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I think I’m up to 5 spread across two different workstations, but no rgb that shits annoying to me.
Yeah I always make it one color or turn the LEDs off completely given the chance.
One monitor connected to a thinkpad, mechanical computer from early 2000s, it’s software engineering time.
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)
It’s not even controllable RGB? Just shitty rainbow all the time?
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 watermark over the watermark on this…for that extra shitposty goodness.
Hah, jokes on you, I have an ultra wide.
Which is basically two monitors without any separator in the middle.
34” 5k2k ultrawide as main monitor and a 27” 4k in portrait for documentation.
Have a 27" 1440 in portrait for a side monitor. Best decision I ever made with my monitor set up.
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.
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.
That’s a gamer, not a software engineer
Yeah, as a software engineer I have 3 monitors if you include the one built into my laptop
I have 4 if you count the TV in my lounge I can connect to via AirPlay.
What about my phone’s display, does that count as well?
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.
I mean, I do have RGB lights but it’s not because I’m a software engineer. I’m just a dork.
I specifically built my computer to have as much RGB as possible. Also because I’m a dork.
I am a software engineer and I also have a PC with RGB vomit. But not because I’m a software engineer. Because I’m also a dork, and the icy blue color keeps my cpu cold.
I switch to red when I’m gaming for the extra power.
FOUND EM ORKY BOYZ!!!
Dey sed POWAH, naht SPEED
KOMPUTER POWA IZ TO GO FASTA! ZOGGIN GROTZ TRYIN TO TINK…
My computer is lit up orange except for the cpu cooler. Those lights are set to blue for better cooling
It makes sense to target your colors for granular performance increases in different areas.
Lol thank you for making that, I had that meme in mind while I was writing that reply.
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When forced to have rgb components… I disabled them. If nothing else it’s yet another point of failure and extra waste heat.
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.
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!
How bright were those LEDs?
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. 🤦
If it’s actually controllable, and not just hardwired on, openrgb is your friend.
If I already don’t give a shit, why would I bother?
Because it seems like you disliked them and “off” is one of the controllable options?
But I guess you are at a so advanced level of not giving a shit that you don’t even care that they dance around.Not only is the box under my desk with the window facing the wall, you are correct, I wouldn’t give a shit if it weren’t. I was simply noting the irony of my “professional” equipment being the most frivolous.
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.
It’s an interesting question, but realistically inconsequential.
Do you mean that you think bit flips are inconsequential, or that the rate of bit flips is inconsequential?
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.
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.
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.
Where’s your ECC?
I have a Dell laptop. That probably explains why I’m such a shitty programmer.
This checks out.
I’m not a SWE ( though kinda code monkey anyways) and it’s 2 monitors no rbg (just all black thinkpad, keyboard backlight disabled)
don’t even have one of em glass windows on my pc and happy with it
But do you have a rainbow keyboard?
only caus I got it for free, I turn the lights off tho
I turned off the lights except for when I type. It’s super subtle. It’s practically the same! but I still identify as RGB all the way!
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.
Mate get yourself a second one, you’ll never go back
Well of course, my screens are in front of me.
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
Software engineer with smol pp
They don’t get it, RGB equals performance!
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.
Blue makes it run cooler. smh people these days don’t know anything about computer
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.
