cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/19798927

Sure, the whole world is on fire right now, but there are also little things to be upset about. ☝😉

    • brianorca@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      It also falls off too easily. My favorite for this use case is black Gorilla tape. Like duct tape but thicker.

      • Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        To be fair to the tv, it’s not letting you know it’s off, it’s letting you know it’s still on but in sleep mode. TV’s are just giant tablets now. If it was off, you’d have to wait for it to boot into its operating system the next time you wanted to watch TV.

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          I have dumb TV’s still with the same problem. It’s to communicate that it’s plugged in and receiving power. If the TV isn’t working properly, that’s easy to verify rather than having to worry about the surge protector, outlet, circuit breaker, etc.

          The fact that TV’s are “smart” is a whole other issue I could get curmudgeonly about.

    • Vlyn@lemmy.zip
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      9 months ago

      At least with my LG TV you can switch that off. It’s in general settings “Standby light” :)

    • Troy@lemmy.ca
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      9 months ago

      It’s how you know that it’s waiting for your remote controller signals, right? Otherwise how would you know that the TV is waiting. Always waiting. So lonely. Please send it signals!

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    9 months ago

    Blue is meant to be calming and nice. The brightness probably needs lowered on these chargers.

  • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I have a microphone that when plugged into my computer, even if the computer is sleeping, shines a bright blue light that cannot be covered up without removing the sticker covering the screws holding the mesh in, so I just put a pair of socks on top of it as a ‘temporary’ solution

    • weker01@sh.itjust.works
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      9 months ago

      Black electrical tape works really well to temporarily cover LEDs.

      Edit: I feel unoriginal… The very next comment I read also suggested black electrical tape. That’s why I should just lurk like always :/

      Edit2: it feels like every other comment suggests electrical tape. At least I am not the only unoriginal lemming.

  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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    9 months ago

    I often put a piece of duct tape on power indicator LEDs, some of them are incredibly bright to the point that it’s hard to read the display. The LED is generally still visible under the tape …

    • Wolf314159@startrek.website
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      9 months ago

      Try gaffer tape instead. It blocks all the light. It doesn’t reflect much light at all. It generally sticks to anything. You can get it in a variety of colors. It doesn’t leave as much sticky residue when removed or repositioned. I’ve not encountered many surfaces (expect painted surfaces) that it actually damages when carefully removed. I use black gaffer tape on basically all my electronic stuff: one strip to cover the whole light, two strips a razor’s edge width apart so that I can still see the indicator if I try but otherwise 99.9% of the light is blocked, or a strip with a folded over tab at one end for the displays I want to block %100 of the light %90 of the time.

      Duct tape, duck tape, electrical tape, masking tape all really suck unless you love that sticky gunky residue they inevitably leave on everything. Gaffer tape isn’t perfect, but it’s much better for this kind of semi-temporary light blocking without too much surface damage kind of job.

  • Wrench@lemmy.world
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    I have black electrical tape over most led indicators. It’s stupid because now I can’t tell the battery charge on a lot of devices, but I hate the involuntary nightlights everywhere.

    • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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      9 months ago

      You can get tape that’s not clear nor is it completely opaque.

      You can find dark colored “clear” style tape.

      Alternatively, take a sharpie to some Scotch tape. Color to preference.

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      9 months ago

      I use white electrical tape. It drastically reduces the light brightness but allows enough though to know the light is on.

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    9 months ago

    There was a time when blue LEDs were the white whale of electronics, always out of reach and everyone wanted to figure out how to make them work. When someone finally did it, it was considered a massive breakthrough, and rightly so. Now they have somehow become the default cheapo LED, moreso than red or green. Could it be an industry-wide ‘fuck you’ to physics? “You tried to keep us from making blue LEDs, hah! Now look at us!!!”

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      You even see them in Christmas lights. They’re so retina piercingly stark, like not a chill light at all (though obv on the “cool” end of the spectrum). I’m out here walking my dog looking at the nice twinkly warm lights - no one wants to see your damned pinprick holes into the Tron dimension

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      At one point, blue LEDs were super expensive because of their difficult production.
      So any product that has a blue LED was considered premium. I guess they were also considered futuristic and high-tech.
      Somehow, this is still in the mind of some manufacturers.
      All I want is a barely-visible-in-soft-daylight diffused/frosted red or amber LED.
      But no, it’s always some 5w lensed blue LED at somehow produces a tighter beam of horrendous blue light that’s brighter than most flashlights.

      • justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Reminds me on a German proverb “to add your mustard to it”, which apparently came from a time at which mustard was rare and exquisite. So they added it to any kind of food just to “up it’s prestige”.

    • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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      Yeah, the history of the blue LED is actually really interesting. It basically exists because one Japanese dude refused to take no for an answer, and continued working on developing them even after his company stopped funding his LED project.

    • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.world
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      And when blue LEDs just started being available prop designers for scifi loved them because LEDs work much better on screen than incandescent bulbs, and as blue lights were something people didn’t have yet in their household objects they looked new and interesting. Look at the Doctor Who and Torchwood props from the mid 2000s, everything from the iconic Sonic Screwdriver to alien zappers and bleepers and greebles of all kinds were full of tiny blue lights because it screamed “scifi” to the viewer.

      Very quickly, though, blue LEDs got cheap enough for everyday junk and manufacturers immediately shoved them into every consumer product because they were new and interesting and, thanks in part to the scifi trend, made stuff look like scifi future tech you could have in real life.

      Now, a couple decades on, we’re still kind of stuck there.

  • Chronographs@lemmy.zip
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    I have my computer full of led’s and my monitors right next to my bed do you really all need perfect darkness to sleep?

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      9 months ago

      Every study ever done shows the mental and physical health benefits of dark for sleeping. Worth looking into.

  • _____@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Time to get roasted again but I dislike LEDs and I always tape black electrical tape on them.

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      We shouldn’t have to. Products should be made sensibly and of quality. They’ll skimp and save fractions of a penny on every single facet of a product’s design, so what possesses them to waste all this money on blinding lights that nobody asked for?

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    9 months ago

    I don’t charge things at night since I don’t like to be asleep when a battery is charging. This conveniently makes it so I don’t get to see a charging light at night. Everything else is on a power strip with a switch. My bedside light and alarm clock are the only things plugged a power strip without a switch.

  • *Tagger*@lemmy.world
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    to be fair, on my WiFi router, a recent (cheap) TV my mother bought and my Xbox the LEDs are able to be disabled in software, so some manufacturers are catching on.

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    I had a mine pickup that had a blue LED for the indicator that the buggy whip was on. That thing was a fucking laser at night, shining right into my eyeball. I eventually got fed up and made a duct tape flap to put right above it so I could still tell it was on (my feet would be blue) but my retinas would still be intact

    • Troy@lemmy.ca
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      Yeah, it’s way worse in vehicles haha. I have an aftermarket entertainment system in my 2006 Matrix – it has three modes: Daytime colours (bright), nighttime colours (dark blue but still bright), and screen off. Highway driving at night means the only real option is screen off. I otherwise really like the system, but it seems like a huge oversight. It seems that none of the developers of these things ever actually test them in nighttime driving/working conditions.

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        I don’t miss much about the 2013 Prius but it had what was basically a blackout mode, akin to the old Saabs, where almost everything inside the car that was illuminated would turn off.

        Great for cruise control on the highway at night.

      • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net
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        A tall flag that attaches to your pickup. It has a light on the end.

        It prevents this from happening:

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            Yeah it’s not intuitively named. I suspect the term came from Australian miners that made their way to north america.

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    Bluetac - no light gets through and it’s usually pretty easy to remove when necessary.