Think if you google long enough, you’ll eventually find a site that let you do nifty things with LEDs and all that.
Offhand I can think of Circuit Cellar and Instructables.
Thanks, I’ll keep it in mind. I’m not really looking for a project, though, just a cheap, quick swap out.
I have some LED smart bulbs that work with the Samsung Smartthings system that I considered putting in the guest bathroom fixture, but it would only be a partial solution… I could manually but remotely turn off the light, but I don’t know that there is a routine that would monitor the length of time that the light is on and automatically turn it off. Plus I don’t know how healthy it would be for the smart stuff in the smart bulb to be turned off & on all the time. Power saving when the light is on would be nice, but not having the light left on for God-knows-how-long every freaking time the stepdaughter leaves the bathroom would be great. I’ve seen flat mount integrated LED fixtures with motion sensors for around $20 on Amazon, but most of them turn off the light 30 seconds after last motion detected - that’s just too short of a time span, like you don’t want to have to wave at the light twice a minute if you’re in the shower. (I assume the shower curtain would block the motion sensing.) I haven’t seen any with longer or variable shut off times for under $40, which makes it more than a whim purchase for me.
We’ve been slow to move to LEDs for a lot of uses as they do seem to die surprisingly often. I hope the under-the-counter ones for the kitchen work well… That’s really the only under-counter option that’s easy to get now.
I love the idea of LEDs, but in practice they seem less reliable than they claim. As I’ve said before, if I ever move and have a dedicated office, I’m totally looking into the Phillips Hue or similar.
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We are seriously thinking of downgrading our products to WinNT4/ReactOS and run our products on a closed and airgapped network, this win10 shyte is farking our delivery schedules up.
Every time M$ change something on their Billywindows shyte, our devs have to figure out what broke and how to fix it. Not ideal.
I replaced a dozen fluorescents in the basement with LEDs. I just took the entire fixtures down and screwed the tombstones into the rafters to hold the new lights. They’re really amazing. I’m getting twice the amount of light from half the number of bulbs at probably 1/4 of the power.
I think both bulbs were by GE, so it’s not the el cheapo house brand that’s failing.
Regarding M$ changes, it used to be a joke about how everything on a Macintosh all looked the same and operated the same. Now we see that’s not such a bad thing. Doing tech support on Windows used to involve asking the users “Are you using Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 or 10?” and sometimes having to identify it by the shape and color of the Start button, so you can figure out what M$ called a particular setting for each version and where they moved it to.
It may not get any better in the future when M$ shifts to “it’s only Windows 10” and you have to dig into, “okay, but what revision of Windows 10 do you have?”
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Hence us thinking of going to something that does not break things when getting patched/updated.
And something that will stay the same consistently across all installs.
It’s that time of year again. Time to Pumpkin Spice all the things!
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I just want someone to tell me it’s OK if I do this and I’m not an a-hole for it. Because I kinda feel like I am.
If it feels right, it probably is right.
I do stuff all the time that would make people think poorly of me. It’s almost always the right thing to do, but is against someone else who is already being an a-hole. I consider myself an anti-a-hole a-hole.
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And that’s the dilemma. It probably is right for me. But there will be hurt feelings and maybe a burned bridge.
I love reading stuff that @Ook writes.
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Sometimes you have to burn bridges so the crazy people can’t follow you.
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An ad for Ugg boots shows up while visiting a website. So where does my mind go with that information?
Over to the Spike Jones song and I start thinking, “Ugga ugga boots, ugga boots boots, ugga. Ugga ugga boots, ugga boots boots, ugga.”
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Dad jokes are wasted on young / ignorant people.
I sometimes say “That’s an onion for the books … I don’t like turnips.” and I just got completely blank looks the last time I said it 
I’m 53 and I didn’t get that one. But I’m not a dad either. 
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I’m with @GITM. I’ve heard “That’s one for the books.”, but ‘an onion’ adds 2 syllables so doesn’t flow the same when I said it out loud. And I’m lost at the turnips.
I don’t think I’ve ever eaten a turnip. I think I’ll keep it that way.
It may be an English saying that Americans don’t use
That’s interesting. Not an American saying, though, which explains why I was confused too. 
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So I should modify my original post to say young / ignorant / American?
Those three being entirely separate categories which may or may not have some overlaps.
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