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I was taking more about quality than size in this particular comparison. In 1993 you were happy to squeeze through an image in any quality almost.

It goes hand in hand tho.

If you can compress a 50 MPix, 16-bit, high dynamic range image from a modern high-end DSLR to a reasonable size with a better algorithm and format, you'd also have an easier time squeezing a crappy 640x480 pic to an even smaller size. We just couldn't do either so well 30 years ago.

It is more efficient. I thought it's obvious, that's why web sites use it, to save traffic and potentially storage. Hence my comparison to video formats. You don't see YouTube playing videos in Real Media format.

It's also more universal, combining features of jpg, png and gif. Gif especially is a dreadful format for what it's commonly used. It was designed for tiny clipart animations, not HD video clips. Something like x265 can actually be hundreds of times more efficient.

Ok apologies. But you get my point, it's a set of instructions made for actual hardware with built-in samples. I don't think there's any such thing in modern computers even beyond emulation on OS level.

Sound players are made to play sound, not instructions, and most people don't need to play MIDIs. Even so, the actual playback experience then depends on the OS/hardware/whatever, which again is not something you expect from a sound player.

You can always use specific software to play MIDIs, which are better equipped for it with stuff like MIDI font support, instrument selection and other stuff.

Aight

Anyway here's my take on it

Midi is quite literally a text format, and you can open it in anything. It's just a matter of interpretation what comes out of it.

After reading through more comments in this discussion, maybe I have my answer, at least partially. A lot of people here suggest to use extensions and other ways to convert webp from the web to... PNG.

And then that PNG gets shared further...

Oh gawd if that's why so many pngs are on the net... What a way to take a good idea and completely fuck it up. Now instead of a 2MB jpeg or 0.5MB webp we deal with 10MB pngs 🤦‍♂️

You can use swiping on the space bar to move left and right at least.

AnySoftKeyboard has arrow keys and more gestures, but it's not as refined overall imo.

Floris Board has gestures to move around IIRC, but not at the same time as gesture typing, and is lacking word suggestions.

And if you tell someone that it's creepy and they should disable it, they look at you like you're the weird one.

Isn't it funny how the internet is full of Instagram screenshots in PNG, and Twitter screenshots in JPG?

It feels like some extra-dimensional aliens are fucking with us and making everything backwards.

You can put metadata into jpg and mp3 as well, no differences there.

But requirements for audio hasn't changed that much, and overall it's a much older and thus mature technology, that there isn't much left to figure out. Consumer CD format with 16bit 44.1kHz has been around for 40 years, and you don't need much better quality than that. So there isn't much left to figure out.

But images and videos are different. 20 or 30 years ago you didn't need to commonly send 20 MPix HDR photos and HD to 4k videos over the internet. Shoehorning formats that were made for 640x480 pictures and tiny silly clipart animations just doesn't make sense, especially with all the development that's been made in that time. Newer compression techniques can help, but you can only do so much.

That's the version without gesture typing. The fork uses the same name so they can be hard to distinguish.

That sounds logical, but on most operating systems these days the extension is hidden, and/or you need to go through some hoops to change it. So I would think that most people who think that wouldn't even know how to change it.

But more importantly, where do those PNGs come from in the first place? Sure, some are clearly screenshots such as of IG or TT, but there are tons of large PNG images that are clearly photos from cameras that someone just took and resaved as png (and later, or someone else, then renamed to jpg).

I could understand that happening occasionally for a bunch of reasons, but I've encountered this so many times, it's pretty bizarre.

Btw it's something you might not even notice if you aren't using e.g. an image viewer that uses a different icon or background based on actual image type.

You can resize it in settings, at least the height. I have mine set to 80%. Before OB I was using GB and I recall setting it so both looked the same.

Not entirely FOSS, but the Google Play variant of Simple Gallery has a built-in image editor with some basic video tools. It's using a proprietary library so this version isn't on F-Droid.

FlowIt! Is a decent puzzle game.

Okay but that difference is not as critical as with jpg, which are also more abundant. The bigger problem with png is that people use it for things it's not meant or designed for - frame of a video being case in point.

If anything, it just proves how lacking we are in other image formats, when we keep shoehorning clipart formats like png and gif into other duties. Well not lacking as in not having them, but not using them.

I guess you're using Jerboa? Apparently that's a bug between WebView Webkit and the AOSP keyboard (which OB is based on), or something... I don't quite get what's going on...

Aha, that's why it's not on F-Droid. That makes sense.

Still, it doesn't connect to the internet so unless there's something very sneaky Google does in the background, it should be good?

Floris Board afaik has its own implementation of gesture typing, but that's been stuck in beta without word suggestions, so it's not really usable.