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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I’ve not returned an item over it, but I’ve often wondered if there was a market for a company which de-LEDs items.
You could dab it with a little paint or glue or something.
I suggest getting something like LightDims: https://www.lightdims.com/index.php
I have marker pens and led dims so…no
Tape
The problem with that is the LED also functions as the power button.
i had a monitor like that once. big bright af blue power light baked into the power button, bottom center of the bezel. blue led was the ‘new’ thing back then. the barton-era matching pc (which i didn’t have) had a larger matching button on its front. if you know your '00s pavilions, you know the ones.
it was horrible. that monitor lived its entire life with a black piece of paper taped over the whole switch and light. i was not saddened when it finally gave up and failed to turn on. i was more annoyed that it took 15 years for it to fail.
Press on the tape?
The problem is it’s a weird recessed button.
Nail polish might work.
Mask off the dock one spray of spray paint in just the LED resses
Loose piece of tape … then press on the weird recessed piece of tape
Tape a dry bean into the recess.
This is a hilarious solution
LMAO, maybe next time
I would find this very annoying.
Carefully trimmed sticker?
EDIT: Ah, I see you’ve handled it. Carry on, then.
I am also a hater of unnecessarily bright lights. In your shoes, presuming I’m happy with the product otherwise, I would paint over it with a bit of nail polish.
You can get polish in any color you want these days, and it’s very cheap. It dries fast and it comes with a very small brush. You can apply one coat, see if the led still shines through too much, apply another coat 15mins later once the first layer is dry. Repeat.
I might just open the thing and paint over the actual LED.
That’s a good idea if it’s an option
I opened it up and coated it with a sharpie. It’s good enough.
I’ve use a black sharpie to “tint” LEDs before. Your mileage may vary though, depending on the kind and shape of LED.
I’ve had good success with small pieces of electrical tape cut so that a very small part of the LED is still exposed.
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Taped over with electrical tape. Couldnt care less.
Duck tape it. Because every single product have decided that blinding blue leds is the way to go.
I miss my dim red leds.
Translucent cellotape over the led? Or small translucent plastic piece taped over it?
Not sure if it would affect air circulation tho
Nail polish. Couple layers of black and you can tune in how dark you want it
