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jpegxl actually has pretty good support - affinity, photoshop, gimp, krita, etc. all support it fine

Sorry, 5 graphics programs isn't "support". You need support from the millon mobile apps, web sites and image and web libraries. A format that you can only use by yourself or with a handful professionals is useless in practice.

Ed: look at the list of formats supported by XnView

holding back truly open formats i'd say that doesn't really matter

There's been hundreds of new image formats in the last ~20 years, and none has gotten anywhere.

Even PNG needed a decade for some things to support it properly, and that one really had a brand new massive use case.

People use gif to make videos for crying out loud, and bitch about webp all the time, that's how massive the pushback against new formats is.

Do you really think jpegxl would get anywhere by itself? No, it would be the same as with jpeg2000 and tons of other formats - first supported by a handful of programs, but not used by anyone else and then forgotten.

You're not wrong.

Problem is, it takes a huge brand like Google or Apple to push a new format for something basic like images. Do you know how many alternative image formats exist that have tried to be the next jpg/gif/png? Hundreds.

I just really wish people would stop clinging to these old formats, especially gif. Maybe when the tech giants get some traction with webp, more open alternatives can get popular as well, once people realize that jpg and gif aren't the end of everything, and app developers get off their fat asses and start supporting other formats too. It just needs to start somewhere.

Just like ogg probably wouldn't be a thing if commercial mp3 didn't pave the way, or we probably wouldn't have divx/h264... without Real Media and Quick Time. Signal wouldn't be so popular either without the likes of Skype and Viber.

Of course I'd prefer open, free standards from the start, but you can see how fucking lazy people are (both users and developers) to support new formats.

That said, it's not like webp is closed or anything, so I'm ok with it.

Yea like that

They're really nothing. If it wasn't for the marketing, there'd be nothing of interest. I'm honestly tired of hearing about this brand all the time.

Want to make a phone for techies? Make one with a relockable bootloader, documented hardware features, available spare parts, removable battery and SD card.

Well I hate your stupid png screenshots

Is that your actual experience? Cuz I know piling on Reddit is funny and all, but this seems a smidge exaggerated.

Pretty much, people stick to an ancient format from the stone age and then bitch to people who want to change it.

Get ready to be called names if you say the truth.

Remove apps through adb. There's also an "universal debloater" that can automate it, but I could never make it work.

Sounds like another problem we have thanks to DRM and telemetry.

Means ascend to BSD

Sigh, just when I really switched over to making memes in webp

Maybe don't use programs from 1996

(Or when you do, don't complain that new shit doesn't work.)

Death to gif

Android 6 and 2GB RAM are still pretty sufficient, that should run everything important. I'd try to flash some lightweight ROM (maybe with higher Android) or at least debloat, and just use it normally for whatever I'd use a tablet for.

The Three-body Problem trilogy and The Wandering Earth by Cixin Liu (plus some fanfiction) are the obvious choice.

Recently there was a thread here about Africa-focused sci-fi but I don't remember what that genre is called...

Do you want to buy some templates?

I just remembered that I wanted to make this template a thing and post it for the weekend caption contest. But I'll leave it here instead

Oh I don't think so