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?
I bought a snowball microphone. It has the brightest goddamned red led on the front. It juts out like some rectangular boil and it’s annoying as it is ugly.
So I had to cut off some black electric tape to cover it. The light is ALWAYS on. Maybe it’s to let you know it could be recording, but since it’s always on no matter what I’m doing, being always off is the same thing.
Get a pop filter and it will cover the LED quite well. Also keeps the mic from being an eyesore. I got one for $10 off ebay. Also stops those annoying, blown out “Pff” sounds if you are directly facing the mic.
The mic doesn’t look too bad. Pardon the mess behind it, just built a new desk and haven’t arranged the wires or taken down the junk behind it.
Not bad :D
Need to probably go back to the original stand. Previously the monitor was on a standing desk stand and I needed to print a stand so they mic was actually under it