Remember screensavers? It's interesting that they just completely died out. Do you know anyone that still uses one?
Not needed since we got rid of shitty crts and upgraded to flat screens
>>107032851What are you talking about? I still use screensavers on my windows 11 install because I hate the screen turning off. I want to know if its asleep or still on. Linux users can't enjoy screensavers because the troons who made Wayland decided that no one uses them and so its better to turn the screen off unless you go back to x11. They died because of the foolish idea that saving electricity saves the environment when some AI data center making anime furry porn pictures for free and crypto mining is sucking down more electricity than every PC being left on with a screensaver ever will.
>>107032898> What is OLED burn in> What is LCD burn in?Wrong
PipesCHADS where we @
>>107032851As neat as they were, they were a waste of power. It's always better to have them shut off after 27 seconds.
>>107032905>saving power is pointless cuz like someone else is like also wasting power!You must get bullied on the short bus a lot.
>>107032851they died about because they are inefficent. burn-in is a meme, just have the screen turn off automatically. There is no real use case for screensavers, I think they were popular mainly because having cool 3d graphics move around was a genuine novelty in the 90s and early 2000s.
>>107032905>>107032851they died because screens turn off themselves through power management since like 25 years.screen*savers* are technically obsolete.
ironically Apple is the only one still keeping the tradition and they still add new screensavers/wallpapers every yearhttps://youtu.be/dVm4QR1PNMA
>>107032914> What is LCD burn in?A meme that doesn't happen to any home users anywhere, maybe to a surveillance room monitor that is on 24/7 with the same image for years. People don't even have to know what burn in is if they have LCD monitors. You "save" more by just turning it off. OLED just brought the burn in meme back from the grave.
Need a crying wojak "NOOO IT'S MORE EFFICIENT TO TURN THE DISPLAY OFF" versus the Chad "haha I'm in a maze" edit.
>>107032851It's starfield for me but if I remember correctly it doesn't spawn over all monitors but just single one.
>>107033023>A meme that doesn't happen to any home usersit's not really burn in but image retention, I have that on my work lcd, windows terminal status bar is burned in but supposedly that's not permanent. Monitor is also super old NEC from 2005 or so. Yes I use 20 years old monitor at work...
>>107032851They didn't just die out. Narrow-minded fools removed them. I need a screensaver for my HTPC because of how audio is routed through my TV.
>>107032946>burn-in is a memeIt's real and affects even LCDs.
Retvrn to xscreensaver.
>>107033027God, the nostalgia I have for this specific screensaver. I loved Maze and Pipes and Flowerbox, but Starfield always brings me back to the days of playing EverQuest with my dad when I was just a kid.
>>107032905Talking complete nonsense. XScreenSaver is alive and well and regularly updated. Linux and macOS, as well as Android (for live wallpapers) and iOS (demos only).Using XScreenSaver for running demos in Wayland is simply a matter of watching HID and dbus events to start/stop the demo. Numerous solutions exist. Only screen locking has yet to be solved.
>>107033023Burn-in absolutely happens on LCDs, even in 2025, but is completely reversible unlike on CRT and OLED. The XScreenSaver distribution includes a demo called "LCDscrub" specifically to remedy this.
>>107032921based
>>107033150>>107033273>xscreensaverjeet virus software
>>107033335xscreensaver predates jeets even having electricity.
>>107033335It's time for another round of chatbot or retard! Can you guess what this poster is?
electricsheepany way to run electricsheep with kde+wayland? chronjob?
>>1070328513D Maze would be cool screensaver on ARM version of Kodi (CoreElec)
>>107032851Apple TV has Snoopy screensavers
>>107033380Bet it all on green, it's a retard using a chatbot to respond!
pepperidge farm remembers
they didn'ti'm running one on my oled that activates after a minute
I haven't tried this yet but it looks good. https://github.com/Pucur/wayland-screensaver
>>107032851They were quirky, but ultimately it's more efficient to just put the monitor into sleep/powersave mode.>>107032905Nobody's stopping you from using them, but running them uses non-negligible electricity which you'll have to pay for. If it's worth it for you then so be it.It's a logical misstep to connect screensaver power usage to datacenter power usage. Not saying datacenter power usage isn't an issue, it should just be treated separately.
