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by xkeysc0re 1718 days ago
Not if you still have older CRT monitors or plasma screens.

Also login / lock screens are essentially just screen savers

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Screen blanking and DPMS power-off accomplish the same goals, with considerably less energy usage.
Didn’t it used to be necessary to exercise the pixels to keep them from burning in, rather than just turning off the screen? Or is that a thing that started with plasma TVs.