Three monitors, and i feel insulted

That's a gamer, not a software engineer

When forced to have rgb components.. I disabled them. If nothing else it's yet another point of failure and extra waste heat.

Hah, jokes on you, I have an ultra wide.

Which is basically two monitors without any separator in the middle.

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.

Only 2 monitors? Them be rookie numbers, need to get them up

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. 🤦

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.

I think I'm up to 5 spread across two different workstations, but no rgb that shits annoying to me.

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

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.

Wtf is a rainbow computer?

Monitors – hell yes! RGB – can't stand it. My keyborad has a plain white backlight and that's it. It's purely functional.

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.

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

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.

Ericah Bachman isa fat and stupid.

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?

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

RGB is overrated

I only have one monitor... It's an ultra wide.

They don't get it, RGB equals performance!

We are just carrying on the tradition of das blinkenlights

The watermark over the watermark on this...for that extra shitposty goodness.

don't even have one of em glass windows on my pc and happy with it

I have a Dell laptop. That probably explains why I'm such a shitty programmer.

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

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)

I just had to uproot and move several states away with my life in a luggage and a backpack <.< No fitting the monitors in there :(

Still got my glowy keebs though ;P

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)

Two headsets ago I bought a G933 from Logitech, mainly because it had an AUX input on the USB-dongle which I thought was pretty neat, but that one had big unnecessary RBG strips on the sides of the earpiece. The most ridiculous usage of RGB I had seen till date. But I programmed an interface between CSGO and the RGB on the headset to indicate my health so the people watching from behind us at a lan could see it.

Anyway, I've always preferred white LED's and RGB can rarely replicate pure white.

What's the point of RGB lights on computers? Does it somehow increase performance or something?

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Idk man, I just like electromagnetic waves

When I moved from the office to home I changed to a single monitor... And I have never missed the other one. I mean, I'm not a software engineer, so YMMV.