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SOoo much electrical tape around my house covering LEDs and displays. Products are designed in isolation - where one crazy-bright blue LED might be tolerable (i
by mrspeaker 6y ago
SOoo much electrical tape around my house covering LEDs and displays. Products are designed in isolation - where one crazy-bright blue LED might be tolerable (in the bright testing environment). But get a house full of devices, and that's a lot of LEDs.
The one that annoys me the most is my thinkpad. Apple made the slow, gentle "heartbeat" indicator when your laptop was asleep. It was a unique, delightful touch... for a while. Then everyone copied it (making it far less unique and delightful) - except they made the blinking faster, and the light red?!
Then Apple realised it was annoying and useless, and got rid of it... but everyone else kept them.
Thankfully there is electrical tape.
- viraptor 6y agoI hate both solutions. Many ThinkPads are okish with just a faint red led. But some also have a pulsing heartbeat blue light on the side when they're sleeping. How is that useful? On the other hand with Macs now you can't tell what it's doing sometimes. Doesn't turn on, but the haptic feedback works on the touchpad? Is it just waking up from the disk? Is it hanging? Is the battery below minimum? Who knows... The small red led on x1 carbon is my favourite.
- fanf2 6y agoApple’s sleep indicator is more like breathing than a heartbeat - it is a 5 second cycle time on my old MacBook. Not many people have a 12bpm heart rate!