I have an old Samsung screen, which has a bright blue LED when it's working. So far, so good. If you turn off your PC, the same blue LED starts to blink. Looks like you get raided by the police. How can anybody think it is a good idea to have a blinking LED for a device that isn't used?

Those bright LED interfaces are called "Abusive Appliance Interfaces" by Nathan over on the Toasty Tech website. It seems like there's more people that are being annoyed by the bright lights than I thought.

Don't even get me started on VEHICLE HEADLIGHTS ! >:(

hashtag-not-an-engineer-but The vast majority of products you can just pull the LED. Don't resolder, just pull it out. If it goes badly, you can either just put it back, or replace with a "non-LE-"diode of the same spec.

You can't tell anyone this, but I have a friend who is deep inside the insurance industry. Some of the big guys have invested heavy into LEDs. So to maximize the LED investments, they give manufacturers safety discounts for every LED they can attach to their shit. Big guys make some extra zeros for their accounts, and sharpie and 3M get some splash, too.

it gives you a bit more appreciation devs who add in functionality to turn the LED off. My fan has that which is really nice, and my portable AC. Even my access points you can change them.

But still so many products with LED that cannot be changed or disabled so I have to use a piece of electrical tape.

why are they blue!!!

Literally chose not to buy a powerbank because the power button flashed blue as bright as possible. my PC has blue LED's on the front for status indicators, and i put some black nail polish over them to block out about 80% of the light.

Even the small white leds on my pc are annoying, I've recently used a black sharpie to dim them, it did wonders.

At least you don't live in Japan where everything sings to you

I have a pair of underpants draped over my internet router.😂😂😂 Really defuses the 🔆 🔆 brightness

Search for “blackout tape” or “dimming tape” and you’ll find dark sticky tape in different degrees of transparency that you can use to dull or block these annoying kinds of lights. I learned about it through my wife, whose sleep is easily disturbed.

You shouldn’t have to buy this and make the effort, but I’m trying to make a practical suggestion.

I purchased a black paint marker. When I get new electronics, I turn off the lights at night and all eye-offenders get the hose.

I have a bottle of black nail polish. Every LED in my bedroom (except the smoke detector) is blacked out.

100% agree. I have tape over the lights on my PS5 to keep my room dark at night. Plus I turn all my monitors off...and sometimes put something over my router to cover up all those blinking lights...and the Oculus Quest charging light....

Man, that reminds me of an art installation that I saw many years ago, where an artist set up a bunch of home electronics in a completely dark room so that their LED lights looked like star constellations.

It was kinda beautiful and yet a reminder about all the "light pollution" we get from these devices, basically what you are talking about.

I tried to look up the name of the artist and that art installation, but couldn't find it.

Oh my gosh, yes, this drives me absolutely insane. Appliances should either turn their LEDs off after a few seconds, or not use them at all.

sorry, it's the future, these are apparently mandatory now.

I miss having a LED on n'y phone.

I bought an LG TV for my bedroom. Its WHITE LED is FUCKING BLINKING WHEN OFF. I taped it with black tape, but then it's so bright that's leaking from the button spacing. I had to buy a smart relay like a shelly pm and write a simple program like "after 11pm if power usage is under 2W, cut the power to the appliance"

I got really annoyed with all of the ones on my devices and finally find something that works, LED light blocking stickers and dimming stickers. The dimming ones are useful to reduce the brightness of you still need to see if something is on.

My biggest complaint about lights at night is my CPAP machine with its screen, indicator light, start stop button light and light on the control knob. The bloody thing is for helping me sleep and lights up the room. Currently I'm designing on a 3d printed cover for it ATM.

I appreciate this sentiment, but I kinda dig the LEDs. We just ordered bookshelves that have them installed, and I'm kinda giddy about reading books while be illuminated from the home of the books, lol.

I'm an excessive kinda guy.

fun fact: human eyes can actually perceive single photons.

also fun fact: we can shoot single photons.

My home office is in my bedroom. I've covered what I can with electrical tape but the glow still comes through. Sometimes I just throw dirty t-shirts and socks over things

Absolutely boils my piss because it's so unnecessary

Depending on the device I use electrical tape or the liquid electrical tape. It works quite well at blocking the light.