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angry_keebler
Jul 16, 2006

In His presence the mountains quake and the hills melt away; the earth trembles and its people are destroyed. Who can stand before His fierce anger?
sitting in quiet contemplation, sipping a steaming cup of tea and reflecting on fulfilling our fundamental needs

wholesome food, comfortable shelter? obvious

silent meditation increasing our mindfulness of the present? a given

but little blinking lights? no, those we can do without

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Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

angry_keebler
Jul 16, 2006

In His presence the mountains quake and the hills melt away; the earth trembles and its people are destroyed. Who can stand before His fierce anger?

the only requirement to join the exasperated by glowing lights crew is to basically be remo williams but in real life

except instead of fighting the corrupt military industrial complex you put little squares of tape or nail polish over unnecessary leds on your personal electronics or coffee pot or whatever

GameCube
Nov 21, 2006

i'm firmly in the Comforted camp, OP. i can't even understand what you're trying to say, it makes no sense to me.

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

I replace all colored LEDs on my consumer electronics with red ones wherever possible. I have a poo poo load of through hole and surface mount red diodes for just this purpose. Red still gives you the utility of the indicator light, but it doesn't gently caress up your vision.

PuTTY riot
Nov 16, 2002

same but blue

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

Green LEDs indicate 1000GbE whereas amber LEDs indicate 100MbE or even 10MbE

Green is better than amber, and this applies to the POS as well

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003
When I was a teen, I wanted flashing LEDs everywhere. I dreamed of an eternally blinking perpetual dusk where the pseudo lockstep of near laser light cast pale shadows on me and all of mine.

Now, as an old man, I yearn for the darkness. I seek the peace that was once my nemesis. These blinking LEDs haunt me, glowing specters of my past. I cannot extinguish them, they have become more me than the blood pumping through my necrotizing body.

Cat Face Joe
Feb 20, 2005

goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes



angry_keebler posted:

the only requirement to join the exasperated by glowing lights crew is to basically be remo williams but in real life

except instead of fighting the corrupt military industrial complex you put little squares of tape or nail polish over unnecessary leds on your personal electronics or coffee pot or whatever

i am the earthly manifestation of shiva but for covering up glowing lights

Clockwerk
Apr 6, 2005


the predictable hue of gallium nitride is all that shelters me
while far-away children slowly poison themselves
picking apart my entrails

Cat Face Joe
Feb 20, 2005

goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes



i catch the glow of a light like a bullet and hurl it back, extinguishing it forever

Cat Face Joe
Feb 20, 2005

goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes



i reside in a village in nk on the side of a cliff and only there can i truly escape the sickening glow

Cat Face Joe
Feb 20, 2005

goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes



need a light turned off? i can help but only in exchange for a mountain of gold bullion

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

Cat Face Joe posted:

i catch the glow of a light like a bullet and hurl it back, extinguishing it forever

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

Captain Foo posted:

Green LEDs indicate 1000GbE whereas amber LEDs indicate 100MbE or even 10MbE

Green is better than amber, and this applies to the POS as well

holy smokes, 1000 gbe

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

Just Keep Cool-idge
why do computer cases still come with hdd activity lights

like what's the loving point? my macbook doesn't need a hdd indicator

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

Bloody posted:

holy smokes, 1000 gbe

fatty pipes

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



[ASK] me about OS/2 Warp

Phoenixan posted:

why do computer cases still come with hdd activity lights

like what's the loving point? my macbook doesn't need a hdd indicator

if it runs windows, it doubles as room illumination

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

Phoenixan posted:

why do computer cases still come with hdd activity lights

like what's the loving point? my macbook doesn't need a hdd indicator

i sometimes wish my laptop had a disk access light just so i could know whether it was trying to load a bunch of data or just hanging.

Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice
I use Menu Meters on OSX to see the status of my computer. It's like rainmeter but in my menu bar and I really like it.



Apparently El Capitan breaks it though.

pram
Jun 10, 2001

Stereotype posted:

I use Menu Meters on OSX to see the status of my computer. It's like rainmeter but in my menu bar and I really like it.



Apparently El Capitan breaks it though.

fail

Valeyard
Mar 30, 2012


Grimey Drawer

Phoenixan posted:

why do computer cases still come with hdd activity lights

like what's the loving point? my macbook doesn't need a hdd indicator

Dunno, mine doesent have them. Get a good laptop

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts

Stereotype posted:

I use Menu Meters on OSX to see the status of my computer. It's like rainmeter but in my menu bar and I really like it.



Apparently El Capitan breaks it though.

it's okay friend http://member.ipmu.jp/yuji.tachikawa/MenuMetersElCapitan/

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts
but lol @ having colored icons in yr menubar for real

suffix
Jul 27, 2013

Wheeee!
i hate those distracting flashing red buttons so i always carry electrical tape to make improvised pasties

NoneMoreNegative
Jul 20, 2000
GOTH FASCISTIC
PAIN
MASTER




shit wizard dad

suffix posted:

i hate those distracting flashing red buttons so i always carry electrical tape to make improvised pasties

tape Xs over your LEDs, a SuicideGirls computer :o:

Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice

oh sweet! Bookmarked for when I do eventually update because something won't work without it. I'm happy he wrote an explanation too, looks like El Capitan is like 95% a security update, I keep reading more and more things they changed in that regard.

However they really should fix that command-drag thing for user taskbar objects, I am trying it right now and golly, I might get annoyed if those little meters are in the wrong place.

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
I would pay a premium for a computer with absolutely no lights whatsoever.

NoneMoreNegative
Jul 20, 2000
GOTH FASCISTIC
PAIN
MASTER




shit wizard dad

Larry Parrish posted:

I would pay a premium for a computer with absolutely no lights whatsoever.

PayPal me ten dollars, then unplug your computer from the wall.

Satellit3
Oct 21, 2008

Sagebrush posted:

i sometimes wish my laptop had a disk access light just so i could know whether it was trying to load a bunch of data or just hanging.

yea this is the one nice thing

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

windows never hangs so i never have to wonder

GameCube
Nov 21, 2006

Stereotype posted:

I use Menu Meters on OSX to see the status of my computer. It's like rainmeter but in my menu bar and I really like it.



Apparently El Capitan breaks it though.

istat menus superiority.

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

Bloody posted:

windows never hangs so i never have to wonder

yeah it just bluescreens and automatically reboots

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

NoneMoreNegative posted:

PayPal me ten dollars, then unplug your computer from the wall.

:grin:

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

Captain Foo posted:

yeah it just bluescreens and automatically reboots

i havent seen a bsod (outside of when i was writing my own usb drivers) in like a decade

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



[ASK] me about OS/2 Warp

or you can do it right and render it straight on your desktop with Coffeescript

http://tracesof.net/uebersicht/

Space-Pope
Aug 13, 2003

by zen death robot

Larry Parrish posted:

I would pay a premium for a computer with absolutely no lights whatsoever.

i would pay a premium for you to shut the gently caress up you insane retard

BONGHITZ
Jan 1, 1970

Space-Pope posted:

i would pay a premium for you to shut the gently caress up you insane retard

dang, harsh

you know you dont have to plug the lights into the motherboard right?

Space-Pope
Aug 13, 2003

by zen death robot

BONGHITZ posted:

dang, harsh
there's only one way to deal with pedo zone posters

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

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Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

Bloody posted:

i havent seen a bsod (outside of when i was writing my own usb drivers) in like a decade

i've seen em a number of times at school because someone a couple years ago utterly hosed up the image that all the department computers use, and some of the machines still haven't been updated

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