I'm glad Fedora has GNOME as default. The KDE spin appears to be well-maintained enough for those interested to enjoy it.
Pop! OS
FYI, the Pixel 8's processor is certainly less efficient than the S23's. If it is reportedly getting better battery life, that's likely software related.
It sounds like it is time to defederate. We'll miss the instance but we understand why it must be done
Let me know when you can use RCS on an Android phone without Google Play Services outside of Google Messages
Sounds like you're entrenched. If that's the case, don't look at Linux until you've accepted that things aren't going to be identical to Windows & there will be drawbacks to your workflow as well as benefits
I don't think I'd be the same person without Adventure Time
I think if Reddit was really good, 90% of the people here would not have a good reason to use Lemmy. I was on Lemmy before the blackout & it wasn't great; had I plugged it then, many would be reluctant to switch. Now, it is amazing, and Reddit ensured that Lemmy got a nice influx of users to make that happen :)
Have you tried Molly FOSS, or are you using the standard one with proprietary dependencies? Is there a meaningful difference in day to day functionality?
If you look into it a bit more, the resistance around WebP is mainly because it has some crippling weaknesses. I did some visual quality testing ( here, here & here ) & I (as well as many others independently) have found that for photographic images, WebP & JPEG are equals, & Google's messaging that lossy WebP meaningfully improves upon JPEG for general visual quality per bit is misleading. That being said, WebP has some important strengths that are not often acknowledged. In addition to transparency & (really good) animation support, it also has:
- a lossless mode that often outperforms PNG
- great nonphotographic compression (though AVIF outperforms it here)
- decent compression of photographic sources at lower fidelity, where it actually starts to beat JPEG by a good amount
- Totally royalty free
WebP's main weaknesses are:
- not better than JPEG for photographic images at useful fidelity
- Confusing messaging from Google, may have led to slow adoption
- Based on a video codec, so no progressive decode (even JPEG has this)
- limited to 8 BPC (lossy & lossless)
- superseded by JPEG-XL & AVIF, which are both pretty much better at everything
JPEG-XL in particular is very promising. It faces hostility from Google but has an incredible breadth of features & strong compression performance, as well as Apple ecosystem-wide adoption on the way with the upcoming versions of macOS, iOS, ipadOS, etc. It is also royalty free. AVIF is better than WebP at everything except lossless, too.
Feeling any which way about WebP, it is still a shame to see it transcoded to PNG. All that wasted potential ...
Pixel 7 on CalyxOS
We need more nuclear power ASAP