I go out of my way to find components that don't have RGB lighting on them. When I use my computer, I want to be looking at the screens (the two-monitor part is true,) not the case.

[–] zerofk@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Exactly! Even the indicator light of my speakers bothers me during long nightly sessions. I want to see the screen, nothing else.

[–] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

I've got a piece of black tape over the power line on my computer, because it is too bright. And I have masking tape over the caps/num/scroll-lock lights on my keyboard; because they are also too bright. (The light is much gentler through the masking tape.)

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 points 6 months ago

One monitor connected to a thinkpad, mechanical computer from early 2000s, it's software engineering time.

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Yeah I hate that it seems now you have to pay a premium to NOT have RGB

I stray away from it as much as possible

[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 1 points 6 months ago

Most GPU's don't even come without blinking lights anymore.

[–] Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Can't you just turn it off?

[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

With some proprietary crashware that runs only on Windows drivers and with 7 background services, yes.

[–] metaldream@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 months ago

OpenRGB is worth checking out if you haven’t already

[–] mr_satan@monyet.cc 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Monitors – hell yes! RGB – can't stand it. My keyborad has a plain white backlight and that's it. It's purely functional.

[–] Mesa@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago

~~Could one argue that your conscious choice to not pick an RGB backlit keyboard is in part because of your aversion to it, therefore making it somewhat of an aesthe-~~

RGB == FPS bro

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

When forced to have rgb components.. I disabled them. If nothing else it's yet another point of failure and extra waste heat.

[–] mynamesnotrick@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 months ago

Yep, I have an fully enclosed case. Only RGB is my water cooling block on my cpu that I left the rgb header unplugged. Even though I would never see it, I am a person of principle, damn it!

[–] abcdqfr@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

Speaking of heat, I ended up turning my stupid stinky rgb on to display the temperatures of various components. Blue to red the hotter it gets. RAM shows ram temp, water block shows cpu package, radiator fans for coolant/core max, gpu does gpu, etc. Actually pretty useful.

[–] brlemworld@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Wtf is a rainbow computer?

[–] capital@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

RGB bro

[–] Simmy@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 6 months ago

Can they just call it what it is? RGB

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

I gave you an upvote because I came to ask the same thing.

We've wandered into a bad neighborhood...

[–] xor@infosec.pub 0 points 6 months ago

check out pcmasterrace, people throw a bunch of colored lights on their custom computers...

[–] Muffi@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Guys, I think age is making us boring. I also personally prefer black rectangles and soft neutral lights, but I think we're the bories.

[–] EpeeGnome@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

I work at a small computer shop and I love putting all those RGB lights in for people. Especially when I can do a full aRGB setup with a SignalRGB layout so patterns can move across the whole machine. For my own computer the only lights are the tiny power and hard drive activity lights, and I wouldn't have it any other way. RGB lights belong only in other people's computers.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I'm also oldish. But man, I freaking love lights. Of all kinds. I just love making shit out of lights or doing weird things. LEDs and neopixels are amazing. I have permanently installed lights on the house, and entire (small) room in the house dedicated for a honelab with RGB everywhere. It's cool as shit (to me).

But not on my work systems. That would be really annoying. Soft lights and elegant design for me.

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

To me, RGB is like a cheap car with a bad paint job and too many neon. If I could put my computer in a closet, I would.

[–] bi_tux@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

don't even have one of em glass windows on my pc and happy with it

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Stereotypes exists so that I can be the 5% that doesn't fall into them.

Two monitors but a solid case side panel (in fact it's a case that's so old that at the time TG side panels were not common). If I could be at liberty to choose parts purely based on looks, I'd go with something black, minimalistic and with no RGB.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No, I don't have useless LEDs in my computer. My gaming rig is actually in a flat black case that blends in with the furniture.

Except my employer shipped me a dev box with a big polycarbonate window and an unnecessarily beefy GPU with RGB LEDs that dance by default. 🤦

[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I wonder if anyone has studied the rate of cosmic ray-induced bit flips in a PC with a side window case vs. an all metal one.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's an interesting question, but realistically inconsequential.

[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Do you mean that you think bit flips are inconsequential, or that the rate of bit flips is inconsequential?

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The rate for your home PC is inconsequential, and the difference between a thin sheet of metal and lexan would have an inconsequential impact.

But flips are not inherently inconsequential. Coincidentally, a lot of my current work involves making sure we are not adversely affected by cosmic bit flips in safety-critical hardware.

[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The rate for your home PC is inconsequential,

Please don't make assumptions about my data integrity needs.

But thanks for clarifying what you meant.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

If you have real data integrity needs, you shouldn't be relying on off-the-shelf home PC parts. There's real hardware and software for such applications.

Your basement is safe enough from cosmic rays for your personal needs.

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hah, jokes on you, I have an ultra wide.

Which is basically two monitors without any separator in the middle.

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 1 points 6 months ago

Ooh, the thinest of bezels: none.

[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago

I think I'm up to 5 spread across two different workstations, but no rgb that shits annoying to me.

[–] 0Xero0@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They don't get it, RGB equals performance!

[–] el_bhm@lemm.ee 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No it does not.

Red is for performance. Green energy saving. Blue is not important for this argument.
And if it goes 16 bazzilion colors it is even more BS and nothing.

Goes magenta and you start going Bi. Next on? Pink - full gay mode. And as soon as you go white - back to straight again.

It might cause brain damage in the long term. Wear your socks guys.

[–] ImGonnaTryScience@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Blue makes it run cooler. smh people these days don't know anything about computer

[–] el_bhm@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

How a cool computor is relevant for sexual cycling?

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 0 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Only 2 monitors? Them be rookie numbers, need to get them up

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