Aido

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)

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: 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:

Only our finest vintage for you, dear sir: Bowser’s military hierarchy | Unravelled

Big bad guy, evil!

We’re on lemmy.ml right now

OP’s example was lockpickinglawyer at 4.39M, YouTube is just a bigger platform than it used to be

EthosLab is your favorite Minecraft YouTuber’s favorite Minecraft YouTuber

Thought Emporium does mad science-level experiments

NighthawkInLight is basically supercharged at-home science

Jet Lag: The Game is tag/capture the flag on steroids

Roffle makes daily Hearthstone videos, mostly in Wild where cards are never cycled out and things get pretty crazy

Edit: more

Rare Earth, run by the son of Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, tells deep stories from obscure places

NileRed does crazy chemistry stuff

I really agree with the people recommending Technology Connections and Techmoan

This Old Tony takes you along as he does stuff on his workshop

The Drum Thing and rdavidr both make interesting videos about weird from equipment, which I never thought I’d be interested in

You may have heard of The Game Grumps before but The Ten Minute Power Hour on their side channel The Grumps has me in stitches every episode

The backlog of the late and great Technoblade, probably one of if not the top Minecraft PvPer while he was alive, is always worth a watch

I never played WoW but I love Crendor’s Pointless Top Ten videos and Barny64’s slow decent into madness playing WoW Classic

I might come back to do more later, I’m doing all of this from a tablet lol