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pls, how do I change this

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[-] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 54 points 2 years ago

Republic of Gamers < Democratic People's Republic of Gamers

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

Union of Gamer Socialist Republics.

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 52 points 2 years ago

It's retribution for buying motherboard from the freeze-gamer republic

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 37 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Apparently you might be able to

Pop BIOS when booting, the go to the Boot tab, look for boot logo display; it should have 3 settings, auto, full screen, and disabled

[-] dditty@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

Yup this will fix it no problemo - I also have an ASUS ROG mobo.

There's also HackBGRT which allows you to set whatever custom boot logo you want; u just have to redo it after every Windows update

[-] Sunforged@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Holy shit thank you so much!

[-] AlicePraxis@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago

Years ago I was looking into gaming laptops and all of the ASUS ones said PREDATOR in massive gamer-font letters. I'd be utterly embarrassed to be seen in public with that.

It's still hard to find laptops with a good GPU without the cringe-ass gamer aesthetic. Like for fuck's sake I'm not even a gamer, I wanted one for CG rendering.

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

Announcing to everyone at the library that I'm a predator because I'm a cool gamer

[-] wopazoo@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

It's still hard to find laptops with a good GPU without the cringe-ass gamer aesthetic. Like for fuck's sake I'm not even a gamer, I wanted one for CG rendering.

Have you looked at the Framework 16? It's a fully upgradable and repairable laptop that can come with an AMD Radeon RX 7700S and doesn't have any gamer branding. The issue is that it costs more than competing products, but all its competitors are gamer branded.

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[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 31 points 2 years ago

Imagine being a gamer I say as I sit in my gamer chair with my gamer headphones and all my RGB shit everywhere

[-] raven@hexbear.net 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

RGB shit everywhere

Does anyone even like them? Looks like a tacky Christmas tree to me. owl-pissed

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago

I love mine yeah. It's childish and ridiculous and honestly that's why I love it. Those of us millennials who grew up in backwards repressed households gotta enjoy our childhood as adults instead. Covering my entire living space with ridiculous lights is one of those ways I live today for the child that barely survived it then.

[-] raven@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago

Oof I didn't mean to denigrate that for you. You certainly shouldn't feel bad about that rat-salute-2

Personally, I wish they would just include an off switch.

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

Oh you didn't, I'm happy with who I am. RGB lights are stupid as fuck and not for everyone, they are just for my particular brand of stupid Care-Comrade

[-] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

all do digitally, some do physically.

and it should theoretically be simple to make a physical switch off the adressable header if you wanted a physical switch.

[-] raven@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I haven't found that to be true of cheap mice and keyboards, or I have to do a certain key combo every time it loses power. I usually end up desoldering the LEDs, but sometimes that makes it stop working so I have to resolder them and put tape around them.

[-] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 years ago

for keyboards and mice, that would depend if it came with software, if it did, it probably has an off setting (e. g my old redragon mouse did, and that was like a 12$ mouse like in idk 2016?) keyboard definetely would be hard if it was a really dirt cheap keyboard.

[-] ProfessorAdonisCnut@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

They can be any colour rather than every colour

[-] Sinistar@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

I hate it. I've got one thing on my desk that changes color and it's my trackball, everything else is just a white backlight or a green status light.

[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

Glowing lettering makes it easier to pick out an obscure symbol you barely use on your keyboard

[-] Jenniferrr@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

I have a small amount of rgb and it's cool

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

I like rgb on my keyboards because I play in the dark and being able to see my keys is actually functional.

[-] RedQuestionAsker2@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

I hate RGB crap and find it annoying that it's basically mandatory

[-] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 30 points 2 years ago

My brother in christ, you bought the Asus ROG motherboard.

[-] oktherebuddy@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

I futzed around in the fancy BIOS a couple times and tried using their recommended CPU overclocking profile and upon boot my computer crashed so hard that it refused to boot again for like ten minutes

[-] blight@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago
[-] oktherebuddy@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[-] jack@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago

i officially declare the People's Republic of Gamers

[-] SupFBI@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago
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[-] skeletorsass@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

This name is a reference to the Republic Of China (ROC) because ASUS brand is from Taiwan province.

[-] chickentendrils@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's doable, but might not be feasible. ASUS used to offer a utility, MyLogo, which updated BIOS ROMs for their motherboards with a user-selected image file. Unless they or some hobbyist offer an equivalent... Maybe enabling fast boot will hide the splash screen?

If nobody's documented the procedures though, you'd end up dumping the BIOS, probably end up using flasher hardware to update if they've made the update process more locked down (digital signatures and whatnot).

[-] jaeme@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think there is a way to turn off the animation somewhat, a member of my family also has the cringe OEM splash screen and they were able to disable the animation and the sound.

Of course, if you can afford a Republic of Gamers computer then you can definitely afford a System76 machine or a Framework which have very not cringe coreboot BIOS. Those machines + something like universal blue will get you the least cringe operating system in the world.

[-] good_girl@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

Oooh these are neat. Definitely going this route whenever I can afford to upgrade.

[-] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

it should be a dictatorship of the gaming proletariat

[-] Owl@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

Why not Worker's Council Of Gamers?

[-] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

United Soviet Socialist Gamer Republics

[-] leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl 12 points 2 years ago

I have to agree it only caters to a specific age range and then quickly falls to cringevalley.

It may be the same for you, but I got rid of my laptop's bios logo by updating it with a white-gloved version of the bios. if luck is on your side, the mobo used there would use one of ami, phoenix or american megatrends bios kits.

also disclaimer since bios updates can brick things.

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

lmao

This is funny and I can totally understand it. I just actively avoid the cringe over branded gamer shit.

[-] Torenico@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

Why a Republic though? Is it Federal or Unitary?

[-] ComradePupIvy@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 years ago

After knowing gamers, Confederal.

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

When i am being cringe i simply do not boot my pc

[-] Gosplan14_the_Third@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

Yet you're let into the country without a VISA... hmm...

[-] OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 years ago

The old ASUS motherboards used to let you pick your own image when you used the firmware update utility to flash new firmware. Not sure if that is still a thing...

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[-] M68040@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

my old i7-4790k build had a gigabyte motherboard that'd tell me to INSIST ON ULTRA DURABLE at every boot. Pure comedy

[-] oktherebuddy@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

I'm still running that exact processor lol 10 years old and still chugging along

[-] M68040@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

Held up as well as the Q6600 it replaced did

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