The_Decryptor

JXL can do lossy images (like JPEG) and lossless ones (like PNG), and on average it'll produce smaller file sizes than both (While beating JPEG quality wise). The killer feature is that it can do lossless recompression of existing JPEG files and shave off about 20% of the file size, and it's reversible so you can turn those JXL files back into JPEG images for existing software.

The downside is that it was created by Google Research (among others), but the Chrome team made AVIF instead and decided that's what they'd support and nothing else.

At least Safari supports it.

I switched a year ago, after trying and failing multiple times over the years whenever I gave it a try.

1. Linux has massively improved, systemd is a lot cleaner than the mess of disparate shell scripts it displaced. Network Manager is also a lot nicer now than I remember it being when it was first introduced into Red Hat.
2. Windows hasn't, in a lot of ways it was actually regressing. I used to get multiple shell crashes a week with no insight as to why, friends would claim it was just me but then receive an update and start having similar crashes. Also noticeable UI issues that went unfixed for multiple revisions, made it felt cheap.
3. MS went all in on AI garbage and was jamming it into everything, kept getting popup notifications and the like to try Copilot, notifications went from being useful to just being an ad delivery mechanism.
4. Gaming on Linux massively improved, last time I tried it OpenGL support was a mess. Now OpenGL is very mature, and all the D3D translation stuff uses Vulkan which has been rock solid for me. I've found games run better than they did on Windows on the same hardware, and the only game I've had an issue with was Destiny 2, which is intentional on the devs behalf (Luckily the game's boring now)

I find I'm a lot more willing to let issues slide though, like I've had some Thunar crashes which I'm cool with since there's like 4 devs maintaining it, vs. the multi-billion dollar company working on Explorer which I expect better from. Also unsurprisingly the only actual shop-stopper issue I've had was with a memory leak in the Nvidia drivers, the actual FLOSS stuff has been great.

That last screenshot is fantastic

Tons of software meant to run on 32-bit hasn’t been updated to run on 64-bit natively.

32bit only Linux apps are basically non-existent, anything with the source available and maintainers would have been ported at some point in the last 2 decades, otherwise they have very specific technical reasons for being 32bit only (like OBS iiuc), the source has been lost somehow, or it's a proprietary program where the company has no interest (e.g. Valve with Steam)

In fact I think Steam might really be it.

Or Automattic doesn't have enough employees left to implement it

We still do.

For a community called “technology” there’s a pretty strong anti-AI bubble going on here.

Are you surprised people have opinions about technology, in a community dedicated to discussing technology?

Yeah from a quick glance over the spec it's basically just small clarifications, promoting existing extensions (EXIF and APNG) to the core spec, and adding the new HDR metadata chunks.

The HDR stuff will be hit or miss, it's backwards compatible in the sense that a viewer that doesn't understand it will fall back to the ICC profile, but that still requires the viewer to support the (now deprecated) ICC based HDR method. If it doesn't support HDR at all then you're just out of luck since these images just require fundamentally different ways to view them.

MNG tried to do everything (iirc it could even embed links, did play/pause, and seeking, like a static version of Flash), not surprising it didn't catch on. APNG was a simple enough extension that everybody just ended up using that instead (The only browser that doesn't support it being IE and IE-era Edge). Now the W3C is handling PNG, they just accepted that reality and added it to the official spec now.

https://tardis.wiki/wiki/Skin

Why are they all in past-tense?

If everyone has moved on from 32bit, and the old stuff doesn’t change, where is the maintenance requirement?

The problem is that it's not old unchanging code, people want the latest supported version so they can still run their 32-bit binaries with the latest supporting libraries.

And if the upstream developers don't consider 32-bit support important, then it falls on the distro maintainers to patch the code to keep it running in these situations.

Use Zola or Hugo then