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.
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Taking screenshots of everything is no different than elders printing out emails.
Submitted 9 months ago by fleebleneeble@reddthat.com to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Meltdown@lemmy.world 9 months ago
LodeMike@lemmy.today 9 months ago
Some applications don’t let you save photos because their assholes. Instagram did this when it first came out.
Shotgun_Alice@lemmy.world 9 months 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 9 months ago
My mom once photocopied a picture from an ipad. I didn’t even know that’s possible
FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 9 months ago
OCR makes this strategy way more useful than it otherwise would be haha
lath@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Printing your bills and documents can save you a lot of trouble when needed.
houstoneulers@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Lies! sobs
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 9 months ago
These days elders are taking screenshots of emails and printing the screenshots (and wondering why they’re cut off).
Widdershins@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Sometimes I screenshot and crop a picture I want to save if there is no alternative to saving it as a .webp
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
When pixel count doesn’t matter, that’s probably the easiest way to do it.
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
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.
redfox@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
I have done that more times then I count or when I website won't let me download something.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 months ago
I only take screenshots of things I can’t directly save. Or video games. This is the last thing saved in my phone’s screenshot folder:
db2@lemmy.world 9 months ago
If that were in my phone you wouldn’t get me to share that at gunpoint.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 9 months ago
You dont want to know what OP wouldn’t share from his phone at gunpoint.
Slovene@feddit.nl 9 months ago
Get off my lawn!
fleebleneeble@reddthat.com 9 months ago
No I will not. I will take a picture of it to then take a screenshot, just cuz.
Slovene@feddit.nl 9 months ago
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.
reattach@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Out of curiosity, what do you take screenshots of? That’s not something I’ve heard of people doing compulsively.
CCMan1701A@startrek.website 9 months ago
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.
fleebleneeble@reddthat.com 9 months ago
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.
IncogCyberspaceUser@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’m the same way, but I only have about 6k Screenshots, so I have a lot of work ahead of me.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
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.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
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.
Semester3383@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yeah, no. Some text services and websites can/do remove content, so you might not be able to return to something at a later date without saving it locally. Once an email has been received on your end, that’s it: you have the email locally (or at least in your email provider); it can no longer be removed by the person that sent it.
If I screenshot an exchange on Bluesky where someone is saying wildly racist shit, they can later block me, delete the top-level comment and all the sub-comments, but I’ll still have that digital proof. If someone gets doxxed on Reddit and you screenshot it, you’ve got that forever, even when Reddit deletes the doxxing five minutes later. (They did that with someone that found out who Administrative Results was, and posted all the links backing up their claims. Also, Admin Results in a shitty person, and that’s why he and Garand Thumb/Mike Jones get along so we…)