the news outlets will also get priority routing to the weather service and like posted above the site will have load balancing and parallel content servers likely under heavy traffic the content servers are NOT all up to date and getting updated slowly and that causes "jerking" / stutters

@RRK

No Sony Trinitrons mentioned?

Sony Trinitrons were one of the best tallies but we never had any in our shop other then the one we owned our self so cant talk to the build quaity except OLD SONY electrical gear was top notch and newer less so (around 2000)

look at it "wrong" and you get 3 OV-50s
that is the worst lean I have ever seen but out my way the ground is all big so a pole with that lean is going the rest of the way the moment it got bumped
to me looks like the office doors to a mall over a "big box" type store

the DRL thing and "drivers" forgetting there lights is such a big issue in Canada they passed a LAW  that tail lights come on with DRLs OR full lighting turns on at night unless there is NO cluster lighting on without headlights
got a bunch of MACK AN trucks at work and had to reprogram that feature on to be "legal" for sale as the factory did not do it and I have now taken to turning on on all of our mack and Volvo tractors at work
I can back a lorry up using the mirrors and get the trailers straight but if I look through the back window I cant even get the tractor straight to the trailer to hitch up on the first try )-:

BC Canada and BC hydro had BIG campaigns for CFL change over and loads of commercial pot lights were installed during 90s reno jobs that took PL lamps and PL lamp flood lights and "yard lights" where quite common
and Hydro would give away CFL GLS lamps all the time
but Canada predominantly having globally LOW power rates it was a "hard sell" to rip out existing for CFL outside of reno projects
the electrodeless induction lamps in the early 2000's saw more success with some stores retrofitting there mercury high bays to them OR older T12 liniers for high bays

Sometimes I have nothing to say, and feel like commenting "I like this" on every picture it'd be post farming, so I say nothing. Perhaps other members feel the same and that's why you're not getting a ton of engagement.

I agree with Laurens in that 'big' social media is all about the likes, the points or whatever... not to mention all the bots that are used to inflate the numbers. If you comment on popular posts your comment will be one between hundreds or even thousands and the OP will never read it, so it's like screaming into the void.
Echo chambers. Twitter is an extremely toxic site because the algorithm "learns" (pattern recognition) from your likes and in exchange shows you posts that you WON'T like, it's an engagement bait to keep you posting and being part of endless debates, and apparently views generate money, so there's millions of rogue bots posting and making comments to get revenue, some are good enough you don't know it's a bot that's posting until you make a comment and it replies you back with nonsense.

tiktok traps you in a downwards spiral of doomscrolling that shows you worse and worse content the further you go down the rabbit hole

I've never liked that, hence why I'm not in any of those sites and prefer forums or even chill discord servers. The lighting community is apparently pretty niche, I knew when I saw photos of Photonic Induction's house and read one of the admins here actually knows him, that's nice. But, you won't find millions of people interested in lighting, I'm the weird one of the bunch, my "normie" friends have no clue what a diode is, or what CRI is, or why the light produced by an incandescent bulb isn't the same as the one produced by LEDs, but that's how the world is, they're my friends because we share other interests, like... dancing, or pizza, or manga, idk, not like I have dozens of friends either it's only 4 people lol

Just wanted to say I don't ignore posts, I just don't know what to say. This is just me in general, I do the same irl as in I don't know how to respond to certain things, so I stay quiet.

... I did it. It's done. My sportcar is back on the road... finally. I found out an interesting thing online recently:
Apparently there are local Mobile Mechanics available near me, 24/7. I called one last night, and he showed up at 1:20am!
He began work on the car but he could not complete it since he didn't have all the tools required. He showed up for more work around 4pm today.
That stuck broken bolt was also seized, so when drilling it out, he was unsuccessful multiple times.
Anyways, he managed to install the new bolt, as well as the new rear strut that I ordered. The car is driving as if it was never sitting in
a garage for over four months, which is great. I plan on oil changing it tomorrow.
Since that is now out of the way, tomorrow I also plan on cleaning my sportcar as well as my entire garage. But before that, I will be installing
my final two magnetic QMH Wallpacks, AND taking video of them firing up.
I can finally give my motorcycle a rest, and do some fixing on it sometime soon... including/especially the rear brake.

I'm very interested to know if anyone else has seen Warm White Halophosphate CFL's before, here in the U.S. Like I said, I have... but only from that
Factory 2-U store.

some equipment have a watt and VA rating  the VA  is the "aperient" load and watts is the "actual" load
to understand power factor
AC power goes from zero volts up to the peak voltage and back down to zero in a smooth arc and a resistor across that would have the current it takes rise with the voltage and drop again in step with the voltage that is "unity" or 100 power factor
but a discharge lamp might for example start the discharge arc at 1/2 of the voltage rise and immediately start taking full power draw and at half the voltage will double the power drawn and that is what causes the "load" on the infrastructure

grade 12 in highschool a cat decided to climb the power pole and got across the top HV line and the secondary of one of the phases causing a massive spike in voltage on one of the phases before the transformer exploded and 1/3 of the lights ballasts blew up some with a load bang
and the schools boiler pump was cooked so we had NO heat and 1/3 of the lights out for a few weeks as they got everything sorted including replacing loads of ballasts and tubes 1/3 of a schools worth with an enrollment of about 900 students

mid 2000's the garage I worked in was lite with F40 t12 floros and mostly GE value line chokes from the 80's and they liked to fail leaking out the tar in them and letting the magic smoke out sometimes - we had a bucket truck I used to change them