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That was back when bulbs lasted almost forever until they changed them so they'd break earlier so you'd have to spend money to buy more bulbs. Voyager is like the bulbs of old.
Uh, what. Bulbs last years now.
Y'all are replacing light bulbs?
only bulb i've replaced is the stupid powerful 2000lm smart bulb i have in the ceiling to replace the sun, but that's under warranty so who cares
That's because the cartel ceased to operate almost a hundred years ago...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel
Carrying water for incandescent bulbs on the basis of their reliability is wild. Yeah, several companies have taken advantage of the conception of lightbulbs as a disposable good to cheap out on LED bulb construction until they are also disposable, but they did that so successfully because changing incandescent bulbs was such a common occurrence, it was the template for a proto-meme joke. Not everything in the past was better than things today
Changing incandescent bulbs was common because they lasted too long in the past and were intentionally made less reliable to make more money. It's a cascade of enshittification at this point.