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.
I am a software engineer and I also have a PC with RGB vomit. But not because I’m a software engineer. Because I’m also a dork, and the icy blue color keeps my cpu cold.
Yeah, as a software engineer I have 3 monitors if you include the one built into my laptop
Why not? The last decade before semi-retirement I had all the different ways to get in touch with me restricted to my phone. My work computer had no email client, no messengers, nothing. I even helped lead the charge to eliminate desk phones.
That little display may have been the single greatest priductivity booster ever. It stayed on a shelf across the room on do not disturb. The only people allowed past the DnD were my wife and my son. If there really was a work emergency, a manager or coworker knew where to find me to tap me on the shoulder.
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.
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.
Hah, jokes on you, I have an ultra wide.
Which is basically two monitors without any separator in the middle.
34” 5k2k ultrawide as main monitor and a 27” 4k in portrait for documentation.
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.
Only 2 monitors? Them be rookie numbers, need to get them up
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.
I think I started on a single 640x480 CRT. Professionally. My actual first computer was 320x200. Now I’m on dual UHD + laptop screen.