Normally I like blue

What ever happened to an unobtrusive light on a device that simply indicated the status. Unobtrusive is the key point here. We now have more lights on our various electronics to tell us more things than we really care about. This worst part is that the entire damn industry has decided that ultra bright blue LED’s are the way to go. I am getting ready to stick electrical tape over every damn one, on every device I own. My room looks like an arcade when I turn the lights out. Why does my home router need to have eight of these damn things? Why does my air filter need to have a huge one around the damn speed control knob? Why do I need a light to tell me that a device is turned off?

I can’t understand how any engineer that should be well versed in physics would not point out the inherent problem with a blue light. Blue photons scatter extremely well. That’s why the sky is blue folks. Pick a colour of light that doesn’t scatter so it doesn’t illuminate the entire room. Just so you know, violet isn’t it.

I have blue LED’s on:

• wireless router (many of them)
  
• monitor (and orange to tell me it’s off)
  
• speakers (and red to tell me it’s off)
  
• NAS
  
• external hard drive x2
  
• air filter
  
• probably other things that I’m forgetting

I must find the tape this weekend, or buy some.