I 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…
Every default macOS wallpaper
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#142Those 10.0-10.4 wallpapers remind me a lot of wallpapers I made with Fyre back when I ran Windows 95 as a primary.
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#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
Debatable. They're visually too busy and noisy to see all the time.
I agree completely. The best wallpaper is pure black. I haven't used anything other than black in ~20 years.
black wallpaper will be awesome for battery life once OLED laptop screens come out
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#144Running out of ideas to promote the website
More boring and uninteresting Apple boringness
What is so interesting about wallpapers? Nothing!
The typical self promotion through HN.
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#145What was the one with rotating windmill-like propeller geometric shapes? Or maybe that is a screensaver I'm thinking of...
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#146I remember when having a wallpaper was a big deal. I have a few screenshots of my desktops over the years and they do bring back memories. But I've used a tiling window manager for the past 5 years or so and there's no point having a wallpaper. I consider it a waste of screen space now.
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#147The default wallpaper for Sonoma for me has been an interactive image of what looks like wine country in France?
Sonoma is wine country in Northern California
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think laptop users rarely see much of their wallpaper, and that’s a significant fraction of users. You could even argue that, if you see your wallpaper close to “all the time”, your monitors are larger than you need most of the time.
Jokes on you, I give my terminals a slight opacity so I can see the wallpaper all the time. Sometimes I'll keep an empty workspace up just to declutter and focus on something on the other monitor.
Same - I always keep some opacity on my windows and I use gaps on i3
It's not necessary, I could as well set black wallpaper and no gaps, but I like it so it's good enough excuse ;)
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#14910.4 Tiger - my favorite
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#150(admirable) these images did incredible psychic damage to kde designers i used the catalina bg until late last year, when they started shipping the former appletv video backgrounds as the default, because it was just so good. seriously, after that on a 5k display, i thought i would never enjoy another desktop background
Years ago in one of my previous jobs, we started to have issues with the internet connection multiple times a day. After a couple of days someone noticed that the issues happen whenever I go out for smoking.
When they first introduced those aerial videos for Apple tv, someone made a screensaver out of them for MacOS and I was using that. It turns out whenever I went to smoke, my screensaver would activate and choke the network with 4k (5k?) glory.