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

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by daggermoon@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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

The problem is it's a weird recessed button.

[-] 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.

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

LMAO, maybe next time

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