“Modern”

I remember when everything used red LEDs, especially alarm clocks. It was nice.

You can get tape that’s not clear nor is it completely opaque.

You can find dark colored “clear” style tape.

Alternatively, take a sharpie to some Scotch tape. Color to preference.

I use white electrical tape. It drastically reduces the light brightness but allows enough though to know the light is on.

It also falls off too easily. My favorite for this use case is black Gorilla tape. Like duct tape but thicker.

Blue light makes you awake. They should use red.

Dry erase. Just dab it to adjust darkness levels.

Black electrical tape works really well to temporarily cover LEDs.

Edit: I feel unoriginal… The very next comment I read also suggested black electrical tape. That’s why I should just lurk like always :/

Edit2: it feels like every other comment suggests electrical tape. At least I am not the only unoriginal lemming.

drop of black nail polish?

This, but I use washi tape because it is less gunky.

I have an air purifier that is stupid bright, I tried painters tape but ended up using the aluminum foil tape to block the lights

Yeah, the history of the blue LED is actually really interesting. It basically exists because one Japanese dude refused to take no for an answer, and continued working on developing them even after his company stopped funding his LED project.

You even see them in Christmas lights. They’re so retina piercingly stark, like not a chill light at all (though obv on the “cool” end of the spectrum). I’m out here walking my dog looking at the nice twinkly warm lights - no one wants to see your damned pinprick holes into the Tron dimension

They’re the “literally” of LEDs? Wrong in almost every context but people can’t stop using them?

At one point, blue LEDs were super expensive because of their difficult production.
So any product that has a blue LED was considered premium. I guess they were also considered futuristic and high-tech.
Somehow, this is still in the mind of some manufacturers.
All I want is a barely-visible-in-soft-daylight diffused/frosted red or amber LED.
But no, it’s always some 5w lensed blue LED at somehow produces a tighter beam of horrendous blue light that’s brighter than most flashlights.

Veritasium did a bit Why it was almost impossible to Make the Blue LED

And when they just started being available, props designers for scifi loved them because LEDs work much better on screen than incandescent bulbs, and blue lights were something people didn’t have yet in their household objects so a blue LED was new and interesting. Look at the Doctor Who and Torchwood props from the mid 2000s, everything from the iconic Sonic Screwdriver to alien zappers and bleepers of all kinds were full of tiny blue lights because it screamed “scifi” to the viewer.

Very quickly though, blue LEDs got cheap enough for everyday junk and manufacturers immediately shoved them into every consumer product because they were new and interesting and, thanks to the scifi trend, made stuff looked like scifi future tech you could have in real life.

Now, a couple decades on, we’re still kind of stuck there.

At least with my LG TV you can switch that off. It’s in general settings “Standby light” :)

It’s how you know that it’s waiting for your remote controller signals, right? Otherwise how would you know that the TV is waiting. Always waiting. So lonely. Please send it signals!

But how would you ever know the TV was turned off if it didn’t have a light to tell you?