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?
Sadly appliances with useful dimming options are getting very rare.
In the same boat as OP and other commenters: electrical tape and sharpies FTW
I had to put electrical tape on my monitors- when you’re using multiple monitors in your setup, it’s super inconvenient to have to switch each one on and off each morning/evening so it’s better to just let them sleep, but when you do that they’re just too dang bright.
I got a master/slave powe bar to disconnect the screenes from power when I shut down the PC.
that’s the smart thing to do. I just put electrical tape on it lol