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On 12/31/2022 at 7:54 AM, CrossBow said:

@MaximumRD I have to ask, where are you finding/getting all of these? Many of them are ones I wouldn't mind having in some random rotation on my system but I never seem able to find any that I really like. I've been using an old Bing space related theme that carried over from my older win10 install that still works when I upgraded to win11. But yeah some of those are easily ones I'd like and you have so many of them.

Are they just random from some URL that it grabs from daily or are these pics you actually have stored away somewhere in your computers?

 

 

 

Sorry just seeing this now. Well I draw from a variety of sources, many wallpaper dedicated sites, more recently though a couple wallpaper communities on Reddit. Some links:

The Astronaut wallpaper was form here but there is a lot more to choose in a variety of categories. 

https://wallhaven.cc/

 

Other sources:

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallpaper/

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallpapers

http://wallpaperswide.com/

https://www.wallpaperup.com/

https://wall.alphacoders.com/big.php?i=3973

 

 

 

 

I am Rob aka MaximumRD aka OldSchoolRetroGamer and THIS is my world http://about.me/maximumrd

"For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday."

 - M. Bison

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Oh and SILLY ME, how could I forget a favorite source of amazing images for wallpapers : artstation.com ! This site alone I could peruse endlessly finding every type of wallpaper imaginable! 

For example my current desktop, get wallpaper HERE: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/nYmmY4

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Or THIS: 

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Find it HERE: 

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/5XVkgP

 

I am Rob aka MaximumRD aka OldSchoolRetroGamer and THIS is my world http://about.me/maximumrd

"For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday."

 - M. Bison

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16 hours ago, MaximumRD said:

Tonight's Desktop - 

 

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I'm really digging these blade runner and general cyberpunk like citiscapes. I've not had much luck using the search on those sites you've linked to really show me the kind of stuff like that I'm more interested in.

 

See what I'm up to over at the Ivory Tower Collections: http://www.youtube.com/ivorytowercollections

 

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2 hours ago, CrossBow said:

I'm really digging these blade runner and general cyberpunk like citiscapes. I've not had much luck using the search on those sites you've linked to really show me the kind of stuff like that I'm more interested in.

 

Well for that specifically the artist is found on Artstation, the link I added in the next post after the initial set of links. 

Find that and tons of other work he has done HERE: 

https://www.artstation.com/pao

I am Rob aka MaximumRD aka OldSchoolRetroGamer and THIS is my world http://about.me/maximumrd

"For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday."

 - M. Bison

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I am Rob aka MaximumRD aka OldSchoolRetroGamer and THIS is my world http://about.me/maximumrd

"For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday."

 - M. Bison

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😎My current Desktop -

Wallpaper HERE : https://www.reddit.com/r/wallpapers/comments/10x6e81/delorean_ambient_drive_by_visualdon_5120x2880/

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I am Rob aka MaximumRD aka OldSchoolRetroGamer and THIS is my world http://about.me/maximumrd

"For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday."

 - M. Bison

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Current Desktop - side note, I've personally never played NO MAN'S SKY in any form but it makes for a cool wallpaper imho. Anyone played / enjoyed / recommend it? 🤔🤷🏼‍♂️Not sure it's my type of game but screenshots from it do seem intriguing.  

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I am Rob aka MaximumRD aka OldSchoolRetroGamer and THIS is my world http://about.me/maximumrd

"For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday."

 - M. Bison

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It's been a minute so here is latest. This is our new Lenovo Legion desktop PC, replacing the previous CyberPowerPC (and by replace I mean it's in the bedroom and now dedicated 100% as my Hobby / tinkering / do whatever the hell I want with PC 😝😂) which is great, the old CyberPower had a Nvidia 1060 6GB + Ryzen 5 1500x however it not being Windows 11 hardware supported (OH I am running it regardless it's just that the CPU is not "officially" supported 🙄) only option since we need a dependable /reliable and compliant main desktop, not just as our hub of our computing needs but my wife needs it as a backup for remote IT work etc, was to either upgrade the CPU to the next Ryzen on the supported list but we opted to instead just get a new machine all together, because the CyberPower was going on 5 years old and I am not as, let's say enthusiastic about doing CPU replacements between eye issues and just not having the patience for tedious work anymore. So after searching a couple weeks found a nice deal on this Lenovo Legion Desktop which even gave us an "upgrade" with compliant hardware including a 12th Gen core i7-12700 + Nvidia 3060 8GB ! Maybe not that impressive but as nice as the previous machine was and still is this one seems to kick it's butt in benchmark comparisons. So win - win I guess, no complaints. 

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I am Rob aka MaximumRD aka OldSchoolRetroGamer and THIS is my world http://about.me/maximumrd

"For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday."

 - M. Bison

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3 hours ago, RickR said:

One of these days, I may ask you for help on doing a Win 11 upgrade on a "non-compliant" CPU.  But for now, I'm happy with Win 10 on my machines.

