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Pull fresh Unsplash wallpapers and rotate them on GNOME automatically with a Python script plus a systemd service and timer.

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I hear the American sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live is on its way to starting in Britain, where I now live. I wish them luck, because the UK is definitely funnier than the United States.

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