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Light Dims! http://www.lightdims.com/index.php

Little sticky cellophane pieces, that you can put on the little LED lights on all modern electronics, so that you can still see them but they're not so bright.

Because I hate being surrounded by blinkenlights that are a bit too bright and hurt my eyes in the dark.

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Nice. I had an idea about making the same sort of product but with gels to change the color of the LED and dim it as well. Haven't gotten around to testing it out but might do it now that I see this.

You can also use nail polish - will block some of the light and change the hue. As many different shades of polish available as you can imagine. Some shades block more light than others

Huh. I hadn't thought of this before. I'll have to give it a try, thanks! That's a super flexible and cheap option, and I imagine some of the opaque nail polishes would probably nearly block it.

No worries! Nail polish is one of my favourite "hacks", quite durable so it's good for touching up bike frames (especially chainstays, which easily chip), aside from blocking excess lumens from LEDs.

Such a simple solution... I have some aggressive LEDs covered in black tape around the home. Especially terrible if you have electronics in the bedroom before sleep

Oh wow, this exists? Looks more efficient than my combination of duct tape, paper, and a black maker.

electrical tape is the way to go.

Wow, cool product!

I mostly resort to poorly applied swatches of electrical tape (black) all over the place.

My current nemesis is the PS5 in "rest mode", bright orange/yellow glowing all the time!

Heh. For that price I may get some - personally I've just stuck a few post-its (maybe taped in place) onto these LEDs. Electrical tape is very effective too.

It's kinda fun to look at them a couple weeks later, and see how they get completely bleached by the light.

I had some old theater gels around and cut them up for this purpose.

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