red/orange light.
I’m probably just an old man reminiscing, but the world won’t produce temperatures, light, or silence like that anymore. Now it’s just the harshest led lights, a million beeps, and half heard music on shit ass speakers.
Well, maybe today’s silence doesn’t hum like a sodium light, but it continues to exist. I still enjoy your poetic reminiscence tho.
I have been fishing around for fome heavyweight lighting, can’t even find those 500W halogen ones any more. Just as you say leds with crappy light.
No, the “any color light bulbs” are good either.
All my lights used to be blue white. I wanted maximum light for my light. Lately I can’t stand it, they all have to be warm now. I don’t know what changed.
Am neurodivergent AF. I’m the kind that needs ALL OF THE LIGHTS. Not cool tone (hiss) but neutral to warm toned lights. I need the overhead and any and all lamps at the same time- gotta be lit like a goddamn stadium up in this bitch.
We exist.
My sister would come into my room, and regardless of if I had the light on or off, would flip it to be the opposite. All the while staring and plotting destruction. Day, night, didn’t matter, it would be flipped.
Actual torture technique
ah yes also known as the neurodivergent kryptonite
My apartment still uses U-shaped plugin CFL bulbs in the overhead lights. One literally exploded when turned on. Needless to say, the ceiling lights are almost never used.
They hate us because they ain’t us.
Imma corner you in the store and try to talk to you.
I’ll just cry and make you uncomfortable until you go away
The tears will come when I talk uncomfortably loud while just a little too close to you.
Please, this is too much. I need to lay down for a while.
I stole your weighted blanket. And your squid so you can’t tell the world how you feel about that.
That was just a decoy!! (It’s a shark you were looking for)
I feel like I just witnessed an unnegotiated BDSM scene in these comments.
It’s the noise of a forklift backing up and air compressors for me. I never said a word about it but I noticed one of the factory workers always turns it off when he sees me. Really appreciate it and I give him homemade baked goods.
Think my wife turns on the vacuum cleaner when she is angry at me, but that is probably too cynical.
Edit: ivrofiht
I brought my game boy to school
Edit: no idea what happened there I’m old
do it pussy, i don’t have a ceiling light. Get fucked.
Everyone I know: turns on the keilig spotlight interrogation-quality canned lighting array, flooding the environment with blinding flourescent and/or blue-as-fuck white LED light
Me: aiight Imma head out
…i stocked up on several hundred high-efficiency incandescent (short-life halogen) bulbs the week before retail sales were banned completely, which should last me about three more years despite their pitifully short lifespan compared to traditional (previously-banned) incandescent bulbs…
…while LED lighting’s improved over the past decade and admittedly surpasses notchy-as-fuck compact flourescent bulbs, i can only hope that LED technology evolves further to offer less-abhorrent spectra by 2028, elsewise i’ll be seeking black-market imports after my reserve incandescent bulbs are exhausted…
You’ve been able to buy warm light LEDs for about 10 years now.
I have two right now, also a fancy one that basically looks like an incandescent bulb because of the shading in the glass.
…yeah, and despite marketing to the contrary they’re still all crap at reproducing incandescent spectra, even the ultra-premium cree bulbs…
