I got a HDD dock from startech.com. It works great and does everything I need. The problem is it has the brightest goddamn blue LED I have ever seen. It is so unnecessarily bright. My eyes hurt looking in the same direction as it. What the fuck should I do? Return it? De solder the stupid ass LED? It works great aside from this one issue.
Edit: I opened the thing and drew with sharpie on the LED. It’s bearable to look at now.
This is where black electric tape can be your best friend.
I bought a keyboard from ThinkGeek that had an LED that would hit me right in the eye. A little piece of tape and that keyboard served me well for years.
Likely not, it seems wasteful if the product is otherwise good in all other important regards. I’d just cover up the LED with tape or paint.
Blue LEDs are the worst offenders. No need to return it as long as you keep a bit of black tape ready. If you still need it as an indicator, you can use layers of yellowish tape. The one used while painting your walls works great. Masking tape it’s called in English.
I use duct tape to cover bright lights
Taped over with electrical tape. Couldnt care less.
No, one of my mesh WiFi routers is in my room and too bright at night, I just put tape on it. Problem solved.
Every modern router that I’ve worked with has an option to turn the lights off at night. Does the control panel of your router have that too?
It technically has got that setting, but sometimes I’ll do a weird shift or do something that requires me to sleep when it would otherwise be on. I don’t want it permanently off because if I pick it up and look under I can still see the light if I need to and that’s quicker than changing settings in the app.
The tape works and you can’t see it, so I have no need to do it in software.
I have marker pens and led dims so…no
Duck tape it. Because every single product have decided that blinding blue leds is the way to go.
I miss my dim red leds.
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I usually use a little tiny piece of electrical tape, which should work unless the power button is absolutely minuscule. Desoldering it also works, but is more permanent.
You can get LED film off Amazon for like, $7. It blocks those annoying LEDs on tech devices, monitors, wall outlets, kitchen appliances, and my nemesis, smoke detectors with stupidly bright LEDs.
Best $7 you’ll spend this year.
Duct tape or electrical tape would fix this in a jiffy.
I either tape the things with Isolation in dark to see nothing or the Painters-Tape which is yellow and partly lets light through.
But colored isolation band lets the light through a bit too.
lol, I know this pain. about 20 yrs ago i bought a shiny new pc case and expected the red leds, it had 2 super bright blue leds that were either solid on(power) or flashing(drive activity), this pc was next to my bed pointing across my bed. the entire room was lit by these and hard blue circles were projected on the wall. ended up taping a cardboard strip over them.
My monitor had a bright blue power LED smack in the middle of the lower bezel. I took it apart on day one and brutally ripped out the LED, only then did I ever connect it to my computer.
