'round the world and home again, that’s the sailor’s way…

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Cake day: March 21st, 2025

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  • Finally got motivated enough to change the lock screen from other peoples photography to my own. Spend an hour going through shots and make a folder under ‘Pictures’ root folder called ‘Lock screen’, go to the settings for lock screen and select that folder as the slideshow source. “We can’t use that folder so it was removed”. Hmmm. Ok, let me add it to ‘Documents’ instead. Same issue. Hmmm, ok… I hate it, but let me move it under c: - ok, it accepted it, sweet. Lock the screen, not showing anything… Hmmm ok, google it. Apparently it fails silently when it needs permissions. Hmmm, Ok… workaround is to select ‘Photo’ mode instead of slideshow mode, lock the screen. Ok, shows the photo. Ok, now go back to slideshow mode and it should work.

    Wrong place for this rant I know but windows just seems progressively shittier over the years, if that’s even possible.


  • I want to try it out… but the smell test is off: Land on the github and it proudly proclaims the author is not doing this for money, only to help the community! Awesome right? Scroll down a little more to project history… and the first version he created and got bored with and sold. Ok… well let’s click on the website link to actually see what this looks like before cloning and installing… and the first thing I am hit with is join a premium subscription.

    I’m not against making money, we all have to - but please don’t act like it’s “not about the money” and then make it about the money.