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?

  • kring@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    I have an old Samsung screen, which has a bright blue LED when it’s working. So far, so good. If you turn off your PC, the same blue LED starts to blink. Looks like you get raided by the police. How can anybody think it is a good idea to have a blinking LED for a device that isn’t used?

      • kring@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I could - but I’m lazy. I bought a master/slave power bar that removes power to the screen when the PC is shut down.

      • boonhet@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I think I had a similar one.

        You can turn it off, but then you have to turn it back on again when you turn on your PC. Would be nice if it just didn’t keep blinking in the standby mode, which is what I mostly leave my screens on when they’re not in use.

      • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Or tape over it instead. Even if it’s one of the ones with touch controls, tape should be thin enough that it wouldn’t really cause problems.

    • RubberDucky@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I have this exact same monitor (also Samsung) it is driving me nuts, I have VERY poor vision making the light at night shine 500x brighter, I’ve contemplated putting a sticker on it

    • sv1sjp@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I am just turning off the entire power strip because of these blue blinking LEDs…