Anyone still using the (not) government mandated CFL bulbs that have to warm up and won't dim?

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answer:I’m not sure what I’ve got in my bathroom… they say CFL and mercury disposal on them, and they do take a little while to get bright, starting out fairly dim even though I have four of them that go on at once, but they don’t seem to take all that long to get bright. They have a corkscrew element inside a glass ball. I’d think they were fine, except I do dislike that they make a humming sound.

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