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Is this AGI?

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Is this AGI?

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I miss screen savers sometimes.
It's a 30 year old screen saver.
It's just a graphical representation of The Internet (a series of tubes).
- IT'S NOT A BIG TRUCK
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.
- 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.
- 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.
  
  Pretty sure it was 7. Loved those bubbles.
- 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. 🤷‍♂️
  
  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.
- Eh. I'm fine with the screen just shutting off.
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
- Where's Bill the Cat though
- I have not seen that in... a long time.
  
  You knew when it started because the cooling fans jumped up to jet engine levels.
- Like the civilisation that grew inside a train station locker
  
  All hail J!
That's why I use flying toasters instead.
- I'm team Starfield
  
  The only thing that managed to replace starfield in my heart was Matrix. And even then, someone did a Matrix starfield and all was right with the world. I want a matrix wallpaper now, dammit.
  
  Once I could run the matrix screensaver, I never looked back.
My computer started playing Doom by itself.
- Wolfenstein 3D, please.
  
  That would be cool to build something that actually plays wolf 3d.
- Isn’t that Wolfenstein?
  
  Can't be with zero-thickness walls.
- This is still mesmerizing.
  
  I always found it stressful because there's no way out. Just endless wandering.
- Weren't we able to change the textures used in this? We could have made it doom or wolfenstein or duke 3d...
- That's just because you're computer is autistic and can't relate with the other computers so it retreats into video games.
This was back before the Internet was not a big truck, but a series of tubes.
- I thought it was a box:
  
  dude did you get permission to photograph The Internet?
  
  edit: Better image source.
For the newer people in the crowd: A screen protector is part of the immune system for electronic displays.
- 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.
  
  Then there was a tv show called The Screensavers. That was fun.
- before flatscreens, mostly
  
  Even old flatscreens had terrible burnin. Especially plasma, but nobody was using those for computering.
No, a real AGI is like a stoned, delusional artificial psychopath who, without a data center, would be completely stoned.
Any chance getting a link to install this on xfce or kde ?
- Probably takes a lot of GPU to run this. You probably need windows 12 or later.
  
  Yeah it runs on Unreal Engine 5, with Nanite, Lumen and shitty TAA.
- Should be part of xscreensaver.
- Pretty sure the arrogant Mr Zawinski ported it ages ago.
Time to take your pills and go to bed, Mr.

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