Where does “just change the extension to .png” fit in this chart?
Pure evil
what about recreating the image pixel by pixel from scratch?
You’d first have to destroy and re-create the universe. So probably evil.
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Neutral eldritch
F2 -> backspace backspace backspace -> “png” -> enter
Chaotic Stupid 😄
Mint has an “Action” for that, what does that make me?
actually lawful good, imagemagick and ffmpeg barely do anything different in this case, and the python script uses imagemagick if I know PIL right
They keep implementing things I did years ago.
Rename file extension to .png
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!!!
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
That’s what the mimetype cult wants you to believe.
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
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.
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.
Why is ffmpeg Chaotic? I use it for video edits sometimes, too. Like if you need to stack videos in rows and columns, FFMPEG is my go-to.
Using the video tool for a single still image is a bit chaotic, but it’s still a tool made for the job so it’s good. Chaotic Good. Makes sense to me.
It’s a hugely powerful tool.
However, as we all know, some people treat the terminal as if it is the very inky blackness, in which, writhes the tentacles of C’thulu itself.
I use imagemagick, but the commands changed recently and I don’t use it often enough to remember the new ones.
Have they? I’ve been using the same bash script for a decade now without change.
I needed to crop a couple of images a few days ago and completely forgot about graphical editors. I spent like 10 minutes repeatedly using imagemagick with slightly tweaked parameters until I liked the crop
I needed to do the same, but for 6500 images. Worked out great.
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).