 

Honestly, I fumble my way through this stuff and between stubbornness and a little luck I just manage😂 I'm no wiz and such things really and even worse at instructing. Let me share the details on how I managed this "magic" thus far 😝 Sadly, as long as it's not on the list of officially supported hardware you would be better off either upgrading your CPU or replacing it completely as it's rather tricky to say the least, at the moment I'm still running Win 11 but the only reason I am not getting the constant nagging message in updates is because I am in the Windows Insiders program, signed in with a Microsoft account so my installed Windows version is an "Insiders Preview". Sort of a work around as Microsoft graciously allows us end users to be "beta Testers" IE: Guinea pigs of sort but of course if I opt out OR once the current subscription period ends and the next full version is released according to Microsoft the only option will be to "upgrade hardware OR downgrade OS back to Windows 10" which of course is not an realistic option for us hence the new PC. 🙄 FYI regarding official Windows 10 support "Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025. The current version, 22H2, will be the final version of Windows 10, and all editions will remain in support with monthly security update releases through that date."

So yeah, I am currently pretty much playing leap frog with MS, I WILL keep Windows 11 on the CyberPowerPC as long as I can manage through whatever means mostly because I have everything perfect and setup and optimized and customized to perfection but I didn't want to have to rely on it daily as that support could literally be pulled at anytime. That's not to say it will stop working etc, but it WILL mean eventually the end up security updates etc. INDEED a few month back during a major "feature update" during the process of installing the latest revision I actually got a message half way through install that the update could not continue since it was "unsupported hardware" even though I had been running Win11 just fine, great actually up to that point (don't even get me started on my belief that MS is simply in bed with hardware manufacturers or getting kickbacks to suggest certain hardware is no longer valid, my Ryzen 5 1500x CPU is more than powerful enough imho). I WAS NOT AMUSED, fortunately I just restored my last OS image, I image the OS quite regularly, so in no time I restored it to the last revision before the update. NOW THIS IS THE IMPORTANT PART, this was when I thought well maybe I could simply go to my Update settings and enroll in the Insiders Program, I've done this for many years with both natively installed and virtual installs of Windows and really have never had an issue with the lowest tier of the Insiders Editions, so PREVIEW level, even BETA level has never really presented a problem though MS does not recommend using that on your main PC, hey I cannot be told what to do, I'm a rebel 😎.

Sadly, the INSIDER option was not showing as available, likely BECAUSE of my unsupported hardware status. Being the stubborn sort, certainly more stubborn then smart, after much research and googling, basically I was able to go into windows SERVICES and re-enable Windows Insiders service, if I recall I may have also had to edit or delete some registry entries but the end result was Insiders option was now present and after signing in with my MS account and a reboot later I was enrolled, checked updates and that very same update that previously refused downloaded and installed now problem, sigh of relief, rebooted and was now running the latest current revision of Windows 11 Insiders Preview.

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Since then all updates have installed fine including even a couple more feature updates. I've no idea if or when that machine will once again refuse to install a new revision, I suspect if / when that time comes I re attempt the same steps again, worse comes to worse and there simply is no fooling the MS servers or getting around it there ARE programs that let's just say gives one more control over specific updates, basically letting you suppress feature updates while I think still receiving critical / security updates, this is NOT the same as the PAUSE UPDATES for 1 week in update settings but programs developed by people smarter than I that I don't like to use but I will if it's between that and downgrading back to 10, since it's no longer the main PC and I run my own security apps and image the OS regularly it's not the biggest loss.  

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I am Rob aka MaximumRD aka OldSchoolRetroGamer and THIS is my world http://about.me/maximumrd

"For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday."

 - M. Bison

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On 2/25/2023 at 2:11 AM, MaximumRD said:

Current Desktop - side note, I've personally never played NO MAN'S SKY in any form but it makes for a cool wallpaper imho. Anyone played / enjoyed / recommend it? 🤔🤷🏼‍♂️Not sure it's my type of game but screenshots from it do seem intriguing.

I haven't taken that many screen shots from the game but play it quite often. That said, this is one of the few I've kept over the years and is my favorite scene with all the planets aligned as they were. It was an accident I happened to land in this spot to do this but I'm sure glad I did and took the screen shot. This is from the PS4 version that I play and it still looks pretty amazing graphically.

 

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See what I'm up to over at the Ivory Tower Collections: http://www.youtube.com/ivorytowercollections

 

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3 hours ago, CrossBow said:

I haven't taken that many screen shots from the game but play it quite often. That said, this is one of the few I've kept over the years and is my favorite scene with all the planets aligned as they were. It was an accident I happened to land in this spot to do this but I'm sure glad I did and took the screen shot. This is from the PS4 version that I play and it still looks pretty amazing graphically.

 

NMS_Atreyu_Solar.jpg

Looks awesome. Hopefully I will get round to playing it one day, if so will definitely have to be PC version because I have none of the recent consoles.

 

EXTRA - since I just did this and I am here:

Just updated to latest Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25926 (Canary BUILD) in VMware. I only run Preview or Beta tiers natively but in Virtual I tinker with Developer and Canary Channels. 

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I am Rob aka MaximumRD aka OldSchoolRetroGamer and THIS is my world http://about.me/maximumrd

"For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday."

 - M. Bison

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Current wallpaper on ASUS laptop. Just really liked the look especially the more I look around at the details.

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I am Rob aka MaximumRD aka OldSchoolRetroGamer and THIS is my world http://about.me/maximumrd

"For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday."

 - M. Bison

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