#screensaver — Public Fediverse posts
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RE: https://mastodon.cloud/@slashdot/117208679238095197
Remember that #screensaver that supposedly processed space data when your PC was idle? And why not let #AI take control of my computer? This must be either a urban myth or a revival of an old stupid idea.
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That's about how I remember Win98! Cool.
I was only surprised that there's nothing like this in XScreenSaver...
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Rambling "How I Spent My ${DURATION}" braindump.
Last week I was carrying bags of water softener #salt into my furnace room and noticed a small #limescale deposit on the floor in the middle of the room that hadn't been there a few days before. Directly above it are a bunch of water #pipes going off in different directions. Found one 90 degree elbow that had more than the usual accumulation of green stuff on it, like a tiny #stalactite. Okay, water #leak found.
I was going to wait for the weekend to fix it, but it seemed to be speeding up, so I did it Wednesday. I had to cut a chunk of #convoluted pipe out of the system that was way more complex than it should have been. It had to go around other #pipes and join another #pipe and around some joists, but the #plumber who put this in 40 years ago had a #fetish or something. No word of a lie, it reminded me more of the Windows NT "pipes" #screensaver than anything else.
In a volume about the size of a 2L bottle of pop, there were 4 #elbows, 3 #unions, and five little pieces of pipe if I remember correctly. I soldered together a matching jumble of parts ... and then couldn't solder one side of it in, because it's at a local low point, and I couldn't get the last dribbles of #water to stop. Any water wicks the heat away and the #solder doesn't stick.
Ended up using a #flex line with #sharkbite connectors to replace the whole thing. What a shame, I was proud of my replacement.
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This is #fun, #informative, maybe an example of some kind of #hacking #left which we should develop socially (in order to confront against an increasingly decadent #capitalism), and also maybe a good entry-point to learn about an interesting person and #history episodes...
https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/google.html
#google #jwz #xscreensaver #x #screensaver #playstore #store #repos #surveillance #privacy #politics #culture -
