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   Alan to Maria Sophia   
   Re: How to create a plain wallpaper/back   
   17 Feb 26 17:59:12   
   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2026-02-17 17:30, Maria Sophia wrote:   
   > Carlos E. R. wrote:   
   >>>> It is still a picture, it has to be drawn pixel by picture. The CPU   
   >>>> doesn't know that all the pixels are the same colour.   
   >>>   
   >>> Wrong - the CPU *does* know that, since the compression algorithm tells   
   >>> the CPU "this is a big black rectangle".   
   >>   
   >> Maybe, maybe not. That data is internal to the generic jpg library.   
   >> Probably the initial picture is decoded once and stored in bitmap form.   
   >   
   > While you were discussing this (and while you were posting to troll threads   
   > that you, yourself authored and only trolls responded to), I purposefully   
   > helpfully invested my value added into writing up this PSA to help everyone   
   > set their background homescreen/lockscreen to ANY desired solid RGB color   
   > on Windows, iOS and Android, simply using the web or any text editor.   
      
   Only you got it wrong in that you claimed that iOS can't do it   
   "*directly* natively set the background color by number".   
      
   Happy to set you straight.   
      
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