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    submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by ordellrb@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
     
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    [–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)
    */1
    

    Get out. You're fired.

    [–] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    The sysadmin version of

    if(predicate) { return true; } else { return false; }

    [–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    What does that command do?

    [–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    its a cronjob that runs each minute (*/1) in any hour, any day, any month, on any weekday, gnome-screenshot obviously takes a screenshot and outputs it to the given file path and filename, where the filename is written as the current date as string and .png as format

    [–] hitwright@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

    Takes a screenshot every minute and saves it

    [–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago

    Can you search the screenshots with OCR though? That's Recall's main selling point

    [–] widw@ani.social 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

    Am I the only one who honestly thinks Recall is totally useless? I feel like everyone is acting like it's useful and the only thing to debate over is whether it's "worth the security risk". But I feel like it's not even worth anything at all. Even if there was no risk and I was 100% in control I don't think I would ever use such a feature.

    Wouldn't you waste just as much (if not more) time looking through old screenshots, than to just go look up a solution the old fashioned way? Whatever you were looking at is probably still in your browser history too.

    I know the point is it has some AI crap with it, but that still requires you to remember enough information about what you're looking for to filter them. And if you know that much information I think you could probably just find whatever you were looking for again normally.

    [–] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    That's because you know how to find information in a computer quickly and precisely. Recalk is for clueless people. They can ask the computer in plain English.

    [–] Rudee@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

    Its missing the command to forward every screenshot to Microsoft

    [–] ordellrb@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

    Something like: > sftp://telemetry.microsoft.com that would be even better.

    [–] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

    That's not the worst idea ever. Say a screenshot is 10 mb. 10x60x 8 hours =4800mb per work day. 30 days is 150gb worst case scenario. I suppose you could check the previous screenshot and if it's the same, then don't write a new file. Combine that with OCR and a utility to scroll forward and backward through time, it might be a useful tool.

    [–] RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

    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

    [–] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

    I just chose a number haha. That makes it much more feasible then.

    [–] RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

    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.

    [–] kurumin@linux.community 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)
    [–] Inductor@feddit.de 0 points 4 months ago

    Optical Character Recognition. Basically just extracting text from an image.