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What is the smallest hill you would die on? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[โ€“] 68 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Anyone who puts always-on blue LEDs in electronics deserve the oubliette. People who put such LEDs in electronics meant for the bedroom deserve an oubliette that'a slowly filling with water.

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  • [โ€“] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Allow me to try and persuade you. The problem is bright blue LEDs. It's still stupid that they make them so bright, but the problem isn't the color. A hypothetical bright red, green, or amber LED would also be a problem.

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  • [โ€“] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Shorter wavelengths hit different though. That's why we have blue light filtering glasses, Redshift, etc.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    a non-diffused, bright, monocromatic red led would still be painful to look at in the dark, it's just that blue LEDs tend to be brighter + our eyes are more sensitive to blueish green light at night + the damn companies don't bother putting a diffuser in front of the diode.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That sucks, but you can put some isolation tape on LEDs.

    But I wish something horrible to those who thought it's a great idea to make every goddamn electronic device make beeping noises.

    My water boiler, fan, washing machine. In my childhood I don't remember everything beeping at every interaction. It makes me furious and you often cannot fully disable it.

    Once I tried to solder the beeper out but my soldering iron was probably not suitable so I failed :(

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 1 year ago

    You can muffle the beeper pretty effectively with some tape, the old air fryer we had terrified one of the dogs because of the incessant beeping. My coffee scale by default beeps whenever you touch it, thankfully that's 100% mutable.

    I also hate this.

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