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  • aStonedSanta@lemm.eeEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Yeah. I just think being RgB it would be good at purple 😂 One of those situations where the name was probably not created based on logic lol

    • Alto@kbin.social
      2·
      9 months ago

      It’s called RGB because there’s a red, green, and blue diode. Not sure how that’s not a logical name.

      • aStonedSanta@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        Oh I was making a joke cause it sucks at purple. Which is red and blue combined generally. But that’s not really how the RGB color cycle works as far as I understand in some extremely cursory Wikipedia reading lol

        • Alto@kbin.social
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          9 months ago

          IIRC, it has something to do with the fact that purple sort of doesn’t actually exist. As I understand, purple is basically your brain going “idk wtf it is but it’s not green”