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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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[–] Hazdaz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Buy a paint pen to darken how bright they are or just use a tiny piece of electrical tape. I too hate that every goddamn thing these days has a light, but the only indication if a feature on a device is on or off is by looking at the lights, so they are unfortunately an important thing.

[–] Landrin201@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's not true though, if your oscillating fan is not plugged in then it won't spin. There's a clear difference between the on/off state.

I can't think of any device in my house that has an LED in it that really needs one to indicate on/off state. The power strips all have an on/off switch on them that clearly incicates whether you have it turned on. The devices with LEDs in the plugs will indicate whether they are on or off based on whether they work when plugged in, having an LED in the plug is just useless.

[–] capt_wolf@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Didn't see if anyone else recommend it, but there's dimming tape you can get in sheets or rolls. I can't stand my room being lit up by every damn device needing to show that it's on! I put it on nearly every LED in my bedroom, double layer for those damn blue LEDS that are always ultra bright. For things I can't fit it on, there's always black sharpie or like OP said, paint pens.

[–] BURN@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Just devils advocate, but I can think of a bunch. Just on my desk alone

  • Wireless Mouse

  • Wireless Keyboard

  • Headset/Microphone

  • MagSafe Phone Charger

Not everything needs it, but there are uses