the Good Housekeeping Institute's recent publication of a dishwashing guide for all those young people (2 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds in the UK) who have never learned the ancient art of washing up. In a nutshell, use hot water and rubber gloves, pre-scrape and soak dirty pans, change your water halfway through, and wash in the following order: glasses, mugs, cups, saucers, side plates, dinner plates, cutlery, serving dishes, pans, roasting tins.
While not knowing how to wash dishes is kind of a big deal, it's the whole idea of not being to handle oneself as a versatile, independent adult that is most concerning. Young people lack a wide range of practical skills these days, as revealed in a recent study by YouGov. More than half of young people (18-24) do not know how to set up utility bills upon moving to a new place; 54 percent cannot replace a fuse in a plug; 34 percent can't reset the fuse box after a switch has tripped; 37 percent do not know how to defrost a freezer; and 11 percent is clueless when it comes to changing lightbulbs. (You can see the entire sad list here.)
So what? There's an app for that.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Friday October 06 2017, @07:19PM (1 child)
Sorry, LED lights don't last 20 years.
We installed LED throughout the plant, two years ago. We are already replacing LED strips in the fixtures. The lights start burning a dingy yellow color. You inspect them, and realize that some of the individual LED's just aren't glowing, and the remainder are dim. I haven't done any of them myself, but I've seen the strips laying on the shop table.
If I recall, we put up about 160 fixtures. There are two strips per fixture, making about 320 individual LED strips. There were about 18 strips laying on the shop table yesterday. So, the failure rate is a lot better than incandescent or flourescent. Still, the failure rate says that all of our lights will probably be replaced well before 20 years of service.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 06 2017, @09:49PM
We installed LED throughout the plant, two years ago. We are already replacing LED strips in the fixtures [...] about 160 fixtures [...] 18 strips laying on the shop table yesterday
Hmmm. All 1 brand for the 160? A major brand?
All devices from the same manufacturing run/batch?
the failure rate is a lot [lower] than incandescent or fl[uo]rescent
That part is good news.
I don't even necessarily buy brand name bulbs and I haven't been disappointed since I switched away from incandescents.
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