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Would you return something because the power indicator LED is too bright? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The problem with that is the LED also functions as the power button.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Carefully trimmed sticker?

EDIT: Ah, I see you've handled it. Carry on, then.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

i had a monitor like that once. big bright af blue power light baked into the power button, bottom center of the bezel. blue led was the 'new' thing back then. the barton-era matching pc (which i didn't have) had a larger matching button on its front. if you know your '00s pavilions, you know the ones.

it was horrible. that monitor lived its entire life with a black piece of paper taped over the whole switch and light. i was not saddened when it finally gave up and failed to turn on. i was more annoyed that it took 15 years for it to fail.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Press on the tape?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The problem is it's a weird recessed button.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

Nail polish might work.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Loose piece of tape .... then press on the weird recessed piece of tape

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Tape a dry bean into the recess.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

This is a hilarious solution

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

LMAO, maybe next time

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

I would find this very annoying.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Mask off the dock one spray of spray paint in just the LED resses