The End of RGB

Oh yeah, another rant, well sort of. Last year in November, after numerous attempts at getting my HP computer to run quieter and cooler (Not possible at the same time) I decided to make a change. I'm old and grumpy and I decided a few years back that if something wasn't working the way I liked, it should be changed. So, I ordered a new computer case and as HP stuff doesn't work in something generic, a new motherboard and power supply.

Now I wasn't particular about RGB or it's use, nor that familiar, I ordered a Corsair case that uses iCUE to control the case RGB and an MSI motherboard that uses mystic light to control it's RGB. While I may have ordered the case thinking "Yeah, I bet the RGB fans will look pretty cool," the bottom line was I wanted a good airflow case at a good price. Same with the motherboard, not being aware that there are many different RGB setups "out there". The power supply was also a good price (More on that on another day) and didn't have RGB as it fits inside a shroud, rendering RGB pointless.

So, I assembled my computer with my new parts, as well as those salvaged from my poor HP computer (CPU, ram, video card and NVMe drive) and turned it on. The system posted (Yah!) and booted into Windows (Yah!) but no RGB. My computer stayed unresponsively dark. No matter, a bit of Googling later and I downloaded the software for both my case and motherboard. AS I had and still have nothing else with RGB, I was all set.

I installed iCUE (OMG, what hell is this? It's so bright! And purdy! I think?) So I discovered I could have different presets up as long as iCUE was running but different and not as nice a setup when "off". On with the Mystic Light setup. I was not impressed, this gives the user such a poor selection over iCUE and eventually I ended up with some sort of rainbow effect on both. This lasted for about an hour until it drove me crazy and I set it to static white (Which is really a sort of blue).

Over the past months, I've been playing with different settings, never quite satisfied until finally last night (Aug 30,22). I gave it one last go and found it was causing issues with performance and even though it had such a small footprint, I gave it the heave ho. My RGB is finally in sync and all it took was to turn it all off. Now iCUE and Mystic Light live in RGB heaven, in perfect harmony and I have completely purged all RGB software and will eventually remove the lighting Node core and perhaps replace the fans with quieter Arctic air 140 mm non RGB fans in the front and Arctic air 120 mm non RGB fan in the rear and possibly top. Ahhh, darkness.

More Issues

 One of the most unreliable pieces of crapware is the Bing Desktop Wallpaper Manager. While having a new desktop to look forward to sometime during the day, even with the ugly Bing watermark, this piece of crap crashed or failed to respond at least once on any given day. I was going to give it a week to straighten out gut yesterday, I'd had enough and it ended up in the trash. There are tons of programs out there that do the same thing, I mean manage desktop wallpaper without the incessant crashes and to be honest, all I need to do is do a search and come up with tons of images I can use and find a new one everyday without relying on a program to do so. Short rant today as I am hungry so bye for now.

Reliability History

 Joke of the day: If Reliability History is supposed to show how reliable my computer is, why is it that all the errors point to Windows 11 errors? 99 percent of the errors are related to something in Windows that f**ked up during the normal course of operations and the last percent is because of other software f**king up due to poor coding. That, to me, does not indicate a problem with my computer, that points to a problem with piss poor coding.

One of the biggest issues is with a piece of crapware called StiSvc which is used to connect to scanners and cameras. I rarely do either but there are days when this registers an error causing my computer's reliability index to drop ten percent. Why this should be gauged as a computer reliability issue and not a Windows reliability issue is beyond me. It can't even be considered user error as this user did nothing to cause it to f**k up.

Trying to solve this issue is another matter. According to the "experts" that troll the MS help pages, one should run SFC and a host of other nonsenseware that doesn't find any problems but you should run it because Windows tends to go for a shit after running for so many months. Maybe they meant minutes because this has happened shortly after a fresh install. Well, we all know that MS likes to point the finger outward indicating that there's a problem with the hardware or the user and never looking inward to see that they f**ked up.

Oh Well, more fodder for the bishing .

Too Hot or Just Toasty

 So, I have a personal issue (I probably have more than one but lets just talk about this one particular one today) where I am concerned about the heat being generated by my computer. Let's face it, 82 degrees Celsius is almost hot enough to boil water with and that's what my GPU runs at when I play "The Forest". I run it at medium, because that is what it was set at when I first installed it. I suppose I could run it at a lower resolution and at lower settings to get the temperature down but I am a visually obsessed with getting the best visual experience possible. I have other games that barely hit 50 C but this one and "Planet Crafter" both tend to turn my PC into a portable heater. I have a feeling it's something in the game engine but I get upset knowing that the computer runs this hot when playing those two games,

I was running MSI Afterburner to down volt my video card but that caused major issues. So I uninstalled it and I am back on Adrenalin. High temperatures really concern me but so does a fan screaming at 100%. I'm just gonna let Adrenalin control everything and if the card blows up, it will give me an excuse to get a new RTX nVidia card.

