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.
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023
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its probably there because those leds are dirt cheap and the companies just want as much as possible to advertise about it
I have put black tape on my gamepad, on the led of pc cases, montor power button led, removed led from pc case fans, black skin on inside of transparent case panel. MOST annoying is some of them can't be turned off so you have to strip them out.
It's tangential, but why Nintendo made the Switch without a quick and easy to access brightness setting is beyond me. Is it really so impossible for one of the biggest game console companies in the world to add a drag-from-edge brightness setting into their OS?
I love the games and really like a lot about the console but their software has almost always felt like it was at least a decade behind the rest of the world.
Okay, sorry. Done ranting.
Agreed. Everything I've bought in the last few years has a layer of electrical tape covering the lights.
Bright LED's are unnecessary. Hell, most LED's are unnecessary.
I also use sticky notes like @[email protected]. I've tried electrical tape but I don't like how it goes gunky after a while.
I have a lutron maestro light switch that has LED lights, but I like it. I can see it when I walk to the bathroom at night or when I walk into the apartment and it's dark. I also like the LEDs in my keyboard. But that's it. I have my monitor lights covered, and the USB charger, router, and power bar lights might end up with similar treatments soon.
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Everything except phones, which actually could do with having them.
(This isn't a completely new thing, in the 1980s I had an A-Team watch that had led lights on it.)
agreed. Its really annoying. I actually bought the humidifier I did because they advertised it as having a setting to turn off the power LED.
I remember the Nintendo Wii was terrible about this. Like if they pushed an update, the disk drive would just start glowing the brightest blue ever until you did something about it
I do open those pesky devices and cut the LEDs out
Wow I had no idea this bothered so many people! I’ve had to learn to love with it myself since I had kids, damn night lights everywhere and white noise machines and all that crap. So it doesn’t bother me as much anymore but my god I can’t wait until they’re grown enough to cut all that crap out.
I use Black Masking tape to cover them a bunch. It cuts the blinding glare, but you can still see them, as they're often integral configuration.
I have to agree with you. I have tape over numerous items in my bedroom that would otherwise cause too much light at night.
i have an arduino starter kit and the blue LEDs could light up the entire house
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Guess I have the unpopular opinion here but I like leds 🤷♂️
I started just taping over the lights of anything in my bedroom. I figure if it also makes a goofy noise when it turns on, thats how I know its frickin' on.
I have black bicycle tape for this exact reason.
I had to pop open my daughter's wipe warmer to yank out a bunch of useless LEDs that were keeping her up. Why can't we just have a damned off switch?