[OT] "The Condescending UI" (was: Do we need Win95/98/Me support?)

[Derek]

On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:08:40 +1100, Steven Schveighoffer  
<schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Me too :)  We have a TV in the bedroom where the light was so bright, my  
> wife couldn't sleep.  So I taped over it.
>
> My new TV has a much dimmer light, but it's still there.  You can  
> configure the light to turn off when it's on, but you can't configure it  
> to be off all the time.  Again, I think genius politicians who know much  
> better than me how to keep my family safe have decided this for me...

Turn it off at the wall switch. You save some energy costs and get a tiny  
bit more exercise too.

-- 
Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia