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Re: Fixing annoying blue standby lights

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Post by woutersf »

Only mildly related but just as annoying; old cars would have a dimmer button to reduce the backlight in the dashboard.

With all the screens in midern cars, even the minimum brightness is too bright for me driving in the night.it wont let your eyes adapt to the dark.

My last Hyundai had a moon button to turn off screen but that was an exception ithink.

I have driven hours with a cloth over the screen of my skoda octavia in the night.

Please let me turn off the screen for dark night driving, thank you.

Re: Fixing annoying blue standby lights

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Post by worthless-trash »

TylerE wrote: post #140
qwertox wrote: post #100

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I hate electrical tape. It becomes sticky after some time, when it starts to smear because it got moved or stopped sticking to the surface. I bought a set of nail polish and use the black one to paint over the LEDs, it even allows you to control how much you want to cover it, in case you still want to have a bit of light to see if it's on or off. Other colors can be used to mark pins on breakout boards or cables. It'…

The really nice thing about electrical tape is that has an extremely high ignition tempature, and strong voltage resistance, so can throw it on stuff that gets hot (in either sense) and not worry about it. I use it to block off the annoying LED "backlighting" on my PS5... that gets warm enough that I'd be nervous about some tapes. Also handy for actual electrical stuff, like that one speaker wire that loves to comeou…

I've had some success with kapton tape, it drops the 'bright blue' down to a dull orange. Not perfect but its adhesive and knocks the brightness of the led down.

Re: Fixing annoying blue standby lights

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Post by worthless-trash »

dqv wrote: post #138
xapata wrote: post #125

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> some kind of signal Low sales is a signal. Also, they can hire a UX researcher.

I realize I wasn't clear about that - these notebooks are well-liked and have tons of positive reviews. There is no low sales signal, because people who don't care about the labels still buy the notebooks. It's that they're missing more sales from the people who don't buy them because of the ugly labels on the front. That would be the same with TVs, the only way a TV maker would really know is if they sold a "bedroom…

With a category rank by 'least bad'.

Re: Fixing annoying blue standby lights

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Post by dylan604 »

xvector wrote: post #169
midasuni wrote: post #156

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First thing I do is unplug the tv. Been woken too many times by TVs turning themselves on during the night.

I just travel with a mulberry silk eye mask. Seems to do the trick.

Since you went into such specifics (could have just sad eye mask/sleeping mask), why the specific mention of mulberry silk?

Re: Fixing annoying blue standby lights

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Post by callalex »

AnotherGoodName wrote: post #152

The early Intel based Macbooks lit up the whole room with an extremely bright standby led. It's one of those cases where a dictator style CEO is needed. The dictator experienced this and issued a reasonable directive to never allow standby leds on any of the company products ever again. If it's on standby it's dark. And that rule has now stuck. A good example in how different management styles can lead to products wi…

I know this advice is like 10 years too late, but if you leave the lid open on a MacBook in a dark room it will be able to use the light sensor that controls the screen/keyboard brightness to also dim the power indicator light.

Re: Fixing annoying blue standby lights

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Post by saberworks »

NegativeLatency wrote: post #172
saberworks wrote: post #124

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AppleTV 4k has super bright white led on the front (outwards to user) while the device is on. So annoying!

Don’t want to dismiss your complaint, but I find mine generally is not even that noticeable considering the main function of the Apple TV is playing media on my tv that lights up the whole room. What annoys you about it?

It's a white light sitting below my tv constantly shining a light at my face. What is the point of it? I already know the thing is powered on because I powered it on and it's playing a movie or whatever. Facing it backwards helps but then all the wires are exposed and look ugly.

Anyway, it wasn't really a strong complaint, but parent poster said Apple generally doesn't do it, but I have it on at least two generations of apple tv.

Re: Fixing annoying blue standby lights

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Post by knodi123 »

dylan604 wrote: post #184
xvector wrote: post #169

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I just travel with a mulberry silk eye mask. Seems to do the trick.

Since you went into such specifics (could have just sad eye mask/sleeping mask), why the specific mention of mulberry silk?

I would imagine because if they just said "eye mask", someone might imagine negative aspects that don't apply to a more luxurious/premium material like mulberry silk.

Re: Fixing annoying blue standby lights

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Post by BenFranklin100 »

What I want is a phosphorus tape that stoke shifts the blue LED light into a dimmer, longer wavelength green or red light. When we replaced our older oven that had a pleasant, dim, yellowish indicator light, we ended up with a new oven that has murderously bright blue LED that casts a ghoulish glow across the kitchen for those 3AM refrigerator raids. The new coffee maker is just as bad. Sometimes ‘progress’ moves backwards.

Re: Fixing annoying blue standby lights

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Post by demondemidi »

woutersf wrote: post #181

Only mildly related but just as annoying; old cars would have a dimmer button to reduce the backlight in the dashboard. With all the screens in midern cars, even the minimum brightness is too bright for me driving in the night.it wont let your eyes adapt to the dark. My last Hyundai had a moon button to turn off screen but that was an exception ithink. I have driven hours with a cloth over the screen of my skoda octa…

I had a 97 Saab 900 turbo with an “airplane mode” button that turned off all the dash lights except for the speedometer. It was actually pretty damn useful.

Re: Fixing annoying blue standby lights

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Post by ChatGTP »

cantSpellSober wrote: post #130
kelahcim wrote: post #122

It looks like there is this secret society working hard on making people suffer in a hotel rooms after long trips. Blue TV indicators, white and blue air condition panels, impossible to cover LEDs that are attached to fire detectors. All of that to make sure the room stays as bright as possible the whole night. I am always impressed with the efficiency of these little, bright, things. In terms of a brightness per cub…

I've started travelling with a roll of black tape because the problem you describe is so bad

What about a silk eye mask? I sleep with them at home even
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