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?
Police got these super bright LED lights here recently (Germany). When I drive on a countryside road at night and police is in the incoming traffic, I am blinded for at least 15 seconds. I have to stare at my hood and the right strip of the road directly in front of me in order to not just veer off.
I wonder whether I’m just oddly sensitive to light or if someone really fucked up. They are way too bright.
They are supposed to be aimed down, but some manufacturers don’t do this. On a 2021 subaru, you can practically paint a perfectly flat line on a wall at even a considerable distance. They are surgically flat and pointed down. Perfectly illumates people’s legs from far away, but not their upper bodies.