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Came up with this late at night. Not while being anywhere near a laptop though.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I would genuinely pay more if I could get high quality hardware that wasn't infected with rainbow RGB nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Most RGB peripherals I've owned I was able to toggle completely off.

I'm also not an RGB enjoyer, I usually just set it all to the same static color, on the lowest dimness.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I'm a soft, light lavender RGB on white peripherals kind of guy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Lavender is nice too!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Purple here for a while now. Maybe it's time for a change.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yes, you can turn them all off...

...if you install 3 different resource-hogging, data-harvesting RGB lighting control programs on your PC and have them run at startup.

I'm not that pissed off about RGB. But it should be off by default.

White by default would be ok in theory, but in reality they all vary in brightness and colour temperature, so that looks jarring too.

E: lmao ok people, simp for the corporations

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

I don't need rainbow rgb, but a nice, dim, through key white backlight is very valuable on a laptop that's used regularly

[–] GregorGizeh 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Thats silly too. Just turn off the rgb feature. I built a new pc last year, it has plenty of parts that could do the disco lighting but I turned it off on most of them, and opted for a static white glow on the keyboard. Completely fine this way

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

The problem is that each part manufacturer wants you to install their shitty RGB control software that is often bizarrely resource-hogging, and sometimes even used for data gathering.

On laptops, some RGB control software can eat your battery away by a fair bit because the CPU never goes into a lower power state.

RBG should A) all conform to a standardised open API, and B) be off by default.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ditto. Unfortunately the grown up stuff is either worse quality business class hardware or ridiculously expensive boutique stuff. If you're just looking for a case though, Phanteks makes great, mature builds

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Is "business class" just a simile here? Because normally, the hardware sold to businesses is of a better quality (albeit also expensive).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Maybe I'm just making a wrong differentiation between what I'd call business class and what I'd call enterprise class. In my comment, I was specifically picturing those garbage soft click keyboards that ship with Dell, HP, etc. Desktops

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Ah right, yeah, those are crap. I really don't get why companies are willing to cheap out specifically with keyboards.
Like, it's the tool your workers use all day. Even if they just type 5% faster on a proper keyboard, that pays for itself in no time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago