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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] 47 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Yes but also I've just put electrical tape over many an item.

The RGB craze is the worst.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

Last pc i built i had 1 hard request, "I don't want a damn xmas tree in my pc." girl laughed and the only light is from the heat sync :(

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah it sucks that I sleep in the same room as my computer. It's damn near impossible to find a case without RGB.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

Should be possible to just not plug them in.

But I have no idea why they are there in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Amen. I do love LEDs since their dawn and have a big-ass collection. But on every single stupid computer thing? I don't wanna pay extra just because my mouse can have stupid rgb-lights. Or my damn RAM. It adds absolutely nothing, costs more and has another part that will go broke.

I hate the rgb-craze...

One my Xbox controller's light is so bright it could power our solar-panels. I had to put multiple Band-Aids on it 🫤