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allan.nyholm

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Nov 22, 2007
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"Remember why you started"

The menu bar is a mess, fight me :D (please don't fight me. I'll lose. I have the stamina of a soft cheese)
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allan.nyholm

macrumors 68020
Nov 22, 2007
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Aalborg, Denmark
There's an app for that... Bartender to the rescue!
Thanks for the share.. I don't think I've ever heard of that application ;)

I do know about it and have even made some customization for it in the past.
I just had not gotten around to installing Hidden Bar or Bartender 4 yet on this installation of macOS Big Sur and I think that I'll wait installing anything Bartender-like until after macOS Monterey is released in a few days and install then on a fresh macOS Monterey installation.
It's just as quick clean installing modern macOS on Intel Macs, especially when showing their age(2015 i5 iMac), as it would be upgrading. I spent more than 45 minutes installing and upgrading even dot-releases of macOS Big Sur - which is very absurd.
A clean install takes little more than an hour, even on a modern large capacity Samsung model SSD- which again is absurd. I can install a competing operating system 3 times over on this very same iMac in the time macOS Big Sur is done installing just once.
 
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davidlv

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Kyoto, Japan
Because an M1 Air gives off no heat I went for a sort of flamy hot desktop. Feel much warmer now!

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The color scheme of Big Sur, garish icons etc., make it important to use a desktop that mitigates the Apple nonsense! I got this picture on MacRumors years ago, and so I cannot give credit where it is due to the source of the image, sorry about that. It does work well though with Big Sur's childish icons!
 

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Traverse

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Lovely wallpaper! Might you have a download link for that one? :D

So I can't for the life of me remember where I found the original, but I have attached it as my 5K version is too large apparently. I just ran this through Pixelmator's ML Super Resolution to make it a bit clearer.
 

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mcdj

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Jul 10, 2007
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Here's my desktop, using the striking default wallpaper from the Pro Display XDR.



For my "laptop", I decided to celebrate the new MBPs by making the blue dark mode wallpaper my new default.
nice. Where’s this from?
 

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