cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/19798927
Sure, the whole world is on fire right now, but there are also little things to be upset about. ☝😉
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I have black electrical tape over most led indicators. It’s stupid because now I can’t tell the battery charge on a lot of devices, but I hate the involuntary nightlights everywhere.
You can get tape that’s not clear nor is it completely opaque.
You can find dark colored “clear” style tape.
Alternatively, take a sharpie to some Scotch tape. Color to preference.
I use white electrical tape. It drastically reduces the light brightness but allows enough though to know the light is on.
These are what I use to dim them without blocking them entirely: https://lightdims.com/
Green is too close to yellow in some LED colors, so if you have a yellow indication for an issue with the devices it’s far easier to separate blue-yellow-red indications than green-yellow-red, especially for those who make have deficient color vision.
I’ve been raging lately about the fact that when you put most devices into sleep mode, they begin blinking incessantly. So much for me actually getting any sleep.
White painters tape on top of LEDs generally makes the light a bit smoother and, importantly, less bright.
I have done this to devices with poorly dispersed LEDs.
I don’t charge things at night since I don’t like to be asleep when a battery is charging. This conveniently makes it so I don’t get to see a charging light at night. Everything else is on a power strip with a switch. My bedside light and alarm clock are the only things plugged a power strip without a switch.
The slimline AV receiver I bought for the bedroom has a fucking blue LED standby light. I had to put a piece of electrical tape over it.
Blue is meant to be calming and nice. The brightness probably needs lowered on these chargers.
Blue light makes you awake. They should use red.
Oh yeah, let’s just make the room comfortable for fucking demons and shit.
This is why you should THINK before typing.
You don’t want your room to look like it has a nice cozy fireplace?
So the conclusion is, amber LEDs for everyone
red is more than demons and blood. a warm red light is often much more comfortable than blue
Like being BURNED ALIVE?
I have my computer full of led’s and my monitors right next to my bed do you really all need perfect darkness to sleep?
Every study ever done shows the mental and physical health benefits of dark for sleeping. Worth looking into.
The comments show it’s not the color, but the intensity. Any color too bright is going to be annoying. I’ve got some monitors that have the perfect level for their power and controls, it’s just enough to be able to see in daylight, and not at all in the face in the dark. There’s no reason to have HID lights on electronic indicators (or on automobiles, but that’s a different topic).
It’s the very colour we’re not supposed to see at night though, if we want to sleep.
Sleep studies have found that even the standby light on a TV impacts sleep negatively.
Some electronic devices let you dim the status LEDs in the settings, e.g. for Fritz!Box routers.
Blue is percieved as brighter by the human eye at the same luminosity of other colors.
Also eyelids don’t block as much of it, so can still perceive blue lights with your eyes closed.
Also blue LEDs tend to be more efficient and higher luminosity…
You guys in these comments should all buy light dimming stickers
We shouldn’t have to. Products should be made sensibly and of quality. They’ll skimp and save fractions of a penny on every single facet of a product’s design, so what possesses them to waste all this money on blinding lights that nobody asked for?
to be fair, on my WiFi router, a recent (cheap) TV my mother bought and my Xbox the LEDs are able to be disabled in software, so some manufacturers are catching on.
I had a mine pickup that had a blue LED for the indicator that the buggy whip was on. That thing was a fucking laser at night, shining right into my eyeball. I eventually got fed up and made a duct tape flap to put right above it so I could still tell it was on (my feet would be blue) but my retinas would still be intact
I’m sorry, but what on earth is a “buggy whip”
A tall flag that attaches to your pickup. It has a light on the end.
It prevents this from happening:
Interesting, I think that is about the last thing I would have guessed but it makes sense
Yeah it’s not intuitively named. I suspect the term came from Australian miners that made their way to north america.
Yeah, it’s way worse in vehicles haha. I have an aftermarket entertainment system in my 2006 Matrix – it has three modes: Daytime colours (bright), nighttime colours (dark blue but still bright), and screen off. Highway driving at night means the only real option is screen off. I otherwise really like the system, but it seems like a huge oversight. It seems that none of the developers of these things ever actually test them in nighttime driving/working conditions.
I don’t miss much about the 2013 Prius but it had what was basically a blackout mode, akin to the old Saabs, where almost everything inside the car that was illuminated would turn off.
Great for cruise control on the highway at night.
Electrical tape is cheap
It also falls off too easily. My favorite for this use case is black Gorilla tape. Like duct tape but thicker.
Real Gs open the device and desolder the LED.
I use metallic permanent markers. They apply a nice, thick coating so that the light still works but is severely diminished. It also can be done to some devices without opening them if they don’t have the light recessed too far.
My TV has a red LED that will blind you when the TV IS TURNED OFF
It’s how you know that it’s waiting for your remote controller signals, right? Otherwise how would you know that the TV is waiting. Always waiting. So lonely. Please send it signals!
At least with my LG TV you can switch that off. It’s in general settings “Standby light” :)
But how would you ever know the TV was turned off if it didn’t have a light to tell you?
I laughed at your reply, upvoted, and started to scroll when I remembered my TV has a “screen off” feature. I use it at bedtime to listen to futurama without the light making my sleep bad.
At some point the show stops playing and goes to a menu. You actually wouldn’t know the TV is on if it wasn’t for the light. 😑
To be fair to the tv, it’s not letting you know it’s off, it’s letting you know it’s still on but in sleep mode. TV’s are just giant tablets now. If it was off, you’d have to wait for it to boot into its operating system the next time you wanted to watch TV.
I have dumb TV’s still with the same problem. It’s to communicate that it’s plugged in and receiving power. If the TV isn’t working properly, that’s easy to verify rather than having to worry about the surge protector, outlet, circuit breaker, etc.
The fact that TV’s are “smart” is a whole other issue I could get curmudgeonly about.
I have a TV with a WHITE LED that does this and we have to wait for it to boot. Luckilly, no one sleeps on the livingroom couch enough for this to matter.
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