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Does anyone have a source for good Terminal backgrounds? Terminal backgrounds differ from Desktop backgrounds in that they need to allow easy reading of text - so Desktop backgrounds aren't suitable for this ...
I've been enjoying the Bing wallpaper app. Every day, it's something new that arrives! https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/bing-wallpaper
Personally, my backgrounds are things important to me, I easily forget about, and can't easily action.
For example, one background is of my family, including my grandma who doesn't have any kind of social media or digital communication device at all. I'm in another country, so actions available to contact her are small. Reminders of her are infrequent - chats with my family are usually not about her. But I don't want to forget her, so into my slideshow rotation it goes.
Another background is a theme park in Denmark featuring a 65m free fall tower into a huge safety net. International travel is hard now, and I know no one wants to do this theme park attraction with me. Odds are stacked against me to remember this thing, so into the slideshow.
All the above pictures are low res and crap. But they're important to me. I do love beautiful high res backgrounds, but I've now decided they bring me less joy than the above.
Years ago I used DeviantArt quite a bit for that ( https://www.deviantart.com/ ). I don't really know how good a resource it is these days but it's still a thing.
When I was younger, I took a camera with me to some of the places I traveled. The first time I went out west, I saw these amazing open landscapes with skies that didn't end. And getting to the rockies or sierras, I was just awestruck.
And I took pictures with my camera.
But years later I looked at them, and the images of landscapes were "fine".
However, the photos that stood the test of time were the ones with people in them. One family member, even scratching their nose was 10x a landscape. Even my motorcycle accidentally captured to the side of the image was better than a pristine landscape photo with perfect composition and lighting.
So good background images capture things on more than one level.
Another hack I found fun was to make background images in places very familiar to myself. Uniform photos of the stone walkway at my parents house, or the green grass of their backyard are abstract and non-distracting but familiar and calming backgrounds I like.
There are some exceptions I do make. I do like some city images I find on wikipedia, such as:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Toledo_%...
or the textured background of this image:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Unmatina...
I guess a lot of people here use a Mac. Amethyst for MacOS provides the same basic features as i3.
Maybe somewhat nostalgic, but I remember cycling through many artworks by digitalblasphemy [1] during the early-mid 2000s. Honestly surprised to see there's still new content! [1] https://digitalblasphemy.com/