>>107032851I use https://bauhausclock.com/I miss After Dark thoughThe flying toaster one was probably one of the lamer ones
>>107032851They're not necessary anymore because burn in isn't an issue and usually you just turn the monitor off. But they should totally make a come back.
>>107033630>https://bauhausclock.com/>$19>for a fucking>clock>screensaverDo iToddlers really?
>>1070330231/10
for me, it was
I liked the Windows 7 bubbles screenshot.Sometimes it bugged and the bubbles were going crazy fast.I once missed my dealer because at first I didn't realize the clock isn't updating when you see the bubbles.
>>107032851me
>>107032921Based and soulpilled.
>>107032851Don't need to, but I still do regardless because boomer brain.
screensavers are fun and art
Waste of processing power running one. All you need is a black screen (I don't like the monitor turning off and on as that reduces lifespan).
>>107034636>(I don't like the monitor turning off and on as that reduces lifespan)More quickly than leaving it running 24/7?
I just sleep my computer and the monitors take a nap as well
>>107032851>Do you know anyone that still uses one?I'd imagine your average OLED user.
Are we so fucking stalled out on technology that you retarded zoomers are going back and looking at ancient, out of date shit and trying to be nostalgic about it? Or did your shitty thirdie country get a bunch of free computers from the first world that were stored in a room for 30 years?
>>107033023LCDs can get temporary image retention, I've seen it happen on some monitors, mostly older ones (like a decade+ at this point). The retention is temporary though, it goes away on its own if the screen shows a different image for a while. They don't get permanently and irreversibly worn out like OLED or CRTs (much slower than OLED though).
Mystify Your Mind
>>107034804MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODS
why did boomers think screensavers were better than making monitors go into sleep mode?
>>107033020are these rendered on the fly, or is it a seamless video file?
>>107034986screensavers died off once monitors started supporting sleep mode
>>107034986 Because everything back then took time to do. It wasn't the instantly gratifying troon porn that you like to look at every night.
>>107032921yepthis is it
>>107033533Checked and based.
>>107035082take your meds
>>107035159Take your hormones.
>>107033734just tell your htpc not to turn off the display
>>107032851>It's interesting that they just completely died out.Not really if you're old enough to know better. Power saving modes where quite crap until Windows Vista or Windows 7. I don't recall there every being a monitor "sleep" function in Windows XP. Also, the increasing concern over power usage made MS and other implement proper sleep functions instead of burning power on pretty pictures.
>>107035168my balls work. i don't need to inject anything like you do
>>107035273pee comes from the balls
>>107035019Video. More efficient power-wise and helps them justify charging $1200 for 4TB storage upgrade
>>107035236neither are you. i have a monitor here from 1996 that supports soft power (it can turn itself off if there's no signal) it was pretty universal by the end of the '90s
>>107032851Turns out putting the monitor into sleep mode instead of having it display a 3D maze for hours on end is better for the monitor's health and energy consumption.
>>107035416> it was pretty universal by the end of the '90slmao, no, it wasn't.
>>107035443lmao, yea it was
>>107035451You're retarded.
>>107035416I'm talking about the OS, not the monitor. Sleeping or hibernating with mechanical HDD were really shitty then, slow. What you are talking about was more for turning your computer off when done working on the computer, and letting the monitor turn itself off. The screen savers were used for quick breaks instead of sleeping or hibernating the entire system to avoid screen retention, which can absolutely happen to CRTs.
>>107032939Making a tiny drop in the bucket of overall world power consumption for leisure purposes is perfectly fine and moral. No different than watching a movie or playing a game.To say otherwise is to be a serf/salve.
>>107035477>I'm talking about the OS, not the monitor.maybe check the thread topic again
>>107035407how big is the file? i am guessing it's 100gb
>>107035499>i'm just a teensy-tiny little minuscule drop in the bucketIt adds up, sugartits.
>>107032921even works fine on windows 11
>>107035519Screensavers? Ok, confirmed retarded.
I have screensavers enabled on Kodi, not because of the OLED TV but to preserve the HDR mode. Once the TV loses video signal, it doesn't resume in HDR and Kodi doesn't tell it to, so I would have to stop and start the movie.Instead, the screensaver kicks in and there is continuity of signal, so HDR doesn't get disabled.
