Meanwhile I have the same generic blue background from Rhapsody still on all my devices.
Every default macOS wallpaper
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#122I'm obsessed with having a clean desktop, and beautiful wallpapers. Until recently, I used a neat little app for MacOS called Artdiario [1] that would update my wallpaper every day with a beautiful piece of art and I LOVED it. "Used to" because it looks it's not updated anymore since around 2 months :( Was thinking of re-creating the same "open-source" version of it, that would pick and show art from museums around t…
Yo I would love the help to maintain/curate. A combination of the holidays and a really aggressive start to the new year at work made me fall off the update wagon. Email me and we can setup a time to chat.
Edit: This was really nice to see/hear. Thank you for appreciating this publicly!
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#123I wish more OSes would work with independent photographers to compile a set of beautiful wallpapers. It used to feel easy to find good wallpaper online, but nowadays, especially with macOS's hiDPI settings and my personal desire for #000 true black wallpapers to hide notches and camera holes, it can feel very difficult. Search engines don't yield good results for 4k or 5k images, and a lot of the hi-res wallpaper sub…
FWIW my windows 11 laptop I use has a new high quality wallpaper every day. I don't know where it gets the images from, but many are pretty cool even if they are a bit "too HDRy" at times.
Might it be Microsoft Bing's wallpaper[0] app?
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#124I wish more OSes would work with independent photographers to compile a set of beautiful wallpapers. It used to feel easy to find good wallpaper online, but nowadays, especially with macOS's hiDPI settings and my personal desire for #000 true black wallpapers to hide notches and camera holes, it can feel very difficult. Search engines don't yield good results for 4k or 5k images, and a lot of the hi-res wallpaper sub…
It's infuriating finding an excellent wallpaper, only to find that it's 900 pixels wide or "4k" with so much compression it looks worse than uncompressed 720p. That and the grotesque photoshops that fill the results when looking for space wallpapers. On the plus side, Tineye can be quite helpful for finding things in their original size. And I only use 1080p!
Re: space wallpapers
My favorite source for all space-related pictures are the Apollo flight journal photography archives[1].
I’m not sure if there’s a better resource, as-is you have to click through to see a higher resolution version to check if the picture is even in focus, but honestly that adds to the fun of it :)
[1]: https://www.nasa.gov/history/afj/ap08fj/a08-photoindex.html
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#125Things brings back so many great memories.
I got into computing just as OS X launched. I installed every version with great anticipation. A ritual with my Mac geek friends every year.
I feel we have lost that excitement in todays world.
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#126These were the best ones IMO: https://wallpapertag.com/img/eyJpdiI6ImlFY2hqYStNSno4Z0dBcGY... https://wallpapertag.com/img/eyJpdiI6IlZ2N1R4bVpXYm9DVTRPS3l...
The fish one on my 2006 white plastic macbook takes me back.
For me it's the grass one, and creating Adium themes to complement it!
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#127It's not mentioned on the page, but at least 10.0 to 10.8 are AI upscaled -- you can tell from the artifacts when looking at the image closely.
I don't think it's reasonable to call this an "archive", as the link does, when the images have undisclosed changes to them and are clearly not the original files :/
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#128Re: Every default macOS wallpaper
#129I wish more OSes would work with independent photographers to compile a set of beautiful wallpapers. It used to feel easy to find good wallpaper online, but nowadays, especially with macOS's hiDPI settings and my personal desire for #000 true black wallpapers to hide notches and camera holes, it can feel very difficult. Search engines don't yield good results for 4k or 5k images, and a lot of the hi-res wallpaper sub…
Try searching at somewhere like wallhaven.cc[1], which aggregates wallpapers with good tagging, colour, size and ratio-based searches. A lot of the wallpapers there come from other sources like Flickr, interfacelift, Reddit, 4chan (for better or for worse, /wg/ isn't too bad ), or just direct uploads. I wouldn't say credit is preserved particularly well at all times, which is a shame, but it is just a reverse image s…
A lot of amateur wallpapers have this weird cliché aesthetic. It’s the same two-thirds framing, and (at least to me) some intangible form of unresolved tension or a general feeling of the photographer trying too hard (vs an impromptu shot).
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#130I'd stumbled across this site just recently after realising that the MacOS Monterey upgrade apparently deletes the Yosemite wallpapers. Which is quite unfortunate.