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by marcosdumay 315 days ago
> It's the kind of flaw we don't notice until after we've bought the products and lived with them for a while.

I dunno. There is an increasing amount of products announcing "no led indicators" as a feature. And I've seen plenty of reviews with people saying things like "the on led is too bright".
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JohnBooty 313 days ago
That's certainly good news.

I did buy some rechargeable fans this year, and they had a very welcome "night mode" that shuts off the blue LEDs.

I'm not sure if they exactly advertised it as a feature. The Amazon product page was kind of a soup of mangled English. I guess it was probably mentioned in there somewhere.

Hopefully it's a growing trend.

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kmacdough 315 days ago
Sure, we eventually react to ubiquitous issues like blue LEDs, but it's been 2 decades since blue LEDs were new/fancy and it's just barely popping up now. It's very reactive and very slow.

Just look at microwave interfaces. They haven't meaningfully changed in function in decades, and yet +30s buttons often don't start the microwave, power level can rarely be set after starting and all sorts of basic responsiveness details.

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