Just went to the bother of taking 12 full-screen screenshots only to discover that if you take a full-screen window screenshot with Windows 10's "Snipping Tool" it is defaced with a single-pixel fragment of the Snipping Tool UI. Every time. All these screenshots are now potentially useless. This is the thing Microsoft aggressively deprecated the old "Print Screen" tech for.
I am continually shocked that Microsoft is a real company that actually delivers the software they deliver.
Okay yeah the single-line defacing is also present if you do a normal full-screen screenshot instead of window-selecting. I… I don't know what to do here. Like I do not know how to proceed. I have just discovered my operating system does not have a screenshot functionality that is able to accurately represent the screen at the moment of screenshot.
@mcc windows-G will load the "game bar" overlay, which has a much better (eg HDR aware) screenshot function via windows-alt-printscr
@directhex So I feel like I've gone to quite a lot of trouble to uninstall the game bar but just out of curiosity is this still usable if my keyboard does not have a printscr button
@mcc I think there's a button you can click in the game bar.
But if you intentionally removed the functionality, the functionality is removed
@directhex I assumed I would not need a game bar to take screenshots because I was under the misapprehension that the basic operating system contained a screenshot tool. I am now learning this is not and never was accurate
@mcc I learned to love the game bar because the snipping tool sucks if you have an HDR display (it blows out brightness in images totally)
@directhex I continue to be very surprised that windows 10 is a real operating system and I am not in Linux
@mcc @directhex windows actually do some scheduling task with the game bar, only for hybrid cpus (as far as I know). So if you have a morden Intel cpu, or an upcoming AMD cpu I would recommend installing the game bar.
@ekg @directhex I do not understand what you are saying.
@mcc @directhex on morden Intel cpus you have e-cores as well as p-cores, the game bar picks what process is placed on what kind of core. Without the game bar all processes share all cores.
@mcc @directhex yeah, every upcoming cpu I know of has some kind of core differential. This is the best source I found on quick notice (25 minutes in) https://youtu.be/9gCzXdLmjPY
@ekg @directhex I shall purchase an FPGA and run linux on a RISCV softcore
@mcc That actually slaps, you should absolutely do that.
@j3rn I am actually trying.
The cheap FPGA dev board I got has some problems and I'm putting the project on hold until this better one I ordered comes in tho.
@mcc Very cool! I've been thinking about getting a RISC-V board for a few years now, but my rationale of "Just seems kinda cool, dunnit?" doesn't quite justify alpha stage hardware that will soon become e-waste. Makes me wish I knew (literally anything) about FPGAs 😅
@ekg @directhex I see. I have heard of this feature, and I am going to be trying very hard in future not to buy a CPU which has it, because it doesn't seem to make any sense and operating systems do not seem to support it in any logical way. although I guess at some point it will become inescapable.