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.
The problem with that is the LED also functions as the power button.
Carefully trimmed sticker?
EDIT: Ah, I see you’ve handled it. Carry on, then.
i had a monitor like that once. big bright af blue power light baked into the power button, bottom center of the bezel. blue led was the ‘new’ thing back then. the barton-era matching pc (which i didn’t have) had a larger matching button on its front. if you know your '00s pavilions, you know the ones.
it was horrible. that monitor lived its entire life with a black piece of paper taped over the whole switch and light. i was not saddened when it finally gave up and failed to turn on. i was more annoyed that it took 15 years for it to fail.
Press on the tape?
The problem is it’s a weird recessed button.
I would find this very annoying.
Nail polish might work.
Loose piece of tape … then press on the weird recessed piece of tape
Tape a dry bean into the recess.
This is a hilarious solution
LMAO, maybe next time
Mask off the dock one spray of spray paint in just the LED resses