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Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi

320 points · 138 comments · safaelmali

Razengan · 1790536364 · focus · HN ↗
Man, wish we had dynamic wallpapers like this, and we could have had it decades ago.
Why do companies like Apple & Microsoft sterilize themselves so?
1. richarme · 1790541862 · focus · HN ↗
  This was already a thing almost 3 decades ago. Active Desktop [0] was just a web page displayed instead of the wallpaper image.
  [0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Desktop" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Desktop
  1. Razengan · 1790549290 · focus · HN ↗
    Yeah and there were other 3rd party "hacks" for it, but I mean Windows or macOS never made it an official API, so it never caught on, even though Apple's own "Dynamic Wallpapers" use some kind of motion (they're videos but only during screen-savers or time-based)

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