J. JONAH JAMESON : [about Peter's pictures of Spider-Man] They're crap. Crap, crap, megacrap. I'll give you two hundred bucks for all of 'em.

-Spider-Man (2002)

A script that checks the internet for integrated circuit (IC) die shots, randomly picks one, then sets the user's desktop background to it. Additionally, an info box pops up which provides some information about the IC. Here is an example output:

The following utilities are used:

• wget
• grep
• cut
• date
• sort
• head
• tail
• xmessage

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Simply copy or download the shell script, set it to be executable, then (optionally) add it as an Ubuntu (or other distro) start-up application.

Feel free to play around with how the script works. For example, you can change the download location for the IC image, the info message, what sort of background image formatting you'd like, etc. This script was developed for Ubuntu 20.04, but can easily be modified to fit your distro (for example, changing the command that sets the user's background).

The -xv option can be added to the standard shebang to help debug script execution:

#!/bin/bash -xv

Alternatively, this script can be executed with the -xv option:

bash -xv getdailyic

• https://siliconpr0n.org/map/
• https://siliconpr0n.org/archive/doku.php?id=collection
• https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/chipshots/index.html (licensing issues??)
• http://www.visual6502.org/ (chip list page is broken...)
• http://diephotos.blogspot.com/
• https://www.cpu-world.com/info/die_pictures.html
• http://www.siliconzoo.org/index.html
• http://www.righto.com/search?q=die+photo
• https://www.reddit.com/r/ReSilicon/
• https://www.instagram.com/evilmonkeyzdesignz/
• https://www.instagram.com/siliconinsider/

Feel free!

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