Back in the day, I knew what I would get from ASUS and their AURA tech. Pretty simple, just choose what you want and go. My LEDs did what I wanted, it was simple. But no… no they said. Instead we want you to download most of a gig of bullshit to do the same thing, but with extra fucking steps.
I’m pretty sure my light controlling software is now tracking me. I’m not sure if the pattern of my LEDs are watching me or not.
How the shit did we let this come to pass? Why do we let these monstrosities into our life?
I’m part of the problem, I know. I just want my lights to do what I tell them to.
What annoys me about all this LED crap is that I have to download whatever companies shitty software to disable that shit. IMO all lights should be off entirely unless you install a program to switch them on.
But I can definitely agree that the software is also shitty.
RGB software is such garbage. Aura sucks, Synapse sucks, iCue sucks, Polychrome really really really sucks, RGB Fusion sucks, they’re all bloated garbage designed to lock you into an ecosystem and produced by the lowest tier of programmers around apparently as they are unstable and usually incredibly bloated messes.
This nonsense is why I started working on what eventually became OpenRGB.
Great piece of code
I yearn for the day when this lighting fad dies…my case has no plexiglass yet my ram motherboard and video card has lights…I’m surprised Intel doesn’t have LEDs on their processors yet …
You might be waiting a long time because people were already jamming cold cathode tubes into their PCs 25 years ago before LEDs got popular.
Back when Voodoo cards were popular my local computer store was selling acrylic window conversion kits where you’d need a Dremel to install it, with a rubber gasket, cold cathode and driver. In like, 1999. We’ve been doing this for a while.
