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Some high-end monitors provide control over the power LED. My friend's NEC monitor even has a brightness control for it.

by Gracana 10y ago

heywire 10y ago
That reminds me that I covered the bright blue LED on the bottom bezel of my ViewSonic LCD with electrical tape a couple years ago. I can't believe nobody at ViewSonic thought it would be a bad idea to focus a bright blue LED towards the user of a display. I just double checked to make sure, no LED control on this monitor :(
- khedoros1 10y ago
  I've got some low-end no-name from about 2008. It's got 3 layers of paper taped over the blue power light to make it reasonable. There's also the Antec Sonata case from about 2004...it's got 2 super-bright blue LEDs with reflectors. Here's a wonderful idea: design a case to look understatedly elegant, then give it two bright blue headlights. I disconnected them after the first night.
pilif 10y ago
Once you're at the point where you have to further decrease your margin in order to make some purely cosmetical feature configurable, maybe it's time that you re-think whether you really need that feature in the first place or not. Or in this case specifically, maybe it's time to rethink whether you really need a power LED on your monitor as it will be undoubtedly obvious whether a monitor is in-fact powered or not by just looking at it.
- khedoros1 10y ago
  > as it will be undoubtedly obvious whether a monitor is in-fact powered or not by just looking at it. Will it? Is the screen dark because it's off (janitor bumped it at night), because my laptop didn't wake up when I docked it, or because I forgot to plug the cable back in after fooling with an SBC on that monitor yesterday? The power light makes the state of the monitor obvious, and so does an image displaying on it. The light's useful for the edge cases when there isn't an image being displayed.

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Some high-end monitors provide control over the power LED. My friend's NEC monitor even has a brightness control for it.

by Gracana 10y ago

Some high-end monitors provide control over the power LED. My friend's NEC monitor even has a brightness control for it.

heywire 10y ago
That reminds me that I covered the bright blue LED on the bottom bezel of my ViewSonic LCD with electrical tape a couple years ago. I can't believe nobody at ViewSonic thought it would be a bad idea to focus a bright blue LED towards the user of a display. I just double checked to make sure, no LED control on this monitor :(
- khedoros1 10y ago
  I've got some low-end no-name from about 2008. It's got 3 layers of paper taped over the blue power light to make it reasonable. There's also the Antec Sonata case from about 2004...it's got 2 super-bright blue LEDs with reflectors. Here's a wonderful idea: design a case to look understatedly elegant, then give it two bright blue headlights. I disconnected them after the first night.
pilif 10y ago
Once you're at the point where you have to further decrease your margin in order to make some purely cosmetical feature configurable, maybe it's time that you re-think whether you really need that feature in the first place or not. Or in this case specifically, maybe it's time to rethink whether you really need a power LED on your monitor as it will be undoubtedly obvious whether a monitor is in-fact powered or not by just looking at it.
- khedoros1 10y ago
  > as it will be undoubtedly obvious whether a monitor is in-fact powered or not by just looking at it. Will it? Is the screen dark because it's off (janitor bumped it at night), because my laptop didn't wake up when I docked it, or because I forgot to plug the cable back in after fooling with an SBC on that monitor yesterday? The power light makes the state of the monitor obvious, and so does an image displaying on it. The light's useful for the edge cases when there isn't an image being displayed.