They are still used where not needed and Way too bright usually. I have more than once used precisely placed electrical tape to reduce them down to a pinhole or slit.
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blue leds may fuck up your circadian rhytm but won't give you ballsack cancer (probably)
i heard it's because leds get brighter per mA but circuits don't get updated and leds are fed the same current as 5, 10 years ago
yeah? Im not saying thats right but as a person who builds things with LEDs, if you give them too much voltage without the right resistor they burn out quicikly
It was 2015 10 years ago
"In economics, the Jevons paradox occurs when technological advancements make a resource more efficient to use (thereby reducing the amount needed for a single application); however, as the cost of using the resource drops, [...] this results in overall demand increasing, causing total resource consumption to rise." Wikipedia
I bought a 22 inch Samsung monitor in 2007 and was annoyed as hell with the extremely bright blue LED under the power button. I never knew untill now why it was there. I just thought it was bad design. I always put something in front of it.
I've always covered annoying lights with electrical tape.
Same thing happened to blue dyes. It used to be very expensive, but Prussian Blue being invented in the 18th Century made it show up everywhere cause it used to be so fancy, and then it just became a cheap dye.
Though the French loved that shit for government official and soldier uniforms, and supposedly that's why cops wear blue
there's indigo and another plant that grows in europe and also makes indigo but less, so you can just farm this thing, unlike purple dye that requires tons of work, and depending on period it was used by commoners (before 1200 or so, in western europe)
it's a bit funny to look at this today, but woad (that euro indigo) trade was a big deal, it got protected by tariffs and blockades and diplomacy, and all for nothing, ultimately both woad and indigo farming was completely destroyed by synthetic indigo production. indigo wasn't first/easiest dye to make, but it's far from the most complex thing you can cook, even in 1900s. prussian blue is much cheaper than synthetic indigo anyway