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Wtf is a rainbow computer?
RGB bro
Can they just call it what it is? RGB
I gave you an upvote because I came to ask the same thing.
We’ve wandered into a bad neighborhood…
check out pcmasterrace, people throw a bunch of colored lights on their custom computers…
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 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
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.
Bring back beige boxes!
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.
just wait until you rice your distro, then you become a middle aged father who lusts after vintage cars.
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.
Hah, jokes on you, I have an ultra wide.
Which is basically two monitors without any separator in the middle.
once you go two ultrawides you will enter a new realm of existence.
Side by side or stacked on top?
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.
Six vertical ultrawides is the only way.
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.
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.
I think I’m up to 5 spread across two different workstations, but no rgb that shits annoying to me.
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.
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.
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.
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Software engineer with smol pp
Please don’t share such secrets in a public forum.
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.
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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?
RGB is overrated
Useless RGB is overrated. I color coded my keyboard and it’s unbelievably helpful, especially for altered keys (ie: media keys/macro keys).
I only have one monitor… It’s an ultra wide.
🤮
how does it feel to be wrong!!!
I upvoted both of you :)
Did you iron out all your question marks?
Yes i like to keep tidy ty for noticing :>
I do have 2 monitors. But I have an opaque side panel. Case closed. Pun intended.
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?
My RAM goes back to unicorn puke each time I turn my computer on.
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.
Huge fan of the non-TG Fractal Design R series cases for your use case. Pretty, but minimalistic. Airflow might be a bit of an issue given that they’re noise focused cases.
I have the Define R5 right now and it’s mostly good, but it’s choking a bit. I was thinking of getting a Torrent because of the airflow. Even with the TG I think it looks good, could be useful for shoving an info display or a clock inside, moreover a solid side panel doesn’t make as much sense when it’s not dampened (and this is an airflow-focused case).
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.
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.)
Ericah Bachman isa fat and stupid.
Came here to mention this
