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[–] SuperIce 37 points 5 days ago (2 children)

That phrase first came out when incandescent bulbs were the most common, so they consumed like 60W vs 7W for an equivalent LED bulb. The brain is somewhere around 20W.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I don't give a damn about Lemmy points, but you just said essentially the same thing as the above commenter and the Lemmy points are diametrically opposed. I love it!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago

Oh yeah? I care even less about Lemmy points. Watch as I fearlessly downvote myself!

[+] [email protected] -8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah and LED bulbs were the norm 15-20 years ago. my point is this is a repost of a Reddit repost of a Tumblr comment that was reposting a factoid that was already wrong when it was originally posted 5-6 years ago.

[–] SuperIce 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Your timeline is incorrect. 15 years ago was 2009, when CFLs were most common. A 60W equivalent CFL was 13W and 100W equivalent was 23W. My house was still mostly incandescent bulbs with some CFLs for bulbs that had died and weren't on a dimmer. Commercial LED bulbs intended for residential use only started being released in 2009-2010 with incentive from the US government.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Ok, not in the US so idk. the last CFL bulb I bought was long before 2009.

Either way, the brain still uses more power than a 13W CFL, and the tumblr post is from 2018, and the Reddit post is even more recent. "It would have been technically correct if it was posted 20 years ago" doesn't really change the fact that it's not true anymore