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please throw me into a trash can

she/her

@slowbird5/10/2023, 9:15 PM

A Jeb With No Name @namelessWrench

tulip @platinumtulip5/10/2023, 4:24 AM

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Blorg³ @blorgblorgblorg5/10/2023, 7:24 AM

here's a tutorial on getting the original windows 98 screensavers like 3d pipes without trusting a random screensaver site

don't worry you won't have to install it in an emulator or anything, that would be insane

step one

download the windows 98 disc image from here at winworld

step two

use 7-zip file manager (or anything else that can open an iso and old windows .cab files) to open the .iso file.

navigate to the win98 folder in the iso and open WIN98_52.CAB

step three

copy the ss[name].scr files to your c:\windows\system32 directory

step four

stylish pipes

#effortposting

@slowbird5/10/2023, 9:15 PM

it's literally

IT'S LITERALLY JUST COPY IT FROM WINDOWS 98????

i love computers sometimes

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BIGFAKE @bigfakeinhell5/10/2023, 4:32 AM

I just found the 3D pipes one from back in the day and I've had it installed ever since I got this laptop lol

friendo.@friendo5/10/2023, 5:15 AM

could youuuuuuuu hook me up. im sick to death of Assorted Idyllic Photos

Blorg³ @blorgblorgblorg5/10/2023, 7:26 AM

wrote a tutorial on this here! https://cohost.org/blorgblorgblorg/post/1475620-hey-what-s-up-copals

i can rehost the file for the pipes one too if this is too much trouble but it is a bad idea generally to trust screensaver files from strangers

@AdamSkI20035/10/2023, 8:06 AM

the xscreensaver project is pretty cool, and there's apparently a windows version too (which I haven't tested yet, I currently use wallpaper engine's screensaver mode on windows)

Blorg³ @blorgblorgblorg5/10/2023, 8:57 AM

i can't find a windows port that's remotely up to date, because apparently he's a weird bitter hypocrite about it! talkin a big game about how he objects to microsoft's business practices and ethics, but he has official ports to google and apple's at best equally evil mobile OSes. wish he had the honesty to just be up front that it's exclusively a personal grudge because, as he mentions, he worked at netscape when ms did the internet explorer thing!

if you have a link to a windows port more recent than ~2015 i'd be interested, a couple of these are interesting looking.

@AdamSkI20035/10/2023, 11:51 AM

you might be able to build https://github.com/katahiromz/XScreenSaverWin from source? the latest release is indeed OLD, but a bunch of commits have been made since then

I might actually try it later, maybe even make it work with github actions because Why Not, I'll update with a link if I decide to do that

Blorg³ @blorgblorgblorg5/10/2023, 12:40 PM

i don't have cmake/msvc energy today i think but thank you, i hadn't noticed. also lmao the releases are source code only anyway!

also thank you for like. not taking it upon yourself to defend that guy, i was sorta inflammatory tonally and i appreciate you just tanking that because i did not actually want to get into a conflict about it. sorry about that.

@AdamSkI20035/10/2023, 4:06 PM

aaaaaand I got a build

(and I'm not rly a fan of jwz's attitude abt this either)

o yea, I also remembered that this exists, it's also p cool

Blorg³ @blorgblorgblorg5/10/2023, 10:07 PM

hell yeah, thank u for the effort, will try later