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[–] cornshark@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"How dare they invent a more efficient image encoding! Back in my day we had bmp and we liked it!" - grandpa simpson

[–] tauonite@lemmy.world 14 points 23 hours ago

So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org -2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, BMP does still work as an uncompressed, artifact-free format.

[–] BunScientist@lemmy.zip 13 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

you can have uncompressed png too

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Sure. But you use bmp when you want to nuke your drive space for no real reason.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 5 points 18 hours ago

Wdym? This guy is still using punch cards