Landrin201 @ Landrin201 @lemmy.ml

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How else would I know the power strip was on? It's not like it's charging my phone and powering the fan, if it didn't light the room up I would obviously shove forks into the sockets because that's something I regularly do in my spare time

You might have some kind of problem with your eye sight.

... good night vision?

I think it's a cost thing. It's cheaper to get these blue LEDs than the old, dimmer green ones, so they buy these instead and change nothing else. It would cost money to change the resistor value, so they don't bother. Instead they take the same boad, stick the new LED on it, and ship it that way.

I really wish that street lights were required to be turned off after midnight on all but main roads. It would help with this.

So would banning fucking motion activated spotlights that activate after a certain time at night.

The article you linked has nothing to do with the issue at hand. That specifically talks about whether blue light is causing damage to your eyes, which there isn't any evidence of and which I wasn't claiming at all in my OP.

But there is clear evidence that blue light exposure impacts our circadian rhythm, and therefore how well we sleep. Blue light can also help us, when exposed to us at the right times. There are dozens of studies about this, it's quite easy to find them. Anecdotally, I notice a BIG difference in how well I sleep in a room which is as dark as I can make it and in a room with even one single blue LED in it. I sleep better the darker the room. That lines up with what the science has shown.

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.

Oh I fully agree. I think they are WAY too bring on car headlights.

It's much harder for me to see when I'm driving an LED headlight car than when I'm driving a car with the old incandescents. I think it's because the LEDs kill all of your night vision, and are much more focussed, so the areas that are just outside of the lights seem WAY darker than with the old incandescents.

I don't mind it in a computer because the rbg makes the ram go faster 😂

But in all seriousness it bothers me less in computers because they are only on when the machine is on, so turning it off fixes the problem. Those are deliberately there to make an asthetic, so I understand it.

But the indicator lights on power strips and shit like that don't do anything

I genuinely don't understand it in light switches.

The only ones in my house that have them are the bathroom fan controllers, and I have the fancy ones that run the fan for a set amount of time, and the face of the switch uses the LEDs to show you how long it has left to run. And the LEDs on those are VERY dim, with all the lights off they don't light up the whole room.

But who needs them on, like, a ceiling fan controller?? You can see which setting your on, it's a fan. And on light switches it's just insulting.

Tbh I think we need laws about them to get this shit to stop.

It's objectively bad for people's health to be surrounded by bright light at night, because it impacts your ability to sleep.

Last night I learned the one I bought actually has two. It had one on the fan itself, and ONE IN THE FUCKING PLUG

WHO NEEDS AN LED IN A PLUG

I give up in hotel rooms and consign myself to a bad nights sleep.

I don't understand why the need a light AND a switch. Is the switch not indicator enough?

Electrical tape does the trick for me

Electrical tape is the real hack. I used to use painters tape until I saw a comment on reddit about it. Electrical tape 100% blocks all of the light with just one or two layers. It rocks.

If someone can't tell that a FAN is plugged in without TWO LEDs (one on the fan itself, another in the plug) then I'm sorry they shouldn't own the fan, they may actually hurt themselves with it.

It's a fan. When you plug it in it spins. If it isn't spinning, you either didn't plug it in, or didn't hit the power button on the fan.

What kind of tape are you using? If you use the solid black electrical tape, I've never found an led so bright that it could get through more than 3 layers of the stuff.

Do it bro it makes a huge difference. Blinking ones are even worse to me.

Yep, its part of why this drives me crazy. I notice a big difference in my sleep when I'm in, say, a hotel that has any of these LEDs in it.

That's not true though, if your oscillating fan is not plugged in then it won't spin. There's a clear difference between the on/off state.

I can't think of any device in my house that has an LED in it that really needs one to indicate on/off state. The power strips all have an on/off switch on them that clearly incicates whether you have it turned on. The devices with LEDs in the plugs will indicate whether they are on or off based on whether they work when plugged in, having an LED in the plug is just useless.