Gregory's Serverusing linux will save u from microsoft recall, but only in the sense that microsoft's best engineers can't work out how to record your screen in wayland
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@hipsterelectron they're installing gnome in the background, running your usual session in a fullscreen window, and then just using gnome's built in screen recorder  @jacqueline background gnomes sound super cute maybe i will simply have to amass a larger gnome force for a preemptive strike  @jacqueline yes, my batshit tiling window manager is a defense mechanism  @jacqueline last I checked using a popular text-expander app wasn't supported in Wayland, there is hope! @harshad @jacqueline espanso? My issue with it is there's no rpm or Flatpak that I could find for any recent version, and no build instructions for my distro, and I don't care enough to sink the time into figuring it out. They say that it works on Wayland in recent releases, but I can't try those out.  @baloo @jacqueline Oh, right. The desktop portal... The portal for wlroots, the portal chosen specially to screen share on wlroots, wlroots’ portal. the one I forgot to install 💀 @Eclipse @jacqueline it's actually quite nice underneath. This is a service exposed on dbus, it grabs the backing buffer from the GPU, exposes the flow over a pipewire stream and replies back to the requestor with the stream url. @baloo @jacqueline I’m aware, I learned a stupid amount about how portals work when trying to make my own file portal for fun @Eclipse @jacqueline I want to make the output of OBS expose itself as a portal at some point. @jacqueline@chaos.social microsoft edge rolls out recall for linux but it only runs under xorg    @jacqueline To be fair, part of the problem is that recording the screen involves the GPU. And GPUs are cursed.   @jacqueline the mnt pocket reform operator handbook is out and mention three apps for screen grabbing under wayland I believe :)   @jacqueline  @kianryan @jacqueline having tried to do this recently … 🫠 (I wanted to stream pixel data from the screen edges to make an ambilight Steam Deck)   @jacqueline @JoSuus Influential linux developers (I wont say good) work for MS and are trying to make Linux more Windozy and less Unixy (Embrace. Extend, Extinguish) so I bet they already have. I don’t use Linux either!  @jacqueline it's called security. For the ones eating crayon at the back of the class: that's a feature. |
@jacqueline still not safe from their worst engineers