It's the Christmas light video again

I love Technical Connections!!

Same! I saw that characteristic lighting in the preview thumbnail and got so excited.

I would be happy if I ever care about anything 1/10th as much as this guy cares about Christmas lights.

Alec out there fighting the good fight for us.

while I disagree with his hatred of blue and green LED christmas lights being too much (I actually love them), I do love hearing about his process to find the christmas lights of his dreams.

I look forward to these videos every year 😁

I feel like this video touched some larger philosophical points about technological progress. It's to work and create with restraints. If there are no limitations you end up with an unfocused mess.

only if you're a shitty designer or a consumer with shitty taste.
- Taste is subjective.

I bought these lights, they're sitting on the kitchen table waiting to be opened and put on a tree! I'm so excited!

He should do one on car headlights... :)

Like this one?
Or this one?
- Oh thanks! Gonna watch these.

I literally wait every year for this video.

Anyone care to sum up in a few sentences what this 20+ minute video is all about?

E: fucking lemmy, lol. Don’t watch youtube! Google sucks! Use alternatives! /asks for a quick summary so as to avoid youtube: lemmy: “Downvote!1!1”

Alec has been on a multi-year quest to get an incandescent color profile from LED Christmas lights. I haven't watched this episode, but he usually does a pretty good job of recapping at the start of every episode.
It's always super entertaining, in my opinion.
EDIT: I watched it. It is indeed super entertaining! This time, the recap comes after his special Christmas light repacking tip, so it's a couple of minutes in.
- Thank you. That would be lovely. I find LED’s flicker sometimes and are too “hard”, they lack the softer, more yellow profile of incandescents.
  Probably what his rant is all about.
You haven't heard of adblock or youtube frontends haven't you or you have the attention span of a goldfish
- Assume whatever makes you feel better.

As always, he created a delightful video!

I'm curious about the options coming down the pike for people that don't like flicker. I heard some of you say that you run your LEDs off of DC power somehow. How do you plug in the string of LED lights to DC power?

Short generalized answer: it depends on the strip / strand... But if the strand has a brick at the end that is converting ac - > dc with 2 wires you can typically replace that with a better driver easily. It gets far more specific when a data line is introduced. It won't fix cheap LEDs outright but it can change how they behave.