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Re:Doom Running on an IKEA Lamp [video] by loritorto on Monday June 14, 2021 @03:40AM (#27500279)
From wikipedia (Electric light): " In technical usage, a replaceable component that produces light from electricity is called a lamp." EDIT: Yes, later in the same page: "Lamps are commonly called light bulbs;"
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Re:Doom Running on an IKEA Lamp [video] by maybeOneDay on Monday June 14, 2021 @05:43AM (#27500823)
"In technical usage" means that this level of nitpicking isn't really accurate. When you say "they ran doom on a lamp" that isn't a piece of scientific literature. It's just conversational English and as such using the common dictionary definition of the word lamp as opposed to a technical definition is entirely appropriate.
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