>>107035544Yea, it's worth it. You want to be a fucking slave? I don't... You do you, I do me. If I want a screensaver playing for comfiness/entertainment and you don't like it then you can go fuck yourself. If you buy into the climate change hoax so hard that you feel guilty for using a screensaver then you're in a cult.I also leave some of my led lightbulbs turned on 24/7.
>>107035566what obsoleted screensavers was monitors being able to go into standby. not sure why you brought up the computer going into standby
>>107035608Most people used them for entertainment though.
>>107034836as far as i know lcds simply get a sticky charge, since that's how they're controlled. modarn ones use ac wiggle so it doesn't happen anymore. it should be possible to flex out the sticky pixels by flashing black and white for a bit.
>>107033697>bauhaus>pretentious drivel justifying their purchase and the laptop as some center piece work of art
>>107033697Remember when applel lost to swiss railways after copying their clock
>>107032851power sleep mode took its place
>>107032851I use a self made one. I just find screensavers cool. Mine would actually cause screen to burn in if it was used as an actual screensaver
>>107033027i still use this screensaver today (win7 machine).
Oh my god you're wasting 3 cents per year of electricity by running a screensaver instead of putting the monitor to sleep, you monster! YOU'RE KILLING TREES AND DRAINING THE OCEANS!
>>107032851i like this one
>>107035523it's procedural vector animation, the other anon saying it's video is retard
>>107032851Yeah, on my Windows XP, I use 3D Mazehttps://markk-b.tripod.com/downloads/w98maze/w98maze.htmlThen on my Mac OS 8.1 on the G3 beige, I use After Dark 3.0 with all the extrashttps://macintoshgarden.org/apps/after-dark-3On linux, I use xscreensaver with all the xscreensaver extras. All of them enabled except for any of them that are bright and white as fuck set to randomhttps://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/download.htmlOn another one of my computers, I also have the nvidia western train screensaver because why not.https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/nvidia_screensaver_collection.html
>>107034986Because CRT monitors didn't have a sleep mode like LCDs
>>107036759was there a physical reason why?
>>107032851OLED brought them back, but they're kinda soulless.
>>107032851I still use one because it's cool.
>>107036826If I had to guess, probably couldn't send that type of signal over VGA
>>107032921such warm memories
>>107034102i fail to see where the nigger is, im only seeing aryan technological superiority
>>107035233then i get burn in from PandoraGIVE ME BACK MY SCREENSAVER
>>107032851putting consistent wear on your screen is still putting wear on your screeni just let my monitor go blank when i'm not using it
>>107032851I still use one.Bubbles is pretty good.
>>107032921Somewhere I still have an installer that modded this one to have grungy metallic textures and added a bunch of fittings so it looked like chunks of cast iron pipe being thrown together.
>>107033533Oh man I remember my school's computers had the flying toaster game too.
they're still needed on OLED displays. i like ribbons
>>107036842OLEDs use them because you couldn't tell if the TV is on or off at a glance without it
>>107037303they're not, the display can just turn itself off instead
>>107037351yeah but what he said >>107037341
>>107032898>>107032926>>107032939>>107032946>>107032983>>107033023>>107033335>>107033585>>107034636>>107034821Fuck off kike. Xscreensaver is still getting updates 20+ years later. There's even an Android version you can use as live wallpaper.
>>107037368you can just have a little indicator led somewhere to show that it's on/offa screen"saver" just degrades your oled, evenly so you don't get burn-in, but still slowly turning your display dimmer with time
>>107037639Who asked???
>>107032851I still use one on my CRT
>>107034821I’m a millennial and eat a bag of dicks — they’re fun to look at>>107034986Sleep mode is better for power consumption obviously but screen savers can be nice to look at
>>107032851Oldfag from the Windows 3.1 days. I only used screensavers during the first few months I've owned my first PC, for the novelty factor and I thought they were neat. Then I grew bored of them and realized they were pointless and a waste of CPU power, and even back when it wasn't possible to turn off or suspend the display I just started using the blank screensaver, and never touched screensavers again.
