Describes my typical retail experience, i wouldn’t call that weird at all :D

Using fusion360 and freecad in my AOC 32" 21:9 curved and I see / feel absolutely zero difference to a flat display

It doesnt distort anything for me, my vision simply accounts for the curve and I have no problems

I used homebox but switched over to nocodb

Sure thing, glad you like it! :) https://imgur.com/a/XINL1Yp

Thank you very much! :)

Additionally, if Steam would start to morph into what is posted here, it would simply be integrated into Heroic and / or lutris just as Epic is right now. There would be no need to actually launch steam anymore but just use it as a background service to pipe your games into something else.

yup…

.hidden file became my best friend - and a little context menu script for dolphin to easily add a file / folder to that .hidden is a thing i use way too often tbh

And now show hidden files and you see the plethora of applications that dump everything in your homedir instead of .config

Highly illegal in germany

I didn’t see it that way and was genuinely scared that there was some creep looking through the brushes 🤣

But no, this wasn’t intentional

👀 what?

where is there a creepy face?

Optical Character Recognition

Making a program read a text in image form and make it computer-readable / searchable / selectable

I absolutely agree with you.

You could optimize it though.

As said one comment above, check if it’s the same composition as before and don’t take a screenshot if it didn’t change. Make some rules to filter out video content so if you have a youtube video open it doesn’t take a screenshot every second just because the video is running.

Or you could actually integrate this with your window manager. Only take a screenshot if you move / resize / open / close a window. Make a small extension for browsers that tell it to make a screenshot if you scroll / close / open a page. Then you don’t have to make a screenshot and compare with the one before.

This wouldn’t be as thorough as just forcing screenshots all the time and you would probably not catch stuff like writing a text in libreoffice as you don’t change anything with the window. But it could be a resourceful way to do that.

And if for example no screenshot was taken for 1 minute because nothing called for that, you could just take one regardless. That way you have a minimum of one screenshot per minute or as often as window manager / browser calls for it.

Also, 1MB on full resolution. You could also downscale the images dramatically after you OCR them. So let’s say we shoot in full res, OCR and then downscale to 50%. Still enough so everything is human readable, combined with searchable OCR you’re down to 7,5GB for a whole month.

Absolutely feasable. Let’s say we’re up to 8GB to include the OCR text and additional metadata and just reserve 10GB on your system for that to make double sure.

Now you have 10GB to track your whole 3440x1440 display.

Yeah for example that.

Also with that method you can write out super long serial numbers with only a few characters.

This would be interesting for when you have to number something and have very limited space and don’t want the arabic numbers to be written too small.

I mean lets be honest, this technique is a couple hundred years old and was never adopted or even widespread. So ofc the method we use today is the superior one.

But this is very interesting and fun to play with. For everyone doing TTRPG or LARP this is a cool concept to integrate.

Are you on 16k resolution or something?

When i take a screenshot of my 3440x1440 display it’s 1MB big. I mean this doesn’t change the issue in its core but dramatically downsizes it

No, bottles is just a program that enables you to use wine much more comfortably.

Wine isn’t super hard to use, but it’s annoying. So stuff like Bottles and Lutris exist, both basically do the same. They give you both a GUI and much easier accessable settings for the wine-prefixes. Those prefixes basically are just folders with the faked windows stuff in it.

Lutris is made for games but can be used for programs too. Bottles is made out of the box for both games and programs, has a much more streamlined interface and workflow and lets you easily create new “bottles” (bottle is just the given name for a wine prefix) for each of your games / programs.

Putting everything in their own bottle / prefix is really handy because it allows you to modify the prefix for each application without ruining it for another. If you need a specific version of a certain .dll file for one game but not for others, you can just install that .dll file in the specific bottle / prefix for that one specific game, and the other games just use their own bottles / prefixes with the default .dll for example.

Very handy.

Bottles is usually more recommended because it’s more streamlined… Also the dev of lutris seems quite toxic and isn’t good with making friends in the scene :D

Check out bottles, there you can easily run your cracked games