I played around with fan curves and video card settings but I give up. Different case fan speeds made no difference so I set fan voltage to five volts and that makes my computer quiet at idle at least. As far as the high gaming temps well, I will just deal with it for now. If it wasn't good, I am sure that the card would show signs of throttling. Once winter comes, it won't be as much of an issue and I will probably appreciate the extra heat. Just saying....

Life In A Parking Lot

 So, if your social life revolves around the time and things you do in a parking lot, do you really have a social life? I mean you have to admit, if somebody asks what you did on the weekend and you reply with, "Yeah, I hung out in the local parking lot and me and my friends argued about stuff, we drank some really bad but cheap beer, and listened to bad but really loud music and then we had to leave cause somebody called the cops cause we made too much noise yelling and screaming at each other, to be heard over the really bad, loud music," I think you might have a problem, especially if this is your response every weekend.

It's sad really but this seems to be some peoples' idea of a fun weekend. Hanging around in a parking lot until security chases you out for anti-social behaviour.

"Hey grandpa, what did you do when you was a kid?"

"I hung around with my other loser friends in a parking lot."

"Is that all you ever did?"

"Pretty much."

I think it might be less embarrassing to say you didn't do anything on the weekend. A whole lot of time spent doing nothing. What fun! Okay, seeing as it's quiet out again and the morons have left the parking lot, maybe I can get some sleep now.

Karma?

 I just got a notice from Reddit that I had a message removed because I don't have enough Karma to post a message. Apparently you have to post messages to get karma and if you don't post you don't get karma. Huh? WTF? Ok, this makes absolutely no sense at all. You need to post to get karma but if you don't have enough karma your post gets removed and you don't get karma? Did Reddit hire an idiot to make up this rule? 

BTW, I am not upset that my post got removed, I hardly ever post on Reddit because quite frankly I think the site is full of too many whiners, no doubt all full of lots of karma because of their whining. I only posted to give somebody some information about an issue they were trying to solve. Well, good luck with that because if the whiners don't have the same info, nobody is gonna learn anything new.

Am I gonna ever post anything more on Reddit? Apparently not, not that I really care, I only post here when I am bored or encounter stupidity. I should have lots of karma here, and obviously the people at Reddit have no clue what karma really is and that karma is gonna eventually bite them in the ass. What happens when all the whiners stop whining and they wonder why they have no new members, and btw, I am not a new member but I feel treated like one.

Oh well, it gave me a reason to post here, not that anyone cares or reads this crap either but it made for something to write about. Oh yeah speaking of writing, one day I will start posting my story, if I can ever get past the first page. That's probably a good thing, if I find the story I am writing boring, I am sure that anyone reading the story will be bored too. I've read too many boring books in the past and no worries, I will never publish a boring book. I have enough boring crap on this site. I rest my case.

Fickle as F...

 If anyone is actually reading or following my blog, which I doubt, you know that I can change my mind on the drop of a hat. Go ahead, drop your hat and see what happens. Regardless, I decided after a really nightmare session screwing around with Lutris (google it) and trying to get The Sims 4 to work with Manjaro, I changed OS to Windows 10 again because at least I can get the games I want to work without spending all my time trying to get it to work.

Oh, I can get the Sims game to work but that's as far as I could get, a reboot resulted in Lutris going for a s**t and having to download all the game files again. I said it before and I'm saying it again, if you want to play games designed for Windows, then just use Windows, and the same goes for games designed for Linux, if you like to play games designed for Linux, then use Linux.

TO me, its pretty obvious what the F up is, with lutris, you have your Origin folder and then you have your users, and inside there is your c: drive. WTF, no wonder origin says you don't have the game installed. Anyways, its all good, if you want to waste some time screwing about, go for it but I don't really care, it was an exercise in futility and I am over it now, it's not like I don't have legal copies of Windows, so goodbye Manjaro and Linux in general and back to Windows. This is why I have an old F around with cause it don't matter computer in the first place. Ok, enough for now, lets go play!