This is more like an unethical life pro tip.
It’s less funny when you take into account that LED light bulbs last longer and can be more expensive.
Also, bravo OP, this takes some ingenuity to think of, Ross from friends would be jealous.
Knowing airb&b, they probably already have an “extra lightbulbs” charge baked in to the cost somewhere…
E: that, or the owner will catch you on spycam and not only charge you but get you blacklisted, too…
Replace your airb&bs spy cams with regular objects to get free surveillance equipment.
The real LPT is always in the comments
Oops, I unplugged the router. Only noticed when I was leaving.
I accidentally held down this little button on the back of the router for 10 seconds, then I accidentally logged in and changed the SSID and password. 🤷
Also your routers shitty default firmware doesn’t support a vpn client, so I accidentally flashed it with OpenWRT.
2/5 stars: Roku TV stopped working.
Also someone stopped by to drop off a letter for you. Said you are being served by the MPAA. Whatever that means lol. Would not recommend.
This is the way. I really do love @GluWu@lemm.ee’s suggestion, but you’d have to find them first, this is far less time and effort consuming lol
You should be OK, unlikely they will bother watching a camera over a few burned out bulbs.
unlikely they will bother watching a camera over a few burned out bulbs
Lol, have you ever met a
leechlandlord?I’m not convinced that they aren’t using the cameras without reason to to begin with, let alone having an excuse to use them. There’s some freaks out there
How funny would it be to switch out every working bulb with a non working one
They sell perfectly acceptable flicker free LED light bulbs at the dollar tree now. This totally isn’t worth the time and effort.
This is legit the third time I’ve read about dollar tree today on lemmy
Air Bed & Bulbs
Dubiously “pro” in my opinion; you stand to gain so very little at the cost of packing glass bulbs in your bag. At least if you can’t swap the lights out for some reason, you can just throw them away at the hotel and confuse the staff. I’d rather not risk shards in my luggage.
Haven’t used a glass bulb in at least half a decade.
Even specialty bulbs are plastic LED mostly
Some LED bulbs have glass globes, though they are mostly plastic, especially the cheap ones.
I’m more concerned about the ones I’m potentially coming home with
Fair but also… You’d be trading downwards if they were incandescent
this isnt even shitty, except light bulbs dotn really burn out anymore
Not like they used too, but still do. Built a new home, and in less than 2 years, several of the cheap contractor grade bulbs have burned out.
yeah I do start to wonder if this “contractor grade” stuff means shit tier. Also arent contractors generally trying to cut every possible corner to maximize profit on their bid?
It is the absolute cheapest grade. Usually, they try to hide that fact, but these bulbs literally say contractor-serialnumber lol.
It’s the civilian equivalent of “military grade”.
Yes.
They still burn out pretty regularly for me, probably at the same rate as non-leds.
what are you doing with them 😂
Probably buy them from manufacturers that are still part of lightbulb conspiracy 🙃
Was there a fire station in California that had a light bulb from like 1906 that stayed on for like 100 years? This might explain a lot.
There still is likely, but it’s not because it was great more of never being turned off, it probably won’t ever turn again.
Probably pulling a Mr. hands
The safe word is Enumclaw
They still burn out pretty regularly for me
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Make sure your fixtures are ventilated. Prolonged heat degrades the capacitor until the power supply dies. The LEDs themselves are generally fine.
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There was a cap plague a few years ago and cheap bulbs got the worst of it.
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Until recently, super bright versions (150w-200w equivalent) only came from off-brands because none of the name brands wanted to put their name on something unreliable.
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If still have regular problems with the LED bulbs, buy them from the dollar store. They probably won’t last any longer, but if they’re gonna die on you anyway, the cheap ass ones from there still provide the same light as the better known models.
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As others have mentioned, there’s something wrong with your setup. Your entire home should probably only be going through 1-2 replacements per year, vs replacing nearly all of them every year (as was the case with 1000-hour incandescents)
They might. Usually it’s the transformer, though. And even the LEDs will degrade over time.
yeah but it takes such a long time
