How else would I know the power strip was on? It's not like it's charging my phone and powering the fan, if it didn't light the room up I would obviously shove forks into the sockets because that's something I regularly do in my spare time
You might have some kind of problem with your eye sight.
... good night vision?
I think it's a cost thing. It's cheaper to get these blue LEDs than the old, dimmer green ones, so they buy these instead and change nothing else. It would cost money to change the resistor value, so they don't bother. Instead they take the same boad, stick the new LED on it, and ship it that way.
I really wish that street lights were required to be turned off after midnight on all but main roads. It would help with this.
So would banning fucking motion activated spotlights that activate after a certain time at night.
The article you linked has nothing to do with the issue at hand. That specifically talks about whether blue light is causing damage to your eyes, which there isn't any evidence of and which I wasn't claiming at all in my OP.
But there is clear evidence that blue light exposure impacts our circadian rhythm, and therefore how well we sleep. Blue light can also help us, when exposed to us at the right times. There are dozens of studies about this, it's quite easy to find them. Anecdotally, I notice a BIG difference in how well I sleep in a room which is as dark as I can make it and in a room with even one single blue LED in it. I sleep better the darker the room. That lines up with what the science has shown.
At leat that has a real function. It's annoying, but it's a planned annoyance, and sometimes it really is useful so it's tolerable.
But so many of these LEDs indicate nothing except "this has power," which is readily apparent 99% of the time because it's plugged in and the house has power.
Oh I fully agree. I think they are WAY too bring on car headlights.
It's much harder for me to see when I'm driving an LED headlight car than when I'm driving a car with the old incandescents. I think it's because the LEDs kill all of your night vision, and are much more focussed, so the areas that are just outside of the lights seem WAY darker than with the old incandescents.
I don't mind it in a computer because the rbg makes the ram go faster 😂
But in all seriousness it bothers me less in computers because they are only on when the machine is on, so turning it off fixes the problem. Those are deliberately there to make an asthetic, so I understand it.
But the indicator lights on power strips and shit like that don't do anything
I genuinely don't understand it in light switches.
The only ones in my house that have them are the bathroom fan controllers, and I have the fancy ones that run the fan for a set amount of time, and the face of the switch uses the LEDs to show you how long it has left to run. And the LEDs on those are VERY dim, with all the lights off they don't light up the whole room.
But who needs them on, like, a ceiling fan controller?? You can see which setting your on, it's a fan. And on light switches it's just insulting.
Tbh I think we need laws about them to get this shit to stop.
It's objectively bad for people's health to be surrounded by bright light at night, because it impacts your ability to sleep.
Last night I learned the one I bought actually has two. It had one on the fan itself, and ONE IN THE FUCKING PLUG
WHO NEEDS AN LED IN A PLUG
This is also a test