Mildly Infuriating

It's annoying as fuck, but there is a solution: Masking Tape

It's semi-see-through. so you can still see the status, but it won't be nearly as bright. Add two layers if one isn't enough dimming.

I got really annoyed with all of the ones on my devices and finally find something that works, LED light blocking stickers and dimming stickers. The dimming ones are useful to reduce the brightness of you still need to see if something is on.

My biggest complaint about lights at night is my CPAP machine with its screen, indicator light, start stop button light and light on the control knob. The bloody thing is for helping me sleep and lights up the room. Currently I'm designing on a 3d printed cover for it ATM.

I miss having a LED on n'y phone.

sorry, it's the future, these are apparently mandatory now.

Oh my gosh, yes, this drives me absolutely insane. Appliances should either turn their LEDs off after a few seconds, or not use them at all.

To find a computer part that doesn't come with lights on it is getting harder. Even parts buried within the case have lights. How I want to destroy those LED lights on my motherboard.

Depending on the device I use electrical tape or the liquid electrical tape. It works quite well at blocking the light.

If you're ever buying your own LEDs, make sure they're 2700K or less, it makes a huge difference in the temperature of light. The annoying part is that manufacturers ship appliances with god awful lightbulbs which, thanks to unfortunate advances, mean they will never die. A blessing and a curse.

My home office is in my bedroom. I've covered what I can with electrical tape but the glow still comes through. Sometimes I just throw dirty t-shirts and socks over things

Absolutely boils my piss because it's so unnecessary

I stayed in a motel recently that had a kitchenette with a mini fridge in the same room as the bed. You can tell management spent extra for this fridge too, since it had a temperature readout and a see-through door. But by god, that bright blue LED temperature display lit up the entire room and kept me up all night. I tried to cover it with some paper, but that only made it spread further. A couple socks draped over the top eventually did the trick.

I got rid of my alarm clock because the led screen was too bright. My phone charger has a bright blue light on it so I have to cover that up to sleep. I almost want to set up my bedroom with no electronics at all but I don't think my wife would go for it

I keep a roll of black tape in my bedroom for this exact reason. I have a damned humidifier that has a light under the water tank so the whole thing glows. Who TF designs this crap?

I always cover or unplug my printer before going to bed because otherwise the little screen will start flashing every 15 minutes.

Thank you!! I thought I was the only one. All my new power strips I just bought have a full brightness blue or green standard LED. Like the ones that come in cheap headlamps. It creates a column of blue or green light on the ceiling. I taped over all of them. My new heatpump unit also has a bunch, but mercifully has an "off" button that will just display the Leds for a second when adjusting the temperature or fan, then turns them back off. It also remembers this setting between power cycles. Total breath of fresh air compared to my new (annoying) tea pot that has permanently on LEDs, or my air purifier which also does unless you want it in sleep mode which essentially is the same as turning off the machine.

The sad part is that a lot of my old devices didn't have LEDs, but broke over the years and aren't repairable. And most new ones have chips and LEDs now to be with the times. Makes them more expensive and generally less reliable.

I appreciate this sentiment, but I kinda dig the LEDs. We just ordered bookshelves that have them installed, and I'm kinda giddy about reading books while be illuminated from the home of the books, lol.

I'm an excessive kinda guy.

I feel you man. My mom lived in a house that was build in 2010 and had touch-futuristic-smart-glow-in-the-dark light switches.. They had a bright blue LED in the middle, it drove me crazy. The switches were also packed in groups of two or three.

There's a lot of value in a sleeping area that can get really really dark.

I'm ever so grateful for electrical tape.

Goes with nothing ever turning off any more. If it all shut off, no lights.

fun fact: human eyes can actually perceive single photons.

also fun fact: we can shoot single photons.

Blue LEDs can trigger migraines in us poor saps who are photosensitive, so them being all over the place has been a ton of fun, let me tell you.

I got reddish-brown tints for my glasses and it’s been a lifesaver.

I work from home in my room and I know the struggle. I have electrical tape over several useless LEDs on my office equipment.

LED and face mask manufacturers have conspired to improve sales of both appliance lighting, and sleepwear.

I haven't read someone answering why now is so common. I'm not a product designer or something similar, but our brain evolved to process the visual inputs over other senses. If a product have integrated lights, most of the customers will prefer them instead of products without lights.

So basically is just a sale point, and as many here already told, many of them are unnecessary.

Bright LEDs suck. I've used painters tape before to cover some of the LEDs I've got around the house, and it works pretty alright. It's thin enough to show the light but dim it pretty significantly.

Oh... I was too busy being pissed off at stupid-bright LEDs that I read a dozen comments and forgot to upvote everyone.. whooops.

this is a test

Back in 2011, I picked up and repaired a busted USB-SATA HDD adapter, and it had the most blinding bright white status light on it.

What did I do? I literally cut that end of the board off with a hacksaw (then carefully filed away stray copper to avoid any shorts). Then I installed a 12 volt receptacle and 16v filter capacitor in its place to be able to power up desktop drives if I want.

Screw them blinding lights though! 👍