Why does every small appliance or useful home electronics item have the BRIGHTEST LEDs in them?
I bought a new fan for our bedroom Sunday. It has 4 speed settings, and LEDs to display which setting you’re on.
Just like every other electrical device in our bedroom, I had to cover the LEDs with electrical tape because they are TOO DAMM BRIGHT. That one light was more than bright enough for me to see in the room with all the lights off.
I can’t sleep well if there’s a lot of light like that, especially blue light, and it’s like every fucking electronics manufacturer used the same extra bright blue LEDs.
All of our power strips have them. Same brightness.
The fans have them.
Don’t even get me started on digital clocks and the plague of bright LEDs that they bring about
Many charging plugs have them built into the plug itself.
Even some fucking light switches have them now!
I have about 6 different things in our bedroom that have electrical tape over their completely unnecessary LEDs.
Why has this become such a common thing? Is this really something most people want? To have a room that is never actually dark even with the lights turned off?
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Electrical tape is the real hack. I used to use painters tape until I saw a comment on reddit about it. Electrical tape 100% blocks all of the light with just one or two layers. It rocks.
Bright LED’s are unnecessary. Hell, most LED’s are unnecessary.
Even the small white leds on my pc are annoying, I’ve recently used a black sharpie to dim them, it did wonders.
I have black bicycle tape for this exact reason.
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Goes with nothing ever turning off any more. If it all shut off, no lights.
I bought a snowball microphone. It has the brightest goddamned red led on the front. It juts out like some rectangular boil and it’s annoying as it is ugly.
So I had to cut off some black electric tape to cover it. The light is ALWAYS on. Maybe it’s to let you know it could be recording, but since it’s always on no matter what I’m doing, being always off is the same thing.
I’ve taken too darkening them with a sharpie.
At least you don’t live in Japan where everything sings to you
Sadly appliances with useful dimming options are getting very rare.
In the same boat as OP and other commenters: electrical tape and sharpies FTW
More cyberpunk vibes
The team that invented blue LEDs won a nobel prize.
Now every fucking item in my room has a beacon that would put the eye of fucking Sauron to shame.
100% agree with you, and have started destroying LEDs where possible.
Yah agree with your rant but black electric tape was my solution too.
I have opened up devices to physically remove the led. SMD LEDs stand no chance against a steady hand and a precision flathead screwdriver.
precision flathead screwdriver
Ah yes. Just like my precision printer adjustment mallet.
Yeppers. I’ve got tape in numerous places around my apartment. I even have some tissue boxes placed just proper.
