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Show HN: Bash Screensavers

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225 points attogram | 3 comments | 28 Oct 25 11:12 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

A github project to collect a bunch of bash-based screensavers/visualizations.
1. prmoustache ◴[28 Oct 25 21:43 UTC] No.45739627[source]▶
Do screens still need to be saved?
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2. blacksmith_tb ◴[28 Oct 25 21:47 UTC] No.45739661[source]▶
OLEDs are famous for burning in[1], so potentially "yes".

1: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2918628/your-oled-displays-w...

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3. prmoustache ◴[28 Oct 25 22:16 UTC] No.45739966[source]▶
Don't tell me they burn when showing nothing or going to sleep?

We used to have screensavers with CRT because it took them a lot of time to power on and most early CRTs didn't have power saving capabilities so showing something wasn't significantly worse than having a black screen in term of power usage.