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It's pretty much never changing. It's the kind of flaw we don't notice until after we've bought the products and lived with them for a while. Therefore, it doe

It's pretty much never changing. It's the kind of flaw we don't notice until after we've bought the products and lived with them for a while. Therefore, it doesn't hurt sales and therefore, there is no pressure for manufacturers to change. It sucks. As a workaround, these work great. Note that these particular ones are partial blackout stickers. They are 50-80% opaque. You can still see the light, but it won't be bright enough to annoy. If you want to darken even further you can just layer two of the stickers. https://www.amazon.com/FLANCCI-Blocking-Stickers-Dimming-Blackout/dp/B09DY1ZHKS https://www.amazon.com/FLANCCI-Blocking-Stickers-Dimming-Bla... If you need total blackout, there are similar ones available that are 100% opaque, although at that point I'm not sure why a person would buy a specialty product instead of just using regular tape...

marcosdumay 1y ago
> It's the kind of flaw we don't notice until after we've bought the products and lived with them for a while. I dunno. There is an increasing amount of products announcing "no led indicators" as a feature. And I've seen plenty of reviews with people saying things like "the on led is too bright".
- kmacdough 1y ago
  Sure, we eventually react to ubiquitous issues like blue LEDs, but it's been 2 decades since blue LEDs were new/fancy and it's just barely popping up now. It's very reactive and very slow. Just look at microwave interfaces. They haven't meaningfully changed in function in decades, and yet +30s buttons often don't start the microwave, power level can rarely be set after starting and all sorts of basic responsiveness details.
- JohnBooty 1y ago
  That's certainly good news. I did buy some rechargeable fans this year, and they had a very welcome "night mode" that shuts off the blue LEDs. I'm not sure if they exactly advertised it as a feature. The Amazon product page was kind of a soup of mangled English. I guess it was probably mentioned in there somewhere. Hopefully it's a growing trend.

marcosdumay 1y ago

> It's the kind of flaw we don't notice until after we've bought the products and lived with them for a while. I dunno. There is an increasing amount of products announcing "no led indicators" as a feature. And I've seen plenty of reviews with people saying things like "the on led is too bright".

kmacdough 1y ago
Sure, we eventually react to ubiquitous issues like blue LEDs, but it's been 2 decades since blue LEDs were new/fancy and it's just barely popping up now. It's very reactive and very slow. Just look at microwave interfaces. They haven't meaningfully changed in function in decades, and yet +30s buttons often don't start the microwave, power level can rarely be set after starting and all sorts of basic responsiveness details.
JohnBooty 1y ago
That's certainly good news. I did buy some rechargeable fans this year, and they had a very welcome "night mode" that shuts off the blue LEDs. I'm not sure if they exactly advertised it as a feature. The Amazon product page was kind of a soup of mangled English. I guess it was probably mentioned in there somewhere. Hopefully it's a growing trend.