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This is a rant about ASUS and their RGB lighting software (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Great piece of code

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh lol, I thought I recognized the username. Nice work on OpenRGB! I used it for a couple years, but now my desktop has since been converted into a server chassis, so I've killed off all of the lighting.

Still runs great on my girlfriend's desktop though!

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

I'm a total OpenRGB noob and just wanted to know of there's an easy way from Linux to detect the number of LEDs in a device? I only recently wiped my Win11 install and Synapse would tell me how many each had, but I'm struggling at guessing in OpenRGB.

Also, is it possible to edit the colors used in the spectrum effect?

Thanks for the work you've put into this, I completely agree that all these systems are garbage, and in so over their bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Just start at 1, set color, keep incrementing until the last LED in the string doesn't control anything