Did that friend come from the outside?

Because our eyes adapt to our surrounding.

If you always stay in the dark, never putting on the light. Any light will burn your eyes.

But if you are outside and it is sunny, going inside will always be dark.

It's not even good light, either. It's really narrow band light that isn't natural, and so is really bad for fast object recognition and is blinding and glare.

Like using a laser pointer to illuminate stuff, it's just gonna blind you and not really make it easier to see.

And it fucks up your ability to see outside of that light source, like having a really bright monitor in a dark room that you ALSO need to see.

There's a good video explanation somewhere.....

I think this was the one https://youtu.be/Uq7pfrognGM

But it also doesn't even take into account all the other stupid design issues.

Also https://youtu.be/-Lh2wPGKnAM

And

https://youtu.be/D4BAgYQ32RI

It's basically just dumbass advertising and dumbass ignorant people buying into it. Like computer monitor tech when "hd" became a thing or refresh rate on lcds and companies playing fuckfuck number games advertising the biggest number they can. Or speaker companies advertising cheap garbage by how loud it can technically get but it actually sounds like absolute garbage and pisses everybody off when you blast your cheap piss everywhere. I fucking hate these shitty headlights so goddamn much.

Like if would be one thing if it was perfect light and was just bad for ecosystems at night. But no, it's like the loudest, screechiest bullshit screaming light that blinds everybody for no fucking reason AND DOESN'T EVEN MAKE IT EASIER TO SEE FOR THE USER because now you have to also have (you don't have to have) these shields that bar off the top edges of the lights to not blind other people, but now you have this massive contrast edge between shitty blinding light where your object recognition is ass, and DEAD BLACK UNLIT AREA which.... To make matters fucking worse, encourages the user TO TURN ON THEIR HIGH BEAMS FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCKKKK!!!!!

I think it's the interior decorator philosophy of how lighting a residential room works.

For example, a single, central ceiling light is "the big light" , but having multiple lamps and/or wall lights that use warmer, diffuse light are not "the big light".

It's generally seen as cheap, lazy, and bad vibes to use "the big light". Boomer or unaware millennial behavior.

Imagine entering a chill, groovy, warmly lit room, decorated by hippies and feels cozy or not hostile, and comfortable and welcoming and relaxing. That's the opposite of "the big light".

Or I could just be fucking wrong and thinking of something totally different /shrug

Someone gave us one of those salt lamps (bottom middle) when I lived in Florida. I thought my spouse put a glass of cold water on the table it was on and forgot about it till the next day and cleaned up the table forgetting the sweat. So I cleaned it up. Next day the same thing. I picked the salt up and realized it was slowly melting. The humidity was just so high the salt would absorb as much water as it could, then when it couldn't hold anymore apparently just leak it on the table. Ended up putting a towel under it, then just throwing it away and buying a dehumidifier.

As someone who has to drive to work before sunrise, FUCK THESE HEADLIGHTS. I've even seen people with the old style incandescent headlights just having their high beams on as default. People stopped caring about others on the road long ago, but it really accelerated post-COVID.

My “partner” has been with me nearly 20 years and still tries to insist on using the most lights possible at all times and acts obtuse when I ask them not to… some people just refused to be influenced in anyway

When you say “I hate the big light” you mean the central ceiling light.

When I say “I hate the big light” I mean the sun because why is it so goddamn bright outside all the time even when it’s cloudy?!

We are not the same.

I thought it meant the sun because I absolutely hate the sun. Source of all problems.

They're also a security vulnerability and expensive and usually low lumen output.

Natural sunlight is the actual answer. Windows and fresh air!

The answer to what? Cozy artificial lighting existed for thousands of years before smart lights.

Oh haha, that's not the "big light"

Sometimes to a degree if it’s a really bright morning and I just got up but I can adjust to natural light a lot more easily than bright ass fake light on ceilings, the only exception is when the ground is light colored like my driveway is light gray pavers and the reflection of the sun can fuck me up

I regularly complain someone should turn it off or at least dim in.