• @Axolotl@feddit.de
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      If you have a small child you can distract it with the pretty lights while you are gaming. Or at least thats what I am told.

    • Justas🇱🇹
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      My case has RGB fans. Not because I wanted them, but because I wanted a PC between Covid lockdowns, had to pick from a small selection and RGB fans cost less than regular ones.

    • @Darkblue@lemmy.world
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      Okay, I’ll bite:

      Why are you putting a by-nc-sa 4.0 copyright disclaimer in your posts? Does that actually limit/grant anything?

      Serious question, I don’t understand.

      • @onlinepersona@programming.dev
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        It’s just for AI training. Opensource AI = good and allowed, commercial, closed source AI = bad.

        I could look into poisoning their training set, but am too lazy atm. Maybe another time. Spoilers might come in handy for that. Maybe a spoiler like below would come in handy for now?

        Anti Commercial AI

        CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

        • @Darkblue@lemmy.world
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          Ah, I see. Thanks for taking the time to explain!

          The spoiler could be handy if people keep asking you questions like I did.

  • @ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world
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    101 year ago

    It’s a shame some of the better components have baby-sensory RGB lights tacked on. I’d have bought my parts plain if that was a convenient choice.

    Oh also

    mmmaaadddeee wwwiiittthhh mmmeeemmmaaatttiiiccc

  • @Muffi@programming.dev
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    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
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      61 year 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.

    • @olutukko@lemmy.world
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      I’m not even that old, born in 2000, but I have never enjoyed the rgb bullshit on computers. I even specifially got my keyboard without backlight so I could have a wirelles one with decent battery life

      • KillingTimeItself
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        21 year ago

        most backlit keyboards let you disable the lighting, and have fairly legible legends without to begin with.

        Or you can just touch type like me. Thats what i do with my wireless keyb, i have the backlight if i need it though.

    • @ripcord@lemmy.world
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      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.

      • @smeg@feddit.uk
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        I could go for that pale grey which slowly turns yellow, I think the material is called Nintendium

    • KillingTimeItself
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      21 year ago

      just wait until you rice your distro, then you become a middle aged father who lusts after vintage cars.

    • @rooster_butt@lemm.ee
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      I just made the switch from 3 24 inch monitor to a single 49 inch super ultrawide. It’s basically 3 monitors with no bezels. A lot of things are annoying though like full-screening videos/games but there are workarounds.

      • @JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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        My biggest problem with 4k and ultra wide monitors is screen sharing (like on zoom/teams/WebEx etc).

        Most people still have 1080p screens at best, so when someone with a 4k or ultra wide shares their screen, it’s really tough to see what’s going on.

        My main display is a 4k TV, but if I have to share, I’m sharing a window, or one of my auxiliary (1080p) screens.

        • @rooster_butt@lemm.ee
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          I’ve resorted to just sharing my laptop screen. You can also use picture by picture to get split displays which are easier to share.

    • @datelmd5sum@lemmy.world
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      Yeah I went from 1 32" 1440p and two 1080p side monitors to just a single 4k 43" and I’m saying that the time of multi monitor setups has come to an end.

  • Dwemthy (he/him)
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    141 year ago

    I don’t know how to make my RAM be not a rainbow and I’m too lazy to look it up

  • 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
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      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
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        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
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    31 year ago

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

  • Mr. Satan
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    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
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      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

  • Psychadelligoat
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    The blinky lights make it compile faster!

    I’m getting older but nah, fuck it, I like RGB lighting in my build. I have a cool mostly open case with a glass front that you can wall mount Pretty sure it’s an older version of this thing. if not it’s a very similar setup and making all my components glisten red or react to explosions in an FPS just feels cool to me.

    I turn down the brightness though cuz holy shit they come set to 2x the sun by default

    • @Kurokujo@lemm.ee
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      Same. I also have one of the older models in that family of cases. I love the thing but need to put in a water cooling loop.

    • @JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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      Not a software engineer (network engineer…so I dabble in Python but that’s about it).

      Still, my work setup has over 14.5 million pixels spread across 4 displays, and usually another laptop or tablet going as well.

    • I have some rgb on, laptop has back lightning that is brighter than my lamp though so that’s never on unless I need a torch and for some reason don’t have my phone.

  • I had my PC built for me while all i had to do was specify parts, tried to get fans with no light just to avoid this, got the almost exact model but with lights.

    Now if i use my PC at night my room glows pink (not for any particular reason besides it being the most dominant in my rainbow led fans)

      • There’s an extra device which is required to control them, yes i already tried the bios.

        Basically yes, rainbow, at least it’s not rotating and is just a static rainbow circle.