Perhaps a new panel was retrofitted into it?

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/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-law...

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

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

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