Why does every small appliance or useful home electronics item have the BRIGHTEST LEDs in them?
I bought a new fan for our bedroom Sunday. It has 4 speed settings, and LEDs to display which setting you’re on.
Just like every other electrical device in our bedroom, I had to cover the LEDs with electrical tape because they are TOO DAMM BRIGHT. That one light was more than bright enough for me to see in the room with all the lights off.
I can’t sleep well if there’s a lot of light like that, especially blue light, and it’s like every fucking electronics manufacturer used the same extra bright blue LEDs.
All of our power strips have them. Same brightness.
The fans have them.
Don’t even get me started on digital clocks and the plague of bright LEDs that they bring about
Many charging plugs have them built into the plug itself.
Even some fucking light switches have them now!
I have about 6 different things in our bedroom that have electrical tape over their completely unnecessary LEDs.
Why has this become such a common thing? Is this really something most people want? To have a room that is never actually dark even with the lights turned off?
The gradual spread of light pollution has gotten crazy, and people still don’t really notice it. We’re at the point that it’s actually driving insects to extinction. If you look somewhere rural vs. urban the difference in what constitutes “night” is mindblowing, and rural areas are getting brighter all the time themselves.
I’m honestly a bit surprised that we don’t have mandatory dimmers installed in all major buildings that turn off the lights after X hour or x number of hours without any movement.
That, and motion sensors and dimmers on street lights with shades on them to prevent light from being blasted into people’s homes and apartments.
This much light pollution can’t be healthy.
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.
Or maybe, more surgically, we require that lights only illuminate the owner’s property.