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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ericah Bachman isa fat and stupid.
Came here to mention this
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.
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
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
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I have a rainbow computer with only one monitor. Am I not a software engineer?
34 inch ultrawide 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
I don’t know how to make my RAM be not a rainbow and I’m too lazy to look it up
I got a bunch of rgb in order to set it all to purple on my desktop. But then I started using Linux full time on it so I lost the windows rgb software, and was too lazy to fix it. So it went from looking amazing to this ugly clashing thing for the last 3 years I used the system as each part eventually reverted to its demo mode.
OpenRGB might be able to help you change the colors if that’s something you’re interested in fixing nowadays.
I don’t use the system anymore but at the time the parts I had weren’t supported.
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.
just wait until you rice your distro, then you become a middle aged father who lusts after vintage cars.
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
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.
And brown poop fans
Look, if Noctua is going to charge me 10 whole dollars extra for the exact same fan in black, I’m getting the poop brown.
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.
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.
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
Most GPU’s don’t even come without blinking lights anymore.
Potty mouth.
What’s the point of RGB lights on computers? Does it somehow increase performance or something?
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.
Don’t want them sticking their finger in the fans though 😄
Anti Commercial AI thingy
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.
Interesting 🤔 More material has to be used for the LEDs, so I don’t understand why it’s cheaper.
Anti Commercial AI thingy
If it’s Corsair then they probably want to incentivize you installing their malware.
My LED ones were Corsair too, and non LED alternatives were lesser known brands.
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.
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
Ah, I see. Thanks for taking the time to explain!
The spoiler could be handy if people keep asking you questions like I did.
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.
Flashing RGB light are legit the most annoying shit ever. I just have a black box for a case and my peripherals glow a dim solid color (so I can see them in the dark) if at all.
Nobody puts their RGB into flashing rainbow except for displays in shops.
Who only do it to show what kinds of colours you can choose.
It is so you can match the colour of every part to whatever you like. Without the manufacturer having to determine colours beforehand.
Oh you sweet summer child.
gestures at my entire uni classroom, in which nearly all the people I know have RGB peripherals and computers at home
I largely mean flashing in general, it’s all just distracting to me. Also most people I know personally actually like the rainbow madness. Even if they try to match their keyboard and mouse, they’ll still often have a unicorn box. They also love putting their rainbow tower on top of the table, I really don’t get it. A friend’s uncle even has a case the height of a table, like bro… Is there no end to this?
People absolutely “do”. Mostly because they cannot be bothered to change the default setting or because they are teenagers and actually like it
One monitor connected to a thinkpad, mechanical computer from early 2000s, it’s software engineering time.
I do have 2 monitors. But I have an opaque side panel. Case closed. Pun intended.
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.
