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  • This is an extreme close up of a painting I liked in the National Portrait Gallery in DC.

  • Picture from a ski holiday in the Dolomites in Italy. The weather made for bad skiing but great photos. They built a restaurant on that view a few years back unfortunately.

  • Was into Dogecoin for the meme in high school, haven't touched crypto in years but now I've become too attached to my background to change it.

  • I generated it using Midjourney. I like the flowers :)

    Oh and the wallpaper on my work laptop:

  • Mine's a phone. Because it's a phone. Had it so long I don't remember where it came from.

  • Lock screen

    Home screen (i applied a black tint since i had trouble reading white text against it)

    I got them from lurking r/wallpaper though I wish i knew more of their original sources

  • It's a photo i took of one of those big ass beams where boats "park" on a foggy but very blue early morning, during a time in my life i was leaving at night on little "suicide walks" with my camera.

    It's not a very great or visual photograph, i put a teal filter over it as it's my wife's favorite color and photography sort of saved me while my wife saved me the first time i got lost in this suicidal rut.

    Covid really screwed us over (it wasn't just covid, right before we tried to buy a house after years of saving with the help of friends we trusted but shouldn't have), no income, no house, no safety net...just a backpack and a fresh start during the worst possible time ever.

    I got so lost in having no faith left that the job interview i did manage to land, i needed someone to pick me up halfway and take me there...i just collapsed and believed i wouldn't get out of this hole. I never got that job but being at the bottom of the pit only leaves you with one direction to go: up.

    And up we went...eventually, very slowly.

    I'm not sharing the image as it's mine and mine alone, it's my pain, my struggle, my lesson and my strength.

    I might actually have it printed and on my wall someday.

  • Forehead-slapping moment: After broswing this thread and trying to figure out the weird aspect ratios, I realised that you guys are using custom wallpapers on your mobile phones.

  • My solution is a bit eccentric: I wrote a webserver I call Wallpaper Garden that let's you define crops of tour collection at different aspect ratios and then serves them via a random endpoint or RSS feed. Then I consume the random endpoint from a Tasker script on my phone and watch and the RSS feeds from John's Background Switcher on my PC.

    My collection is made up mostly of game press kit images (Destiny, Blizzard, Skyrim, Nintendo, etc.) but also some default OS stuff, random high-res images from Reddit, astronomy photos/collages by A. James McCarthy, and some other random stuff

    Current set:

    • Oh and my favorite live wallpapers are Mark Ferrari's Living Worlds on Android and my Wallpaper Engine ports of the Minecraft Plus! April Fools joke on desktop.

    • My solution is a bit eccentric

      First you had my curiosity....

      I wrote a webserver I call Wallpaper Garden

      But now you have my attention

      • I want to do a rewrite, it's got some silly issues RN:

        • Crops are stored in individual CSVs per image and ratio instead of a proper database and when you restart the server it has to reload all of them
        • The only UI is the gallery and the image cropping screen
        • To get to the gallery you have to type your screen resolution into the URL bar
        • Thumbnails aren't cached so they load into the gallery very slowly
        • I send 1:1 wallpapers to both my tablet and watch but when some particular art of Sylvanas that looks great on my watch gets send to my tablet while it's in landscape it's just her torso

        Regardless of all that I think its still pretty nifty and I'd be willing to help set it up or you follow me on Mastodon I'll post there when I have news: @aido@social.undarkpixel.com

        (I lost my hobby coding spark for a while but it seems to be coming back, though right now that's in the form of an Anki plugin that generates a flashcard deck by extracting data from the vocab app for a Japanese textbook called Genki)

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