Why does every small appliance or useful home electronics item have the BRIGHTEST LEDs in them?
I bought a new fan for our bedroom Sunday. It has 4 speed settings, and LEDs to display which setting you’re on.
Just like every other electrical device in our bedroom, I had to cover the LEDs with electrical tape because they are TOO DAMM BRIGHT. That one light was more than bright enough for me to see in the room with all the lights off.
I can’t sleep well if there’s a lot of light like that, especially blue light, and it’s like every fucking electronics manufacturer used the same extra bright blue LEDs.
All of our power strips have them. Same brightness.
The fans have them.
Don’t even get me started on digital clocks and the plague of bright LEDs that they bring about
Many charging plugs have them built into the plug itself.
Even some fucking light switches have them now!
I have about 6 different things in our bedroom that have electrical tape over their completely unnecessary LEDs.
Why has this become such a common thing? Is this really something most people want? To have a room that is never actually dark even with the lights turned off?
I just sleep with a mask, but I hear you man, that trend is super-irritating. I think it comes from people who cant tell that something is powered on without seeing an led indicator
You mean can’t tell something is powered on without a freaking bat-signal? That’s how it feels at night.
If someone can’t tell that a FAN is plugged in without TWO LEDs (one on the fan itself, another in the plug) then I’m sorry they shouldn’t own the fan, they may actually hurt themselves with it.
It’s a fan. When you plug it in it spins. If it isn’t spinning, you either didn’t plug it in, or didn’t hit the power button on the fan.
For a second I thought you said “I think it comes from people who CAN tell that something is powered on without seeing an LED indicator.” I thought you were implying you believe those crazy people who can “feel” low-power home wifi etc. from across the house or whatever. I was going to say that double-blind studies fully indicate that these people are batshit. But that isn’t what you were saying, so I won’t.