Why does every small appliance or useful home electronics item have the BRIGHTEST LEDs in them?

I bought a new fan for our bedroom Sunday. It has 4 speed settings, and LEDs to display which setting you’re on.

Just like every other electrical device in our bedroom, I had to cover the LEDs with electrical tape because they are TOO DAMM BRIGHT. That one light was more than bright enough for me to see in the room with all the lights off.

I can’t sleep well if there’s a lot of light like that, especially blue light, and it’s like every fucking electronics manufacturer used the same extra bright blue LEDs.

All of our power strips have them. Same brightness.

The fans have them.

Don’t even get me started on digital clocks and the plague of bright LEDs that they bring about

Many charging plugs have them built into the plug itself.

Even some fucking light switches have them now!

I have about 6 different things in our bedroom that have electrical tape over their completely unnecessary LEDs.

Why has this become such a common thing? Is this really something most people want? To have a room that is never actually dark even with the lights turned off?

  • mathemachristian[he]@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Or how every appliance needs to have an alarming beeeeeeep to alert you its done. Like its cool that you finished sterilizing our babies bottles but it wasn’t really urgent…

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      1 year ago

      Like the coffee grinder which beeps to let you know that the [rather loud] grinding process has finished!

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      1 year ago

      At leat that has a real function. It’s annoying, but it’s a planned annoyance, and sometimes it really is useful so it’s tolerable.

      But so many of these LEDs indicate nothing except “this has power,” which is readily apparent 99% of the time because it’s plugged in and the house has power.

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        1 year ago

        My favorite implementation of this is on a GPU power plug for a PC. The PSU will supply the power the GPU needs, but it has about 75w of “dirty” power from being plugged in to the motherboard, which it is plugged into for data. One company has LEDs only come on when the GPU power plug isn’t plugged in. This way, if it comes uncoupled ever so slightly during a move, the warning LEDs by the plug come on. But otherwise they are off. Easy to diagnose, and when the LEDs turn off, you know it’s plugged in.

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      1 year ago

      My oven sounds exactly like my fire alarm, it’s distressing, the first time I used it I ended up running to the kitchen thinking I was going to find the place burning.

      At least my washing machine plays a cute little tune.

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        1 year ago

        At least my washing machine plays a cute little tune.

        Is it an LG?


        I’m done with the laundry
        dirty and stinky old laundry
        I’m done with the laundry
        what do you want from me now?

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      1 year ago

      I moved into a place with a weird dishwasher with an earsplitting beep when it’s done. Never had one of these like this before. It chimes every 10 minutes for about 30 minutes. It’s really annoying when you forget about the sound. I used to run my dishwasher when I went to bed. Not anymore. :(

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        1 year ago

        I laugh at those annoying jingles. Our washing machine sounds so pleased with itself when it has finished a load, playing a bright, happy, celebratory song. Pay attention to me! I have completed my assigned task!

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          1 year ago

          One day they are going to be beeping at us like R2D2 providing way too much information.

          “Beepity beep beep warble beep boop!” Translation - Dude use tissues, those socks were disgusting.