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[–] 4 points 1 year ago*

Oh hey, the 3d pipe maze, haven't seen that one in a long time

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    brainrot, thats whats coming

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    [–] 133 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Whoa...I just did the same thing, and when I came back, my computer looked like this. A billion years of evolution in the blink of an eye

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  • [–] 80 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    My computer started playing Doom by itself.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I always found it stressful because there's no way out. Just endless wandering.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Why did you watch it that long?!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Back before I discovered Linux, I still had a bunch of computers in my room. Since I hadn't yet discovered Linux, I had a bunch of Windows computers. Therefore I saw a lot of classic screensavers all the time (and also my room was very warm).

    Moreso than that, though, one need only understand the concept of a screensaver and maybe watch a few minutes of this to intuit that there is no end and never will be.

    I liked the pipe one. It cleaned itself up periodically and, since there was no character on display - either via first person perspective or seeing someone build pipes - no one was desperate or trapped. However, the starfield was always my favorite. It spoke of adventure. The idea of having an occupiable spaceship was enough of an idea of home to not stress me out.

    I also had one that came on the Duke Nukem 3d CD (though it didn't come on mine, I had to email and ask). It depicted Duke's enemies rather messily falling from the sky until they filled up the screen. When I learned that was a thing I was of the perfect age to appreciate it.

    Nowadays I just use the power management settings. No screen saver.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    This was back before the Internet was not a big truck, but a series of tubes.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    That's why I use flying toasters instead.

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    Honestly the thing I miss most about the latest Linux distributions. I understand screensavers aren’t necessary anymore, but they are fun and should still be a thing.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I miss the old windows colored bubbles, where your screen was still visible and the bubbles just moved around on top of everything.

    I think it was from 7. In 10 they changed it so there was a black screen with the bubbles. Not nearly as much fun (I do zero secure things on my home computers). They also seemed to churn more, like glass balls, rather than bouncing off each other like they originally did.

    I’m not on windows anymore but man I do miss that one.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    They are very much still kinda necessary. They prevent burn-in, which is still a possible issue on certain types of displays (like OLEDs).

    Then again, even back in the hay day of screensavers you could have simply turned the monitor off and left the PC on. 🤷‍♂️

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    As I understand it, for the burn-in you can just turn the display off. It was not always that way because old CRT monitors take a while to turn back on so it was annoying.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    My modern LCD takes eons longer to turn on than any of the CRTs I've used.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I think only ChromeOS' Exo and KDE's KWin (cheating, since its just the kde screen locker) are the only wayland compositors with screensaving functionality. Which is just a picture slideshow.

    Seems like no devs want to reimplement screensavers that are not just pictures.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    For the newer people in the crowd: A screen protector is part of the immune system for electronic displays.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    We always called them screensavers, but at some point after screensavers were no longer really necessary, people started calling backgrounds screensavers. I don't know why I let it bother me so much.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It's just a graphical representation of The Internet (a series of tubes).

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I miss screen savers sometimes.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Any chance getting a link to install this on xfce or kde ?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    It's a 30 year old screen saver.

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