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Sure, the whole world is on fire right now, but there are also little things to be upset about. ☝😉
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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.
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.
I have a microphone that when plugged into my computer, even if the computer is sleeping, shines a bright blue light that cannot be covered up without removing the sticker covering the screws holding the mesh in, so I just put a pair of socks on top of it as a ‘temporary’ solution
drop of black nail polish?
Judging by all the comments, I’m definitely not the only one with this pet peeve. 😅
Black electrical tape works really well to temporarily cover LEDs.
Edit: I feel unoriginal… The very next comment I read also suggested black electrical tape. That’s why I should just lurk like always :/
Edit2: it feels like every other comment suggests electrical tape. At least I am not the only unoriginal lemming.
I should specify - I would need to cover the whole microphone to block the LED as the LED is inside (picture)
I once slept in a hotel room where the TV had a blue LED standby light. I had to go and cover it up, it was way too bright.
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.
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.
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?
You don’t want your room to look like it has a nice cozy fireplace?
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.
I use white electrical tape. It drastically reduces the light brightness but allows enough though to know the light is on.
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.
Read “fornicates” like a Greek hero
You’re the first to even mention it. ☺️
My TV has a red LED that will blind you when the TV IS TURNED OFF
But how would you ever know the TV was turned off if it didn’t have a light to tell you?
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.
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. 😑
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” :)
Time to get roasted again but I dislike LEDs and I always tape black electrical tape on them.
This, but I use washi tape because it is less gunky.
I have an air purifier that is stupid bright, I tried painters tape but ended up using the aluminum foil tape to block the lights
I like my air purifier because there is a button on it specifically for dimming AND turning off the damn lights.
I mean it makes sense because it needs to be bright in daylight.
Two fer one. You also blocked its cloud features!
Why the fuck does my air purifier need to be cloud connected?
It wants to show you a graph of your air quality.
It wants to sell my air quality data. How often I fart, what the dispersion rate is, geolocation correlations for wildfire air quality monitoring, how often I replace filters.
Invaluable information for the coming robot revolution no doubt.
Also just wants to leak your pii with the next inevitable breach.
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 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.
Bluetac - no light gets through and it’s usually pretty easy to remove when necessary.
Dry erase. Just dab it to adjust darkness levels.
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