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A lightswitch so good they made it illegal

4 pointsby caxco93over 2 years ago

3 comments

rektideover 2 years ago
Mercury switch, which is dead silent.<p>Very fragging annoying we have seemingly made no effort since. There&#x27;s a lot of obnoxious buttons that dont make sounds, but I&#x27;d really really like actual switches that dont make super loud clacking whacks.<p>I replaced a bunch of switches with dimmers, and that&#x27;s ok, but it seems absurd to me how obviously underserved, how unchanging the popular tactile system is. Iterate please, dont disrupt! Buttons are easy to make, but such a tactile downgrade.<p>Ditto for door-knobs. Maybe I&#x27;m missing something but the bolt-action klack is so loud. Cant we, like, damp that? There just doesnt seem to be a market for non-shitty house-gear.
rsclientover 2 years ago
A little bit click bait. It&#x27;s not illegal because it&#x27;s &quot;too good&quot;. It&#x27;s illegal because it&#x27;s full of poison (mercury).<p>And weirdly, I can&#x27;t seem to find any actual laws naming them. There are laws about mercury waste such that I bet it&#x27;s not practical to make and sell them, but I don&#x27;t see any actual bans (except maybe in europe where they have the rohs standards)
bradknowlesover 2 years ago
The sound is part of the intentional feedback. You need that in addition to the tactile feedback.<p>Otherwise, how would you know if it has done its job?