Another point in the endless war against useless always-on LEDs. (My least favorite was a night light with a switch. It had an always-on LED when plugged in even if you switched the night light off. Instant e-waste.)
Working from home with my desk in my bedroom, I grew to hate the always-on, bright blue LED on my USB-C laptop dock. I get it, you're plugged in, go away and take your light pollution with you.
For desktops, a nice solution is to hook up the power led to the speaker connection. At some point, pc speakers stopped coming with cases as they did in the past. And power leds have been mostly useless for a long time.
The cheap bunch of LED stickers that I bought 3 years ago has been so good with this. They were sold as "6mm Round 10 Colour Dot Sticker Circle Sticky Self Adhesive Label" on ebay.
LEDs on the electric toothbrush shining brigher than a thousand suns? Put stickers on them.
LEDs on the dog water fountain illuminating the whole living room at night? Put stickers on them.
The funny thing is that the LEDs are so bright that they still shine through the stickers. Except that now it's at the brightness level they should have had in the first place.
I did that to LED fans that came with a case one time.
I like LightDims a lot. I realize I could just use tape, but I can always find the right size and shape that way on smaller devices, plus a little light comes through. It just doesn't shine.
The last time I cutout a blue power LED, it was so bright that it not only would light up the room the device (speakers) was in, but it would also light the hallway outside the room if the door was left open.
It was so bright that even two layers of gaff tape didn't resolve the situation.
It's crazy. I often wonder about the reasoning behind choosing to use these LEDs is. Does nobody actually use these device in the real world during development?
