Also, F Dell for not putting power/sleep lights on their laptops anymore. It was the only reliable of way of knowing whether its safe for me to put my laptop in the bag without cooking itself to death.
Also, F Dell for not putting power/sleep lights on their laptops anymore. It was the only reliable of way of knowing whether its safe for me to put my laptop in the bag without cooking itself to death.
Yes! It makes me crazy that product designers continue removing helpful LED indicators users rely on - all to maybe a save couple pennies per unit. Other offenders are power supply bricks not having a small LED lit when it's receiving power and Ethernet switches not having RJ-45 sockets with the standard-forever dual orange/green indicators. Sometimes power bricks are on extension cords or power strips which get turned off or kicked loose. Yes, users could open the laptop, log in and finish some pending Windows update just to confirm it's still charging. But that's stupid.
Just this week I needed a cheap, generic 5-port unmanaged switch and almost clicked buy without noticing they'd used connectors without indicators. I quickly found another unit with all the same features and (probably) the same chip and board, which did have LEDs - and it was $5 less! Yes, I could walk to wherever the cable goes to check that the device is on, active and what speed it's at but that's stupid.
Relatedly, there is a lesser circle of hell reserved for product designers of consumer devices intended for daily desktop or nighttime bedside use, like wireless phone charging stands, who put an LED on it that is so fucking BRIGHT it could give a sunburn. Some of them go for extra credit by making the Lighthouse of the Gods BLINK like aircraft landing lights - when indicating normal use - not an exception state.