>>107032921fuck yeah
i just pushed the power button on the CRT
>>107033697>Do iToddlers really?Yes. Yes they do. Just look at the machine they buy
>>107033697>he doesn't know
You need to bring them back but tell OLED retards they rejuvinate their pixels
My own poor English annoyed me. So much that even the fucking missing "me" from the second post made me repost yet again. Argh.>>107039210>a waste of CPU power99% of the time, if you have left your computer alone for that long, the CPU power doesn't even fucking matter at that point. I don't give a shit you were using a 286 at the time, it was incredibly unlikely that you would be using Windows 3.1 for tasks that would take waiting for longer than 5 minutes.Also, while I'm thinking about it, my old Windows XP computer was prone to freezing, so the screensaver was a good way for me to check if it had frozen at a glance. By that point though, the CPU and GPU consumption by a screensaver was negligble at best.
>>107033023It happened to me on a shitty Westinghouse TV I had years ago. I had to unplug it for a few days to get rid of it.
>>107040244leaving a white screen up is more effective
>>107033023LCD burn-in used to happen in the first flat screen TV I owned, a CFL-backlit LCD Samsung made in 2006 or 2007. It would burn in hud elements of video games I played during many hours for several consecutive days, and also often burn in the Windows taskbar during the time I used it as a monitor.Thankfully it never suffered permanent burn in. Leaving it on playing some movie content without watermarks, or some LCD burn-in fix video during 6 hours, would get rid of any burn in.
>>107033023and companies with hundreds of monitors 24/7 displaying the same user interface, in manufacturing eg, are not interested in avoiding burn in? Screemsaver might not be the solution for that, but it shows how narrow minded you are
>>107040366The Apple Cinema Display had terrible burn-in, at least the 2008/2009 models.It was not reversible, we were throwing them away.
>>107033394electric sheep was MEGABASED
>>107034886Based
>>107034102I have this on shared work computer, my boomer colleague says it's nostalgic.I set up screensaver because of I ain't paying for power bill or monitor
>>107034636nooooooo not my unused processing power
>>107032851I use a blank one for my QD-OLED monitor. Just as good as putting it to sleep.
>>107040401>companies with hundreds of monitors>home users anywhereLearn to read before replying, fag
Screen savers were pure soul. The world just doesn't have any room for soul anymore. Too many low iq brown people with no internal monologue and no sense of wonder or imagination use computers now.
>>107034636
>>107034986Because it took up to 3 minutes for a cold CRT to turn on, warm up, and stabilize the picture before you could use it, especially if you were working on word processing or spreadsheets.
>>107034636on an LCD leaving it on a black screen means the backlight is still on (LCD's block light), so you're basically wasting maximum power running an LCD with a black image unless you have "dynamic contrast" turned onon a CRT, while leaving one running with a black screen won't burn it in, it will still be using mostly the same amount of power as the filament will still be heated... which is what has a limited lifespan. a crt left on with a black image will get dimmer over time at the same rate as if you were using it, so that's also a dumb ideawhile thermal cycling via constantly turning them on and off wears things out as well, that doesn't mean you should just not turn things off at all, just only do it when it will be off for a good amount of time. like maybe a black screen will be better for a 10min break, but not like, overnight
>>107039210*slow clap*powerful
>>107033027i used a matrix screensaver that worked on all monitors and you could change the colors and speed and stuff, shit was cash on my triple crt setup
>>107034986>why did boomers think screensavers were better than making monitors go into sleep mode?Because sleep mode didn't exist yetCRT monitors only started having sleep mode by the mid-1990s. Once CRT monitors with sleep mode started becoming commonplace, the screensaver trend started dying out
I remember my school having spam of my teacher's face as screensaver on almost every pc lmao. He was such a based guy
>>107042736>Because it took up to 3 minutes for a cold CRT to turn on, warm up136 replies, and this is the only post with the real reason why screen savers went in and out of popularity.
>>107033734have you considered solving your problem with a $300-500 box
>>107033630>bauhausclockdoes it plays bela lugosi is dead when the alarm sounds? if not , i don't care then.
>>107032921As a kid I figured out how to change the texture on some of the stock screensavers so I changed the pipes texture to what I think was a stock image or wallpaper of some red flowers. Doing this made the pipes look like a bunch of meaty intestines growing over the screen.Thinking back on it I guess I've always been fucked in the head.
>>107032851I'm still running a screensaver on my pc. Matrix code.
