Agreed, i put https://www.lightdims.com/ or electrical tape on those. That doesn’t really work with transparent cases though.

Ha! Nice to see someone actually was annoyed enough to make a product out of this annoyance :)

because it draws attention in the showroom, increasing sales.

I've found if you use a dremmel with a fine bit, you can usually turn off the LED.

otherwise put something over it.

but yes, my solutions should not be necessary

I don't know about the X13, but a lot of ThinkPads you can control the LEDs with some settings; /sys/class/leds/tpacpi::power/brightness on Linux (also some other knobs/LEDs in there).

Thus far this has worked on every ThinkPad I've had; but again, I don't know if it will work on your X13 (or how to do it from Windows or other systems), but something to look at if you haven't already.

It would be great to disable it as it is really annoying but it does not seem to work. The file is readonly and it isn't recommended to change this: https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/rnvgyc/how_to_di...

Looking at the Linux source "tpacpi::power" is in the "TPACPI_SAFE_LEDS" list; the setting mentioned in that thread only protects things like "tpacpi::dock_active", "tpacpi::dock_status1", etc.

I checked, and my kernel doesn't have that option, and I can change it just fine ("echo 0 >/sys/class/leds/tpacpi::power/brightness", as root of course).

I like how modern routers have a button on the front to just turn off any LEDs, that's a great improvement I think.

Anyway I've got a speaker in my bedroom with an LED that won't turn off, and a USB-C hub that has a tiny blue LED that requires me to disconnect the whole thing first. Really annoying.

I have a TV with a flood light on the bottom when it's off and the IR receiver is also behind the translucent plastic for the light. It's in my bedroom and is bright enough to keep me up, so I have electrical tape over it which I then have to remove to use the TV because it doesn't have buttons.

> except it had this obnoxiously bright blue led on the front.

I keep a roll of black electrical tape in my office :)

A set of paint markers are useful for these LEDs. Especially the ones used for small figurines.