Planned Obsolescence is your fault

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(01-01-2019 12:17 AM)Thomas Okken Wrote:  I bought a box of eight no-name CFLs about a decade ago, at $1 per bulb.

That's certainly not European prices. Cheapest I found in Norway is abt US$5,- each and they last almost three days. And the two full days they last, they take abt 3 3/4 hours to get the full light capacity if temp is below 10°C.
In Latvia, the cheapest ones is €1,99. I admit, they last at least a couple of years, but their light intensity dims severly during use. The ones I have outside takes abt 5 mins to reach full light in 0°C and won't even light up at -30°C, which we frequently get in the winter.

As for the references to both Norway and Latvia; I'm Norwegian but moved to Latvia some 8 years ago. Though still work for a Norwegian company as a ships engineer.