That’s a gamer, not a software engineer
I mean, I do have RGB lights but it’s not because I’m a software engineer. I’m just a dork.
Lol thank you for making that, I had that meme in mind while I was writing that reply.
I specifically built my computer to have as much RGB as possible. Also because I’m a dork.
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I’m a software engineer and while I do have 2 monitors I have absolutely no RGB anything. Just a nice clean setup. My main monitor is on a wall-mounted arm so it appears to just float above my desk. My MacBook is hidden behind the other monitor, which is in portrait and on an arm so it floats just above my desk. Wireless mouse and keyboard (magic mouse and magic keyboard with numeric, both in black/aluminium), no visible wires. One single thunderbolt cable to connect my MacBook to a dock that’s hidden below my desk, which hooks up to my monitors, ethernet, amplifier, etc.
When forced to have rgb components… I disabled them. If nothing else it’s yet another point of failure and extra waste heat.
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!
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.
Hah, jokes on you, I have an ultra wide.
Which is basically two monitors without any separator in the middle.
Ooh, the thinest of bezels: none.
once you go two ultrawides you will enter a new realm of existence.
Side by side or stacked on top?
Stacked on top, and vertical orientation since we’re not doing Java here!
Six vertical ultrawides is the only way.
Side by side most of the time. I put them on arms so I can move them around and swivel them. It’s ridiculous having two 34" Ultrawides. But, I can. So I Do. I also run a 3rd 40" 4k display when I need it or want to sit further back.
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.
34” 5k2k ultrawide as main monitor and a 27” 4k in portrait for documentation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Exactly! Even the indicator light of my speakers bothers me during long nightly sessions. I want to see the screen, nothing else.
Only 2 monitors? Them be rookie numbers, need to get them up
3 is good
At a previous job I had, we were only given options for 1080p monitors. I ended up with a total of 5 and needed all of them.
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
Can’t you just turn it off?
With some proprietary crashware that runs only on Windows drivers and with 7 background services, yes.
OpenRGB is worth checking out if you haven’t already
My RAM goes back to unicorn puke each time I turn my computer on.
Most GPU’s don’t even come without blinking lights anymore.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bring back beige boxes!
I could go for that pale grey which slowly turns yellow, I think the material is called Nintendium
just wait until you rice your distro, then you become a middle aged father who lusts after vintage cars.
And brown poop fans
I do have 2 monitors. But I have an opaque side panel. Case closed. Pun intended.
I don’t know how to make my RAM be not a rainbow and I’m too lazy to look it up
True Neutral
the fuck is a rainbow computer?
You mean the kind of really powerful computer with RGB lights on the outside of the tower?
Yes I do have one of those. I have a couple of flashlights with auxiliary lights like that too.
Rainbow RAM or rainbow keyboard or anything else. Yes, you qualify.
Monitors – hell yes! RGB – can’t stand it. My keyborad has a plain white backlight and that’s it. It’s purely functional.
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
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
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.
I have a rainbow computer with only one monitor. Am I not a software engineer?
34+ inch ultra wide screens get a pass.
Naah, just a 27 inch regular monitor.
Software engineer with smol pp
Please don’t share such secrets in a public forum.
Unless it’s one of those ultra wides, how do you get any work done if you can only see one screen worth of code and things that help the code?
Maybe, I am not that good of a software engineer. Probably, why I don’t get jobs, despite thinking that I did well for the interview?
It’s the only possible explanation
We are just carrying on the tradition of das blinkenlights
RGB is overrated
