Everything has LEDs now and they drive me nuts
Everything has LEDs now and they drive me nuts
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?
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It's just really cheap electricity wise and as a means to convey information that a device is actually functioning. I thought you were going to complain about them being use in PC modding, where it's actually somewhat excessive, but even then in modern PCs it at least serves the purpose to light up the inside and tell you the state of the PC, such as the amount of dust, loose pieces, or fans that may have stopped working.
Still quite a pain when you got a dozen little LED's all aiming for your eyes throughout the day