I got a HDD dock from startech.com. It works great and does everything I need. The problem is it has the brightest goddamn blue LED I have ever seen. It is so unnecessarily bright. My eyes hurt looking in the same direction as it. What the fuck should I do? Return it? De solder the stupid ass LED? It works great aside from this one issue.
Edit: I opened the thing and drew with sharpie on the LED. It’s bearable to look at now.
Returning it seems extreme to me… But I’m happy modding things like that.
Stick a piece of paper or card over the button/LED such that you can still depress it… Iterate/repeat until you’re satisfied.