Why are so many gaming parts made with annoying leds? I wouldn't mind having a case with a transparent window in order to quickly check if said computer needs a cleanup but those lights are so annoying this is a no go.

I could disable most leds from my mainboard settings but not for my gpu. I can turn off the lights of my cheap mechanical keyboard with a shortcut but they always turn on by default when I turn the computer.

Is there a database of parts without stupid lights included by default? It should be the norm but it seems it has become rare or you have to pay a premium or install conpanion apps to be able to turn them off by default..

It upsets me that you often have to pay extra to remove this thing that cost them money to put in, costs me money to use, increases the complexity, adds more points of failure, isn’t even nice, and is sometimes even actively worse (e.g. a backlit keyboard is much worse than high-contrast printing if you always have good lighting, especially if the caps are white).

I unplug what I can, and cut what I must.

A window to check on dust? Surely you mean a camera connected to a CV pipeline so an agent could order a can of compressed air?

The cheapest RAM I could find at the time had an annoying "breathing rainbow" RGB mode. The software to control them is extremely buggy and would fail to turn off the LEDs regularly. So I just scratched the power traces off my RAM going to the LEDs at the top of the PCB. No more RGB!