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Taped over with electrical tape. Couldnt care less.

Duct tape or electrical tape would fix this in a jiffy.

Duck tape it. Because every single product have decided that blinding blue leds is the way to go.

I miss my dim red leds.

This is where black electric tape can be your best friend.

I usually use a little tiny piece of electrical tape, which should work unless the power button is absolutely minuscule. Desoldering it also works, but is more permanent.

You can get LED film off Amazon for like, $7. It blocks those annoying LEDs on tech devices, monitors, wall outlets, kitchen appliances, and my nemesis, smoke detectors with stupidly bright LEDs.

Best $7 you'll spend this year.

Blue LEDs are the worst offenders. No need to return it as long as you keep a bit of black tape ready. If you still need it as an indicator, you can use layers of yellowish tape. The one used while painting your walls works great. Masking tape it's called in English.

My monitor had a bright blue power LED smack in the middle of the lower bezel. I took it apart on day one and brutally ripped out the LED, only then did I ever connect it to my computer.

Tape

Likely not, it seems wasteful if the product is otherwise good in all other important regards. I'd just cover up the LED with tape or paint.

Tape

Yes but also I've just put electrical tape over many an item.

The RGB craze is the worst.

No, but I did case mod a computer for this once. My Fractal Node 202 my last computer is in has a very bright white power button LED, too damn bright. Fortunately in this case it's a standard 5mm through hole LED standing up off the board on its leads a bit, bent to point out the front. So I bent it to point upward. Dimmed it down significantly.

I have marker pens and led dims so...no

I've use a black sharpie to "tint" LEDs before. Your mileage may vary though, depending on the kind and shape of LED.

No, one of my mesh WiFi routers is in my room and too bright at night, I just put tape on it. Problem solved.

I either tape the things with Isolation in dark to see nothing or the Painters-Tape which is yellow and partly lets light through.

But colored isolation band lets the light through a bit too.

I am also a hater of unnecessarily bright lights. In your shoes, presuming I'm happy with the product otherwise, I would paint over it with a bit of nail polish.

You can get polish in any color you want these days, and it's very cheap. It dries fast and it comes with a very small brush. You can apply one coat, see if the led still shines through too much, apply another coat 15mins later once the first layer is dry. Repeat.

Edit: seeing the photo I realize the shape it has. Be careful with the polish if you use it, one coat or two probably will be okay on the inner surface but don't add more or the button may get stuck. Also wait extra before even daring to test button functionality, you don't want the button scraping off semi dry polish.

Yes

A sharpie also works.

lol, I know this pain. about 20 yrs ago i bought a shiny new pc case and expected the red leds, it had 2 super bright blue leds that were either solid on(power) or flashing(drive activity), this pc was next to my bed pointing across my bed. the entire room was lit by these and hard blue circles were projected on the wall. ended up taping a cardboard strip over them.

You could dab it with a little paint or glue or something.

Depends on the product and how inexpensive it is but generally avoid touch devices or anything with led or lights on them that are not needed because I don't need a fucking touch display for something a button can do.

I bought a air fryer a week ago and couldn't find one that had simple dials and buttons. It's fucking disgusting and it's so bright too. But hey, I can use it as a night light when I'm getting water I guess

I've not returned an item over it, but I've often wondered if there was a market for a company which de-LEDs items.

Returning it seems extreme to me... But I'm happy modding things like that.

Stick a piece of paper or card over the button/LED such that you can still depress it... Iterate/repeat until you're satisfied.

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.