Maybe it's just a local phrase... When somebody makes you happy like if they gave you a bday gift.
Whoa Sinead is dead? Damn. A friend of mine was completely obsessed with her. Before the internet was widely available, I once printed all her songs lyrics for him from the web, and totally made him a new birthday.
like running small businesses out
Stuff like this, which you dismiss as just a detail, may actually be the root of the problem. This isn't specific to Walmart, nor are people hating large companies just for being large, nor rich people just for being rich.
The issue is how it affects the rest of the society and businesses. There's a reason why there are anti-trust laws and such.
The first 3 are Android foss apps, the last one is a webapp. Arctius was known as Fennec before, Voyager as wefwef.
Unfortunately there are lots of jpegs resaved or screenshotted to png out there, so that doesn't help if you don't know the history of the file.
Heck, there are even lots such pngs with their extension changed to jpg, which you might not notice unless you check for details or your image viewer differentiates between various formats.
This whole thing has been a mystery for me for months and I couldn't I figure out where do such botched files come from, until I realised it's probably because people can't handle webps and so are making a mess of things.
Lemmy's official conversions is 124 kB. Next time I'm making a meme, I'll see how small I can make the size with webp. Should be better when I'm working from my original and not an already compressed jpeg.
Ok I'm not sure if XnView can automatically save a screenshot to a file (I don't have a PC with me), but there are certainly lots of tools that can help with that too.
Yes. The problem is getting developers/companies to support anything beyond than just the basics. There's enough formats that could work, but if the big players only support these formats, everything else is secondary. Just like many music players still play only mp3.
Haha welcome to my another session of bitching about ancient media formats.
Anyway I'll just recommend XnView to you too. 500 supported image formats, so you can imagine why I get so pissy when people try to convince me that jpg and gif forevaaaa and that webp or whatever is difficult to implement. Maybe give LWF (Lura Wave Format) a shot, that stuff has been around for 20+ years too and can blow jpg out of the water.
Oh XnView can do screenshots and cropping and stuff too. A free program that's been around for 25 years, and for DOS before that. And yet the mainstream sticks to whatever nonsense is the default. It's heartbreaking.
I don't know the technical aspects of webp, but as long as it's just another image format, any application that works with images should be able to just support it with an import/export filter. Again, XnView supports 500 formats, so it can't be impossible.
And all my apps support webp so well, I never realized there could be a problem with it except when I heard that Windows is starting to support it and I realised that oh yea, them being slow again.
Again it's not just webp, there's been a ton of attempts to bring better image formats, all the way back to jpeg2000. Some people just don't want to do any amount of work beyond the basics.
We've had the same problem with sound. Lots of good formats in the last 20 years - ogg, flac, aac - yet you can still find things that only play mp3, often only up to a certain bitrate. That's not a good reason why everyone should forever stick only to mp3.
Yet there's never been a problem with adopting new video formats, and that stuff is way harder to implement, often requiring hardware support to be feasible. We're not sticking to 30 years old Real Media and QuickTime. Images deserve better too.
There is, exactly because png is made for strict rgb colorspace. Especially today when videos can be in HDR and with all kinds of color correction shenanigans, so which you won't get back once you try to put the PNG back into the video.
But I'm not a video editor, so I don't know what still format is best suited for this. I imagine real editors can deal with it, and for regular people who just make screenshots for memes, it's good enough. As I said, png is still a good enough format, but let's not use it for stuff like converting webp photos for further sharing.
From my point of view, gif is evil!
(Seriously, I have a real light-axe to grind when it comes to gif. I can live with jpeg, but the 80MB 10-second crappy gifs people keep sharing, make me lose my Jedi patience.)
I plan to, it's funny how the first game is quite common knowledge, but I only learned about a sequel in some "10 games you didn't know have sequels" or such article.
See, that's fair. I don't know why people can't say so. It's time to name and shame companies that can't keep up with the times.
I'm not saying webp is the be-all end-all, but goddamn we need to start using more modern compression for things. Especially gif, which is a fucking horrible format for what people use it today.
I still remember when Internet Explorer wouldn't support png. It takes pressure to get crappy companies to move their ass.
In regards to both Windows and IrfanView, there's a reason why I've been using XnView for 25 years now, with its 500 supported image formats, including webp of course.
I'm in the middle of Europe and it's not bad, the summer is actually pretty nice for my bad back that screams whenever it's cold. At most we had 38 I think, which is manageable. Now it's been raining for 2 days, and the random pressure variations are less to my liking.
On the hotter days it's just important to bring water everywhere and keep in the shadows wherever possible. I imagine it gets difficult in areas where the temps are much higher.
