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Incandescent light bulbs are officially banned in the U.S.::America’s ban on incandescent light bulbs, 16 years in the making, is finally a reality. Well, mostly.

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[–] dmention7@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So don't buy non-replaceable fixtures?

How is removing incandescent bulbs from the marketplace going to increase the installation of fixtures with non-replaceable components, when such fixtures never used incandescent bulbs in the first place?

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It can be difficult. I started asking around about getting recessed lighting installed in my kitchen and they all wanted to install disk lights.

These seem even worse since not only do you have to replace the fixture when it burns out, but you risk having to replace all the fixtures when it varies by color temperature or trim

[–] stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They should charge you less for using cheaper material, reduce labor costs etc and charge the regular rate (like they fucking die before) to install a recessed fixture.

Overall, capitalism and rampant, irresponsible consumerism is to blame for all these quick fix solutions and lack of repairable devices. There is not one person to blame but ourselves for continuing to buy into this bs (literally)