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Would you return something because the power indicator LED is too bright? (lemmy.world)

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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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[-] bob_omb_battlefield@sh.itjust.works 66 points 1 day ago

Tape

[-] daggermoon@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

The problem with that is the LED also functions as the power button.

[-] adarza@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] SaltSong@startrek.website 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Carefully trimmed sticker?

EDIT: Ah, I see you've handled it. Carry on, then.

[-] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 day ago

Press on the tape?

[-] daggermoon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

The problem is it's a weird recessed button.

[-] leo@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 day ago

Nail polish might work.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago

Loose piece of tape .... then press on the weird recessed piece of tape

[-] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 26 points 1 day ago

Tape a dry bean into the recess.

[-] sdfric88@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 day ago

This is a hilarious solution

[-] daggermoon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

LMAO, maybe next time

[-] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

I would find this very annoying.

[-] lordnikon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Mask off the dock one spray of spray paint in just the LED resses

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