i have an arduino starter kit and the blue LEDs could light up the entire house

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 to agree with you. I have tape over numerous items in my bedroom that would otherwise cause too much light at night.

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.

Yah agree with your rant but black electric tape was my solution too.

I use black gaffer tape for those things

I like the customizable LEDs on my razer mouse mat, except when my PC (2021 15.6-inch razer laptop) decides that since I just went 6 hours without installing what are now almost daily win10 patches, it’s time to fuck up my drivers- and then it exits sleep mode despite the lid being closed and there being nothing wrong with my power settings, causing my fans to jet-engine, the logo led thing to come on and the mouse mat to shine brighter than a sun with its default color-cycle thing. And for bonus points, sometimes it even tries to address the problem by actually auto-updating at the time I told it to (1 AM or something), so I get startled by the “du dun, duh dun doooooo” which always seems louder at night.

And I dare not switch to linux, as razer laptops are not a common laptop choice and therefore it’s unclear how I’d be able to keep all its complicated and already-buggy drivers and proprietary software up to date so they don’t make it overheat within the first week, especially since the odds of me finding any help online for converting such an exotic rig to ubuntu are minimal to none.

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

For what it's worth, I have a fan that lets you turn off the LED lights, even from the remote control for the fan. /shrug

I have black bicycle tape for this exact reason.

I purchased non residue duct tape simply to combat this problem. Many of the electronics in my apartment have tape covering lights.

I'm pretty sure all this "blue light screws up your brain for sleep" is complete hornswaggle nonsense.

I CAN understand why bright light of any color temperature could muck up getting to sleep but I think that's about it.

On taping over bright LEDs that don't need to be there though, that I'm with you on.

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.)

If you're ever buying your own LEDs, make sure they're 2700K or less, it makes a huge difference in the temperature of light. The annoying part is that manufacturers ship appliances with god awful lightbulbs which, thanks to unfortunate advances, mean they will never die. A blessing and a curse.

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 agree it sucks.

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