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Microsoft shot real lasers through a window to make Windows 10's wallpaper — surprisingly the iconic art wasn't computer generated (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 27 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Literally why would it do that

[–] AProfessional@lemmy.world 47 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It was written 25 years ago and untouched since probably.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 17 points 6 months ago

Yes but why? Is it so less data can be stored on disk because compressing raster files absolutely does not make them easier to display.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 months ago

Somebody told me that they always use a tiled wallpaper to preserve memory, once.

They were sort of an advanced user in the 90s, but haven't done much computer or engineering related work since then.

If we consider what machines Windows 95 ran on - not even that stupid. Back then.