Black electrical tape :D

Did anyone suggest using black electrical tape yet?

Black pen. Black sharpie. Black electrical tape. Black duct tape. Black roofing felt. Black tar. Black hole.

Tape, electrical black.

Painters tape and a sharpie. Layered.

-Autist with severe light sensitivity

Probably no one's thought of this yet, but i'm going to say black electrical tape. If you put it over your eyes it takes care of all your devices at once.

Black nail polish. Two coats.

Have a friend stand in front of it

Black electrical tape, work better than any software

You could always Dremel it out. First try black electrical tape.

Brown electrical tape, if you don't have black electrical tape.

Tape.

A piece of black, electrical tape

I'd recommend an strip of paper or plastic, ideally with adhesive on one side. Ideally a dark color, like black.

The age old solution of TAPE.

There’s nothing which duct tape can’t fix.

Blu tack, cheap, reusable, nondestructive, and blocks light better than tape. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu_Tack

Activity lights are useful! Try a layer (or two, or three) of matte-finish transparent tape to turn down the brightness a bit.

Electrical tape. Black.

For an actual answer, it looks like WD has something called wdckit that is available on request.

I see a corresponding AUR entry that looks like it's grabbing some zip from a personal Russian CDN. Super sketchy looking tbh.

But it's possible this tool has whatever functionality the windows WD Utility uses to toggle the light in the drive's firmware.

IMO, it's not worth it. I'd just go the electrical tape route and maybe ask WD Customer Support if there's a way, and if not, ask that they support Linux better in the future.

Black electrical tape

Have you tried plucking your eyes out?

Hack the firmware. Kidding just use tape.

I am surprised everyone think the same thing as me

They sell travel sized rolls of that gorilla tape.

It sticks to just about anything, pretty much forever, and is totally opaque.

Should work like a charm.

Matte black nail polish....works there and on annoying Bluetooth lights

A big-ass hammer.

I found a bit of plasticine / modeling clay to be very effective.

Because in the rare case that some circuit relies on the led acting as a resistor (planned obsolescence), you'd break the device with forcefully removing it.

(the green part)

Huh!, just Disconnect the drive from power source and it will OFF.

Just empty the blinker led fluid.

why not a tape, black, for electrical things

gaff tape

Try brightnessctl. If it does not recognize it, go with some tape I guess.

Why don't you solve the problem at the root? Take it apart and rip it out.

Duct tape

You know those rubber feet things you can get that you put on furniture legs? I love those. Block out the LED lights on the air conditioning in the bedroom, computers, etc.

I think black nail polish can work too, if you know any BTGGs.

Orient it so the LED is facing away from you, with the LED facing a surface covered with Vantablack or some such equivalent. This saves on tape etc...

Disassemble it then rip the led