I got a HDD dock from startech.com. It works great and does everything I need. The problem is it has the brightest goddamn blue LED I have ever seen. It is so unnecessarily bright. My eyes hurt looking in the same direction as it. What the fuck should I do? Return it? De solder the stupid ass LED? It works great aside from this one issue.

Edit: I opened the thing and drew with sharpie on the LED. It’s bearable to look at now.

  • rivvvver@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    12 hours ago

    some good ideas here already. i just wanted to suggest that if ur going to open it, the option of adding a small resistor in series is also there. thatll lower the current going thru the LED and make it darker.

    • daggermoon@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      11 hours ago

      When I opened it there was room for the LED and not much else. It was soldered directly to the board. I did consider it until I saw inside.