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Electrical tape has been such a huge friend to me.

Put a powerstrip under my nightstand to service my lamp and the growing universe of chargers? Blue led on it was bright enough to be a nightlight. Tape!

So on and so forth.

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Depending on whether you still want the status light, painter's tape or similar can be quite nice.

I use strips from lightdims.com also available from Amazon and other places. Comes in a sheet of precut circles and squares in different sizes so you can stick it over just the LED. Seems to have better sticking power than painters tape. They also have sheets of white / translucent if you want to dim the brightness but still have some color pass through.

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