Best screensaver I used to have was the BSOD one from xscreensaver, so many people fell for it.
Second best is the nyan cat screensaver.
Currently have an Apple image gallery of space themed pictures.
Just in case anyone wants to try it, please grab latest build here instead : https://github.com/JohnCoates/Aerial/releases
Or if you want an installer with auto updates, get it here : https://aerialscreensaver.github.io
Latest betas include Apple Music/Spotify integration, Speed control, and brings back the ability to put your videos anywhere (including an external drive!) on Monterey.
No guarantees from me that it's any good : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.codingbuff...
It's open source too, according to the description, it streams and doesn't cache videos and apparently it handles 4K HDR. If data usage is a concern to you, be aware that some videos are close to 1 GB.
If bandwidth is a concern, you can also point it towards a local JSON file with whatever URLs you want, so you can mirror the screensavers locally and then stream them from there.
Such a subtle huge flex.
I'm sure for the right opportunity they'd work with anybody. I suspect it's not a matter of connections, but rather, "We'll put a gorgeous shot of your facility on millions of TVs worldwide" is a slam-dunk pitch.
The otherworldliness of the video seems to come more from the smoothness of the motion and the uncommon perspective. Because many of the scenes are captured with drones instead of helicopters or airplanes they have a literal bird's perspective in terms of velocity and altitude.
They definitely are massively stabilised though and Apple used to update videos from time to time, tweaking stabilization, colors or sometimes length and pushing new versions. They haven't done that in a long while though.
Some seem shot from fairly high altitude and may use planes instead, and at least for some videos, I've heard they used 3rd parties to shoot them.
Not all of them are city flyovers; there are also long, slow pans of areas like the Great Wall. Generally, it's just gorgeous.
It was dumb harmless fun.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/blue...
What company won't wipe and reimage it before redeployment?
Hell, I usually wipe my own work PCs before surrendering them after an upgrade, to make sure it's done properly.
I could wipe, but I want to make as little work for my replacement as possible. Well, maybe a few minutes of extra work to get rid of a screensaver.
It was the prank that kept on giving.
Later that day, I read in one of the trade rags about a columnist talking about the efficacy of a bluescreen screensaver.
1+1 = 2
Less than an hour later, most of it spent transcribing the bluescreen text output, I had a BSOD screensaver. Released it to the company intranet and waited for the ensuing hilarity.
Wasn't long before the guys in the build lab took advantage of the screensaver.
They installed the BSOD screensaver and disconnected the mouse and keyboard.
The main dev on the project comes in, sees the bluescreen and proceeds to restart the computer! Oops.
A few years later, on another multi-year large software project at this PNW tech company, the morning that the software was supposed to be signed off and released to manufacturing, the build lab, different group of people, installed the BSOD screensaver and disconnected the mouse and keyboard on the dogfood server for the project.
When the project manager arrived, he went to check on the status of the server, only to find the BSOD. This time a server restart was averted.
So, it's all fun and games until a server is hard rebooted.
Same here - including myself, when I came back from a bathroom break to find it had landed on the MacOS error screen.
> We've designed the OLED screen to aim for longevity as much as possible, but OLED displays can experience image retention if subjected to static visuals over a long period of time. However, users can take preventative measures to preserve the screen [by] utilizing features included in the Nintendo Switch systems by default, such as auto-brightness function to prevent the screen from getting too bright, and the auto-sleep function to go into 'auto sleep' mode after short periods of time.