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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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[-] RedSeries@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Bright LEDs suck. I've used painters tape before to cover some of the LEDs I've got around the house, and it works pretty alright. It's thin enough to show the light but dim it pretty significantly.

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[-] Madison_rogue@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

LED and face mask manufacturers have conspired to improve sales of both appliance lighting, and sleepwear.

[-] PlushySD@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Off-topic but the other day someone just complained that he's missing LEDs on his mobile phone LoL

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[-] SubjectOven@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Gaffers Tape may be the best thing ever invented. Next to zip ties and carbonara. I put some on all the little shitty LEDs in my room. It's pitch black in here right now.

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[-] MeshPotato@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That shit sucks. When blue LEDs became a thing all sorts of electronics adopted them and they were effin everywehre.

This makes you appreciate professional equipment which is less likely to have those ridiculously bright ones. Lenovo usually have pretty discrete orange LEDs on their professional equipment. The large professional Dell monitor I use at work, while fitted with a white LED, has a very dim one.

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[-] thimantha@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

My fan automatically turns off its LEDs after about 10 seconds. Good design FTW.

[-] Hypersapien@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I buy these really cool magnetic charging cables. You put an adapter in the charging phone port and the cable just attaches itself.

The only problem is that they have these bright blue LEDs around the end. And on top of that, the LEDs are coated with silicone so you can't even take a sharpie to them.

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[-] PrawnStockton@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I got a pack of static cling ND gels and I cut them down and stack them on displays or small LED's that are too bright. They've been really helpful for things that you don't want to completely block with electrical tape, like an alarm clock.

[-] beibiddybibo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I finally gave up and just started sleeping with a mask over my eyes. I can't stand to have any light at all, either.

[-] beardsley@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I hate these, too. I decided to put a compact computer in our bedroom (already a bad plan, I know) to quickly check the security camera at night (I rolled my own, no phone app). I plugged in a mouse I had laying around. I discovered the first night when this particular mouse does not have its custom drivers installed (gimme a break, this is Raspbian not Windows!), it freaking blinks, and in the dead of night it's as bright as a flashlight. Blink. Blink. All night long. I never noticed before because, wackily enough, I rarely compute in complete darkness.

I also have a USB desk fan I thought I might run at night and yes, it has blinky lights when charging. F that, I bought an old Caframo Dragonfly instead... best compact fan ever made, first produced in the 1950s.

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[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A soldiering iron comes in handy.

I just remove annoying leds altogether.

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[-] beanz00_@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

its probably there because those leds are dirt cheap and the companies just want as much as possible to advertise about it

[-] mvirts@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Remember when orange was a novelty led color? I can hear the floppy drive buzzing when I see one of the old chunky LEDs in my junk box

[-] peto@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Man I feel you. Sometimes I tape over things even in rooms in only in when there are lights on because it comes with an indicator brighter than a thousand suns.

I miss those old low grade red ones. It also just looks better on black cases.

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[-] bsides@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I don’t know where you live but I’m very afraid that start happening here in Brazil too. It’s showing a lot of this already and it’s very annoying. Thanks for the tip about the tape, I don’t know that and will look for it.

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