[exe34]

My favourite screensaver was a mac app I installed around 2009, it would randomly show a BSOD. Was quite the novelty at the time, given the laptop only really crashed twice in the 4 years I had it and then had to give it back to the department.

[pryelluw]

OT: check out my annoying screensaver based on the bouncing DVD logo. https://github.com/pryelluw/mac-dvd-screensaver

[rideontime]

Sounds like the BSOD screensaver included in XScreenSaver, which you can still install today: https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/screenshots/

It actually fooled me once when it happened to choose a MacOS crash screen while I was in the bathroom.

[MikeTheGreat]

This link doesn't go to a screenshot of a BSOD - it goes to a picture that disses (insults) HackerNews folks (https://cdn.jwz.org/images/2024/hn.png). Was this on purpose?

Based on the rest of the comment I'm guessing you pasted the wrong link?

If not - congrats on the successful Rick Rolling (or whatever it's called)

[unpixer]

No, that's probably the correct link, but jwz doesn't like the HN crowd and filters for referers.

[exe34]

That's the level of petty I aspire to, but don't have the energy to deliver on.

[inhumantsar]

just imagine the hours that someone spent making that unsettling image.

if someone found a way to turn spite into electricity, we would never need to build another power plant.

[exe34]

Spite is the greatest motivator. Many a book have I finished reading because damn it, I'm not folding.

[avhon1]

Copy the link and open it in a new tab. Works fine.

[082349872349872]

rideontime's link is cromulent; jwz does that if you follow it from HN.

[rideontime]

lmao I forgot he did that with the referrer, that rules. I think it used to be goatse.

[sumtechguy]

There is one from MS too.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/blu...