Beyond the defaults, there were 7 different wallpapers available in 10.15 (Catalina): https://9to5mac.com/2019/09/29/macos-catalina-wallpapers/
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's still a daytime top-down Dubai screensaver video on Apple TV I believe.
My Apple TV shows downtown LA.
Looks like there's five active Dubai screensavers. The one parent was talking about is missing. https://bzamayo.com/watch-all-the-apple-tv-aerial-video-scre... also https://aerial-videos.netlify.app/
https://sylvan.apple.com/Videos/comp_DB_D011_C010_PSNK_DENOI...
https://sylvan.apple.com/Videos/comp_DB_D008_C010_PSNK_v21_S...
https://sylvan.apple.com/Videos/comp_DB_D002_C003_PSNK_v04_S...
https://sylvan.apple.com/Videos/comp_DB_D001_C001_PSNK_v06_S...
https://sylvan.apple.com/Videos/comp_DB_D001_C005_COMP_PSNK_...
Looks like they're hosted on a domain with invalid certificate, so your browser might take a bit of convincing to load them.
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#33I miss pre-Yosemite vibes and Aqua's skeuomorphic iteration.
An elegant design language, for a more civilized age.
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#34The one that mystifies me, is why Apple pulled their original Dubai At Night screensaver[0]. [0] https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=766810966790684 (This seems to be the only place to find it online).
I was in a room of Apple TV engineers when the screensaver of I-110 in LA came on. Everyone agreed that it caused mild anxiety. I'm glad I don't see it in the rotation anymore. https://bzamayo.com/watch-all-the-apple-tv-aerial-video-scre...
I don't know why anyone would want to look at gross car dependent hell. Not something to be in awe of
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#35The copyright claim from apple will be legendary
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#36You can't unsee it once seen:
The last three releases as somehow vaginal canals.
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#37The California thing is kinda played. We need a new theme.
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#38They're beautiful, but a small tangent... the latest macOS has a bug that repeatedly reverts the wallpaper to the default whenever I unplug/plug my external monitor and it's driving me crazy.
I think what’s actually happening here is that spaces have separate desktop picture settings between displays.
I noticed this a few days ago when moving a space from one monitor to the other and seeing its desktop picture change. Moving the space back to the original monitor restored the desktop picture.
Not sure why it’s this way, kind of an odd choice.
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#39There is a link at the top for pre-OSX wallpapers. There was one in MacOS 7 or 8 that was called "platte pinda's" in Dutch meaning "flat(tened) peanuts)". That name mystified me at the time. Googling it now, there's only one result for that phrase, completely unrelated. Am I making this up?
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even more fun was the fact the wallpaper widget had a little pixel editor built in that let you make your own tiling pattern. I seem to recall that it updated the desktop in realtime as you changed the pixels so you always knew exactly what your pattern looked like tiled.
Oh, memory unblocked! Didn't Windows 98 had something similar? It could be Win95 but I think it would be too much for that time, and for XP we already had background images in "good quality".
I don't think Windows ever included anything like it with the OS. Windows 95 switched to having a giant JPEG background for the wow factor. Certainly there could have been a third party program that implemented that functionality, but I don't think Microsoft ever shipped it with the OS. Maybe as one of those optional fun pack things they used to offer?