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.

  • RobotZap10000@feddit.nl
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    8 hours ago

    Every modern router that I’ve worked with has an option to turn the lights off at night. Does the control panel of your router have that too?

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      It technically has got that setting, but sometimes I’ll do a weird shift or do something that requires me to sleep when it would otherwise be on. I don’t want it permanently off because if I pick it up and look under I can still see the light if I need to and that’s quicker than changing settings in the app.

      The tape works and you can’t see it, so I have no need to do it in software.