is it a formatting step that an image goes through when uploaded? I’m tired of converting image after image back into jpg, so if there’s like a step I can take to avoid it being a webp, it would help to know

        • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
          61·
          1 year ago

          You can ‘change’ the extension of any file whose innards match the file type you’re ‘changing’ it to.

          Under the hood, nothing changes. Windows opens it anyway because it reads the actual file data and basically assumes you must be an idiot.

          e: change the file extension of a jpg to txt. Windows shrugs and says okay, if that’s what you really want, and shows you the code. Knock yourself out, it says, I’ll show you what I can, but it doesn’t convert the file.

        • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
          41·
          1 year ago

          No it doesn’t.

          This may be hard to understand if you don’t know how it works, but nothing is being converted. It’s like opening a .docx in a .txt editor. It will show you the data it can, and there’s lots of crossover in image formats.

          Sorry, I can’t explain it better without getting more technical than you can probably understand, but it’s not converting anything.

            • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
              61·
              1 year ago

              Sorry, I didn’t mean to be condescending. Glad it made you laugh, tho.

              I’m only trying to educate because most people seem to think everything should be a jpg or think it’s all magic (this thread is full of that), and this is one of the few topics I know quite a lot about.

              Didn’t mean to offend.

              e: rereading my last comment, I see what you mean. What I meant was it takes understanding of several scientific papers detailing the algorithms (which took me a bit to understand), and I can’t easily condense that into a comment online. Sorry for how that came across.

                • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
                  41·
                  1 year ago

                  I don’t miss Reddit. XD

                  You shouldn’t have to care, honestly. It should just work.

                  I had to learn all this because I was chief designer for one of the main companies that came up with these formats, but nobody else should have to care about this shit. The fact that this is a post in 2023* makes me feel like we’ve failed.

                  You shouldn’t even have to think about this.