Where does “just change the extension to .png” fit in this chart?
Pure evil
Now I’m curious if the chatgpt way works
With how reliable and useless AI is, it would probably just rename the file with .png on the end.
what about reacreating the image puxel by pixel from scratch?
You’d first have to destroy the universe. So probably evil.
I was expecting to see a hex-editor or something as one of the options.
Neutral eldritch
Found the embedded systems engineer!
It’s missing the “take a screenshot on your mobile phone” (which drives me nuts when people do this instead of sending me the link or the original photo).
“Take a bad picture of the PC screen” is also missing
lol you triggered me hard
But to be honest sometimes the Google app is bugged and it doesn’t let you save the image, no matter how many times you open the long-tap menu and tap on “Save image”. It makes me furious.
That’s a bug? I thought they had done it on purpose
Look at bottom centre
Bottom centre is like taking another phone to photograph the one displayed on your phone.
No wonder it’s pure evil.
Removed by mod
I’m using Xnview’s shell extension to convert images to PNGs, what am I?
chaotic neutral and proud of it
For one or two images, I am true neutral. If it is a whole set, anything but lawful good would be stupid or Windows user level.
If on Windows, there’s Irfanview and its batch processing.
Or, you know, ImageMagick…
Taking a pic with your phone sounds chaotic evil to me
Yes, that’s the only one that destroys the image.
What’s always missing is nomacs - the best image viewing and light editing toolkit app on linux.
Nobody ever mentions it. Why is that? Why? It supports all the formats. It has the best slideshow options. The UI is as minimal or as informative as you set it to be. WHYYYYYY DOES NOBODY TALK ABOUT IT??? Who paid you to be silenced?
(and yes, it can convert the formats)
https://github.com/nomacs/nomacs
For some reason it’s not included in Debian Bookworm (currently stable) and Bullseye. It previously was in Buster and will hopefully again be in Trixie (currently trsting).
There is a flatpak at least
Thanks.
It reminds me of IrfanView, but I’m sure it’s better than that
This sounds pretty sweet and it’s indeed the first time I’ve ever heard about it so… keep spreading that word brother???
I used it for a long time years ago and it is indeed very great. But its only maintainer stopped around 2021/2022 because he got a new job or something along that line. As far i see he partially returned later but is still looking for more contributors. so the future of the project is not really secure. e.g. see https://github.com/nomacs/nomacs/issues/987
So more eyes on Nomacs would be indeed good.
It’s so crazy to me that guy was unemployed and is spending his days making a high quality software product for free
TBH, that’s his résumé
Doesn’t really seem like the sort of thing that needs regular updates though. Should keep working fine while Qt6 is available.
I’m absolutely in the market for a new image viewer. One with a sensible gallery / (sub-) folder view.
I’ll try nomacs out today.
Sure I use imagemagick but I prefer the mogrify command, because I take no prisoners. Is that still considered lawful good?
Where on the chart does studying spec sheets and writting rasterization algorithms in c fall?
I would probably put that as being similar to the “Chaotic Good” with ffmpeg.
Where is “changing the file type extension” in the name?
That has to be Chaotic Evil.
that would be renaming the file extension but keeping the same format opening it up in an app that breaks it totally, then saving that and sharing it with a Windows user and spending an hour with them trying to make it work because they have to see it!!!
You’ll quickly learn which software trusts extensions and which uses MIME type detection
You know who used to do that? Microsoft Teams. I would take photos with my phone and upload them via Teams, Teams would display them just fine but saving them teams would name them .png (even though they were jpeg) and I couldn’t open them with the gnome image viewer (this is also how I found out that the image viewer prioritizes extension over magic byte (which seems stupid to me).
That’s not on the chart because it doesn’t convert it. It only renames it. A JPEG ending with .png is still a JPEG
One could argue that they have converted it, but it was done poorly.
In a similar sense, the screenshots and phone photos are not conversions. They are entirely new images.
That’s what the mimetype cult wants you to believe.
This is the first time i got lawful evil in one of these kinds of memes
Decode the image with ffmpeg, pipe it to imagemagick and encode it again
download from chrome
go into files
select file
press f2
change webp to png
die inside
people hate webp but the issue is more on windows and partially on Google
Google killed jpegxl (webp but compatible) which would’ve made everything easy to work with, and Microsoft didn’t even bother adding webp as a format which is just crazy
