Three monitors, and i feel insulted

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.
  
  I specifically built my computer to have as much RGB as possible. Also because I'm a dork.
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- 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.

When forced to have rgb components.. I disabled them. If nothing else it's yet another point of failure and extra waste heat.
- How bright were those LEDs?
- 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.
  
  That was about the only cool feature on my Corsair AIO when the LED still worked. But I don't remember if it was able to go smoothly from one color to another. Might've been.
  Should get a new CLC or an Air Cooler before this one starts leaking I guess, it's the original h100i.
- 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!

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?
- 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 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.)

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.
- 5 here

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. 🤦
- 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.
- 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?

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.
  
  People absolutely "do". Mostly because they cannot be bothered to change the default setting or because they are teenagers and actually like it
  
  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?
  
  I used to have a cheap mechanical keyboard that has side rainbow RGB panels that can't be turned off. I thought that would be turned off when I turn off the backlight. Nope.

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.
- Not a software engineer (network engineer...so I dabble in Python but that's about it).
  Still, my work setup has over 14.5 million pixels spread across 4 displays, and usually another laptop or tablet going as well.
- Yeah I always make it one color or turn the LEDs off completely given the chance.

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
- Most GPU's don't even come without blinking lights anymore.
  
  Potty mouth.
- Can't you just turn it off?
  
  With some proprietary crashware that runs only on Windows drivers and with 7 background services, yes.
  
  My RAM goes back to unicorn puke each time I turn my computer on.

I do have 2 monitors. But I have an opaque side panel. Case closed. Pun intended.

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 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.
- Bring back beige boxes!
  
  I could go for that pale grey which slowly turns yellow, I think the material is called Nintendium
- 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.
- 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.
- just wait until you rice your distro, then you become a middle aged father who lusts after vintage cars.
- 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.
- 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.
  
  Poop fan?

Wtf is a rainbow computer?
- RGB bro
  
  But it's addressable to ROYGBIV bruh! D:
- I gave you an upvote because I came to ask the same thing.
  We've wandered into a bad neighborhood...
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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

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.
- True Neutral

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).

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- Rainbow RAM or rainbow keyboard or anything else. Yes, you qualify.

Ericah Bachman isa fat and stupid.
- Came here to mention this

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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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?

I only have one monitor... It's an ultra wide.
- 🤮
  
  how does it feel to be wrong!!!!

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).

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
  
  Jesus, my friend cycles between mechanical efficiency and sexual orientations like a clown in a stripper juggling show. Now I know why!

We are just carrying on the tradition of das blinkenlights
- I thought that would lead me to a das keyboard.

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
- But do you have a rainbow keyboard?
  
  only caus I got it for free, I turn the lights off tho

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 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?
  
  There's an extra device which is required to control them, yes i already tried the bios.
  Basically yes, rainbow, at least it's not rotating and is just a static rainbow circle.

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

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.

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

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.
- But do you have a rainbow keyboard?
  
  Solid red cause I'm a cheepskate, but my mouse is flies the 🌈
  Also thanks team, downvotes for saying I like having one monitor lmao