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Am I crazy or are the "photos" generated? I did have T1800 and it never looked like this. It had a very early very bad grayscale LCD wiht fiddly contrast contro

by rasz 4mo ago

Am I crazy or are the "photos" generated? I did have T1800 and it never looked like this. It had a very early very bad grayscale LCD wiht fiddly contrast control, not a perfect crisp vibrant OLED like this page shows. example how one looks like irl https://allegrolokalnie.pl/oferta/laptop-toshiba-t1800 https://allegrolokalnie.pl/oferta/laptop-toshiba-t1800 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxIc_UVKxvc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxIc_UVKxvc

bor_real 4mo ago
Perhaps a new panel was retrofitted into it?
- rasz 4mo ago
  OLED panel? that would be a bigger hack than this OS :) Either all pictures are AI generated using QEMU templates that were there previously https://github.com/luke8086/gentleos32/commit/d40576226b7020cb307dea5898fc4a686942f984 https://github.com/luke8086/gentleos32/commit/d40576226b7020... or those are real pictured beautified by AI. YT loves doing that to thumbnails, example https://hackaday.com/2026/06/03/hydraulic-drive-for-your-lawn-tractor/#comment-8305444 https://hackaday.com/2026/06/03/hydraulic-drive-for-your-law...
  - luke8086 4mo ago
    The only AI-generated artifact is the cyberpunk wallpaper from the last photo, I'll admit that :) Btw. the QEMU screenshots are still in the repo in https://github.com/luke8086/gentleos32/tree/main/doc/appimg https://github.com/luke8086/gentleos32/tree/main/doc/appimg
luke8086 4mo ago
All the photos are real, though it took me *lots* of time to get them somewhat right. The display on T1800 is indeed "challenging". What helped was: - Letting it warm for a while - Putting windows in the right places, because each one generates its own artifacts - Setting background to dark with the white pattern - Fiddling with the contrast knob and matching it with the right viewing angle - Using 2x zoom To be fair, the default photo app of iPhone 16 automatically reduced some of the artifacts. The only post-processing done myself in GIMP was very basic stuff like adjusting white balance, exposure and contrast. Here you can see a few very quick-n-dirty photos I just took for comparison - https://imgur.com/a/6Xz6vc8 https://imgur.com/a/6Xz6vc8
- rasz 4mo ago
  First photo is what I expected and remember. I still dont know how you managed to arrive at the third one, I call witchcraft! :)

by rasz 4mo ago

bor_real 4mo ago

Perhaps a new panel was retrofitted into it?

rasz 4mo ago
OLED panel? that would be a bigger hack than this OS :) Either all pictures are AI generated using QEMU templates that were there previously https://github.com/luke8086/gentleos32/commit/d40576226b7020cb307dea5898fc4a686942f984 https://github.com/luke8086/gentleos32/commit/d40576226b7020... or those are real pictured beautified by AI. YT loves doing that to thumbnails, example https://hackaday.com/2026/06/03/hydraulic-drive-for-your-lawn-tractor/#comment-8305444 https://hackaday.com/2026/06/03/hydraulic-drive-for-your-law...
- luke8086 4mo ago
  The only AI-generated artifact is the cyberpunk wallpaper from the last photo, I'll admit that :) Btw. the QEMU screenshots are still in the repo in https://github.com/luke8086/gentleos32/tree/main/doc/appimg https://github.com/luke8086/gentleos32/tree/main/doc/appimg

luke8086 4mo ago

All the photos are real, though it took me *lots* of time to get them somewhat right. The display on T1800 is indeed "challenging". What helped was: - Letting it warm for a while - Putting windows in the right places, because each one generates its own artifacts - Setting background to dark with the white pattern - Fiddling with the contrast knob and matching it with the right viewing angle - Using 2x zoom To be fair, the default photo app of iPhone 16 automatically reduced some of the artifacts. The only post-processing done myself in GIMP was very basic stuff like adjusting white balance, exposure and contrast. Here you can see a few very quick-n-dirty photos I just took for comparison - https://imgur.com/a/6Xz6vc8 https://imgur.com/a/6Xz6vc8

rasz 4mo ago
First photo is what I expected and remember. I still dont know how you managed to arrive at the third one, I call witchcraft! :)