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Seems useful at times, I had a game start up in Chinese recently, and had to use Google translate from my phone camera to figure out how to change it back to English.

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[-] LifeLikeLady@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

As someone who's never had a problem "being the product" I've since changed my tune thanks to AI.

The less software I have spying on me, the better.

(I'm sure they're not straight up spying but you have to be screen grabbing / recording to make this work)

[-] HoloPengin@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Seems neat, though I don't have a use for it.

It'd be much more helpful to me if it just used those OCR boxes to provide mouse-over dictionary lookups via yomitan rather than a translation.

Right now I use Google Lens for that, but that means I'm sharing selected text into a dictionary app or chatgpt, or gambling on Google search just giving me the JP->EN definition with no prompting besides the word itself.

[-] Lemmchen@feddit.org -1 points 6 days ago

I've literally never had a use for something like this.

[-] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 2 points 5 days ago

Oh i have this is gonna be awesome for untranslated games

[-] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 days ago

Yeah, it's definitely more for a specific groups of people, such as those who play old untranslated emulated titles and such.

[-] Lemmchen@feddit.org 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Hm, I see. Like old Japan exclusive titles. Haven't thought about that.
A bit weird to implement it as Decky plugin then, because basically everything on Steam is available in English.

[-] apotheotic@beehaw.org 2 points 5 days ago

You can play non-steam games on a deck

[-] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 2 points 5 days ago

Its basically for emulators

[-] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 days ago

I've also run into games on steam that specifically failed to identify my language on Linux. I can generally tell what options I need to pick to change a language back to English, but some langauges like Chinese and Korean are difficult to to navigate.

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