this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2023
155 points (94.8% liked)

Technology

59427 readers
3441 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
L3s@fry.gs
L4s@fry.gs
L4s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
155
This is a rant about ASUS and their RGB lighting software (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by Crackhappy@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
25 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wasn't able to get that to place nice with all my RGB garbage. Really great idea though. Wish manufacturers would just lean into it.

[–] nicman24@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it quite easy to add new hw if you got any programming experience

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Define "quite easy?" I'd gladly contribute if it's straight forward, but I'm personally not really interested in learning how to reverse engineering hw vendor shitware or learning i2c communications in C++.

[–] nicman24@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

nah most things are i2c based and there is nifty sniffer on their wiki. even with just dumps of your device and its native software, you can help

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

I'll take a look, thanks for the tip.