henfredemars

I think you’re just asking when people form their first coherent memories.

This is about 2 to 3 years old.

They don't need to run failure studies. That basic characterization work is mostly already done for you. Component vendors (should) publish tables of mean time between failure for the components you're buying that can be used to get a rough estimation with just a few minutes of effort. Typically it's indexed by temperature, like for caps, but depends on the part.

Now, does the bottom of the market actually use those tables? I can't say for sure. I know one high power headlamp company does this for their LED drivers to balance lifetime with output, but I can't know for sure what every business does.

The LED bulb itself is not typically the reason that these fail. There’s also complex regulation circuitry which consists of far more complex components than a single LED. Electrolytic capacitors and driver circuits can have shorter lifetimes than the actual bulb.

With that said, manufacturers know this, so they also tend to overdrive lower cost LEDs to bring the failure rates in line with the rest of the circuit. This sounds like this may be what has happened to you just based on the dimming, but without knowing exactly how they have wired it up, it’s difficult to be sure.

Why, checking the skin color with their phone wasn’t enough for them?

737MAX

You just might get your wish.

Gray hair can look lovely. I accept

One can’t say the same for skin cancer.

Eat Pray Love.

My god it was so self-important and out of touch.

Even in terms of story, the content is no longer optimized for quality. It’s optimized for watchability which generally refers to the ease of viewing even when you’re not completely paying attention.

They somehow found a way to even further commercialize and mass produce the moving picture.

I think optical media is a dead platform. Hence, there is an apparent lack of interest I think in implementing alternative solutions. I’ve had success with MakeMKV using the docker container approach, but never tried to rip UHD.

The Corpo-inspired future is that you should not get to own any of your media outright. They will decide when you can stream it and to which devices. Piracy is quickly becoming the only viable option if you value your freedom, and it’s a very unfortunate state of things.

Well, yes of course. The US appears to be actively driving away everybody with the exception of Russia and North Korea. It's no surprise then that it's also pushing away Thailand.

Really hope the average Briton is better educated than the average American.

Maybe just maybe a link aggregator and discussion platform doesn’t need to make money. Maybe it can just be good and make the users happy.