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I own a Pinephone for years now and there is one feature that never did anything but waste battery life and that's the notification LED! It keeps blinking for eternity if it starts once, triggers for no reason from time to time, activates for every little action even if the notification is long gone or disapers the second you try to look at it and is bright enough to light a entire room at night! I looked around online and apparently it's usually linked to some Systemd component but PostmarketOS uses OpenRC, is there any config to easily disable it under all circumstances or something?

Edit: I counted on a feedbackd equivalent but apparently it uses feedbackd too, that just doesn't seem to handle the LED, just notifications and vibration.

Edit 2: I managed to find promising configs in /sys/class/leds but the max_brightness files which seem like the solution to me are read only and I am not sure if I can safely bypass that or if I will break something and I have no clue if it will even help.

Edit 3: There is also a file called "repeat" in there and I can set that to 1 which reduces the blinking to a single time but the system keeps overwriting it so I don't think that's going to be a solution.

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