4d ago

Would you return something because the power indicator LED is too bright?

I got a HDD dock from startech.com. It works great and does everything I need. The problem is it has the brightest goddamn blue LED I have ever seen. It is so unnecessarily bright. My eyes hurt looking in the same direction as it. What the fuck should I do? Return it? De solder the stupid ass LED? It works great aside from this one issue.

Edit: I opened the thing and drew with sharpie on the LED. It's bearable to look at now.

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No, one of my mesh WiFi routers is in my room and too bright at night, I just put tape on it. Problem solved.
- Every modern router that I've worked with has an option to turn the lights off at night. Does the control panel of your router have that too?
  
  It technically has got that setting, but sometimes I'll do a weird shift or do something that requires me to sleep when it would otherwise be on. I don't want it permanently off because if I pick it up and look under I can still see the light if I need to and that's quicker than changing settings in the app.
  The tape works and you can't see it, so I have no need to do it in software.

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