Well, at least you now know, so that's a few less png screenshots of photos in existence.
I remember IrfanView well, is that no longer developed? I've always preferred XnView which still exists and with its support for 500 image formats, ya'll never never have a problem opening anything that has valid image data in it.
We thought it would be a nice idea to not just post news, but also help share some human element directly with discussion topics every week or so.
So, first topic of the week: How are you handling the weather? The northern hemisphere is being scorched, many places being over 40 °C for weeks, or even over 50. (50 °C = 122 °F.)
Humans have survived some ice ages and cold periods, but we aren't well biologically equipped to handle heat for long periods.
I plan to finally play Hotel Dusk for DS. I just need to finally hack my 3DS. I have a cartridge, but it's in another castle house.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2207898
> Did you ever hear the tragedy of WebP The Efficient? I thought not. It’s not a story the GIF gang would tell you. It’s an image legend. > > WebP was a new format of pictures, so efficient and so lightweight, it could use modern compression to influence the web pages to actually load faster… > > It had such a knowledge of the user's needs that it could even keep transparency and animations from dying. > > The power of modern computing is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. > > It became so widespread… The only thing we had to be afraid of, was people insisting on using formats from the 90's, which eventually, of course, they did. > > Unfortunately, we didn't teach the noobs everything we knew about compression, then the noobs killed the format by converting it to PNG and sharing that. > > Ironic. We could save the web from being too slow, but not from the users.
Did you ever hear the tragedy of WebP The Efficient? I thought not. It’s not a story the GIF gang would tell you. It’s an image legend.
WebP was a new format of pictures, so efficient and so lightweight, it could use modern compression to influence the web pages to actually load faster…
It had such a knowledge of the user's needs that it could even keep transparency and animations from dying.
The power of modern computing is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.
It became so widespread… The only thing we had to be afraid of, was people insisting on using formats from the 90's, which eventually, of course, they did.
Unfortunately, we didn't teach the noobs everything we knew about compression, then the noobs killed the format by converting it to PNG and sharing that.
Ironic. We could save the web from being too slow, but not from the users.
I don't mean that kind of love. And if you do, mark as nsfw where appropriate.
A week-old video, I just wasn't paying attention.
(I'm personally not endorsing Pixels for anything except alternative OSs. But foldable phones seem to be the only reasonable way to have dual screens on a portable emulation device at this time.)
I admit I don't quite get what is supposed to appear as the point of it.
But it seems like an example of a subscription service where a few people caving and using it make things worse for everybody.
Verification as a concept definitely makes sense. I can even imagine a one-time fee for it, as there may be some associated costs. Fair.
But once you start charging a subscription fee, it absolutely stops being a service for the good of the community, and starts just being a thing you want to sell as much as possible. Meaning the standards for verification drop, possibly to zero (like on Twitter), and the whole system loses any actual meaning. But people who do have a need for verification will need to keep paying too, just for appearance.
I think it's a lesson/example in why subscriptions suck, and why is it generally a good idea to discourage people from signing up to subscriptions like this. Even if it's "just a couple bucks". Eventually you'll just be paying for a pointless, if not an actively hostile system.
Gee, just charge for dark mode like Snapchat, or non-ugly icons like Reddit. Just don't mess up something essential people rely on?
The price of an individual YouTube Premium subscription is increasing $2 to $13.99 per month in the US. YouTube has yet to...
This is just a reminder, if you think some subscription from a gigacorp is a good deal. It even might be, for a while. Then the price will go up and up once people get used to the idea.
It's one of the problems of subscription services in general.
Yes, I know. Raising prices is and has always been a normal part of life. The thing is, the more services are subscription-based, the more these price hikes can be bothersome.
If the cost of toilet paper goes up more than you find comfortable, you can at least to try to budget it better and use less of it. Maybe you can stockpile it or borrow some. If it were a subscription toilet paper, you either have it or don't have it. Or maybe you'll get paper that prints ads onto your...
I'm getting silly. You get my point. Subscriptions can make sense, but also be a major trap.
Final Fantasy has no small share of iconic battle tunes, each illiciting a different kind of nostalgia depending on when and where you played each entry. Final Fantasy VIII’s Force Your Way is no doubt one of the most memorable to many of you, and now it has a new...
cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/FinalFantasy/t/221667
> Final Fantasy has no small share of iconic battle tunes, each illiciting a different kind of nostalgia depending on when and where you played each entry. Final Fantasy VIII’s Force Your Way is no doubt one of the most memorable to many of you, and now it has a new official guitar cover!
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