I have put black tape on my gamepad, on the led of pc cases, montor power button led, removed led from pc case fans, black skin on inside of transparent case panel. MOST annoying is some of them can't be turned off so you have to strip them out.
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023
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It's tangential, but why Nintendo made the Switch without a quick and easy to access brightness setting is beyond me. Is it really so impossible for one of the biggest game console companies in the world to add a drag-from-edge brightness setting into their OS?
I love the games and really like a lot about the console but their software has almost always felt like it was at least a decade behind the rest of the world.
Okay, sorry. Done ranting.
I'm a bit late and maybe someone already mentioned it, but go onto amazon and order the cheapest darkest car window tinting film. I have it on all of my leds and it makes it a lot more bearable.
I don’t know where you live but I’m very afraid that start happening here in Brazil too. It’s showing a lot of this already and it’s very annoying. Thanks for the tip about the tape, I don’t know that and will look for it.
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I am so happy with my new keyboard in every way apart from the fact that the num pad light etc. is blue and SO BRIGHT to the point where it is almost blinding to look at directly from above, and it lights up my ceiling blue at night, like pointing a torch. I guess it's a sign of quality or whatever but I think it is a tad unnecessary to be that bright. I may end up covering it with a few layers of transparent/tinted tape.
A soldiering iron comes in handy.
I just remove annoying leds altogether.
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Remember when orange was a novelty led color? I can hear the floppy drive buzzing when I see one of the old chunky LEDs in my junk box
Wow I had no idea this bothered so many people! I’ve had to learn to love with it myself since I had kids, damn night lights everywhere and white noise machines and all that crap. So it doesn’t bother me as much anymore but my god I can’t wait until they’re grown enough to cut all that crap out.
I do open those pesky devices and cut the LEDs out
I had to pop open my daughter's wipe warmer to yank out a bunch of useless LEDs that were keeping her up. Why can't we just have a damned off switch?
agreed. Its really annoying. I actually bought the humidifier I did because they advertised it as having a setting to turn off the power LED.
I remember the Nintendo Wii was terrible about this. Like if they pushed an update, the disk drive would just start glowing the brightest blue ever until you did something about it
Bright LED's are unnecessary. Hell, most LED's are unnecessary.
I have to agree with you. I have tape over numerous items in my bedroom that would otherwise cause too much light at night.
I have black bicycle tape for this exact reason.
Everything except phones, which actually could do with having them.
(This isn't a completely new thing, in the 1980s I had an A-Team watch that had led lights on it.)
I started just taping over the lights of anything in my bedroom. I figure if it also makes a goofy noise when it turns on, thats how I know its frickin' on.