Submitted 10 hours ago by fleebleneeble@reddthat.com to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
I am quite a data hoarder, but I take so many screenshots that I’ll probably never look at again, and it occurred to me that this might be my generation’s “printing emails” thing.
OCR makes this strategy way more useful than it otherwise would be haha
Sometimes I screenshot and crop a picture I want to save if there is no alternative to saving it as a .webp
I have done that more times then I count or when I website won't let me download something.
There are web browser addons which can change the export to a png, but if all else fails, imagemagick after saving the image takes less time than screenshotting and cropping.
When pixel count doesn’t matter, that’s probably the easiest way to do it.
These days elders are taking screenshots of emails and printing the screenshots (and wondering why they’re cut off).
Printing your bills and documents can save you a lot of trouble when needed.
Get off my lawn!
No I will not. I will take a picture of it to then take a screenshot, just cuz.
I’ll have you know that I took a screenshot of this and gave it to my greatgrandchildren so now you’re gonna get it.
Out of curiosity, what do you take screenshots of? That’s not something I’ve heard of people doing compulsively.
Maybe that’s just a me thing. Other than just stuff to try and remember for later, it’s usually pretty dumb. Stuff like: items in some online store, images on a search page generally (not downloading anything specific, just snapping a shot from the general view), etc. It’s kinda hard to explain, but let’s just say out of a set of 70,000 pictures, at least 50,000 are screenshots.
I’m the same way, but I only have about 6k Screenshots, so I have a lot of work ahead of me.
I tend to do that with real life objects. For example, I might snap a photo of a price tag in a store, walk over to the next store and compare prices.
I tend to do that with real life objects. For example, I might snap a photo of a price tag in a store, walk over to the next store and compare prices.
I take pictures of things I want to find faster over hunting for emails or text messages while on vacation and there’s maybe spotty Internet. i also do this for cooking directions.
Lies! sobs
Shotgun_Alice@lemmy.world 47 minutes ago
My mom doesn’t know how to save an image to her phone or iPad, so she will use her camera on the phone to photograph something on her iPad to send to my aunt.
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 13 minutes ago
My mom once photocopied a picture from an ipad. I didn’t even know that’s possible