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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by munchler on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @03:01PM (#44302634)
My problem with HEIC is that if you convert it to another format, it looks different from the original, for reasons that I don't understand. I switched my iPhone back to JPEG to avoid that.
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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by jorl17 on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @03:18PM (#44302811)
Perhaps due to HDR handling?
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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by spookie on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @07:57PM (#44305279)
Only Gwenview on the Linux side is able to render them properly somehow
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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by dangus on Thursday June 19, 2025 @02:12PM (#44321078)
I have increasingly noticed very little reason to convert them to JPEG.
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