Software Endorsements

[General Emílio Médici]

I have a deep and seething hatred of .webp and similar fucking garbage image formats whose only purpose is the make my life hell when I wanna share a image I found on the internet.

Is there a good simple program I can keep on my computer to convert these atrocities into formats useful for human beings? I hate having to go onto sites to convert it every time I run into one of them. Something like HandBreak, but for pictures.

 

[seri0us]

I have a deep and seething hatred of .webp and similar fucking garbage image formats whose only purpose is the make my life hell when I wanna share a image I found on the internet.

Is there a good simple program I can keep on my computer to convert these atrocities into formats useful for human beings? I hate having to go onto sites to convert it every time I run into one of them. Something like HandBreak, but for pictures.

Gimp

 

[General Emílio Médici]

... I feel stupid not realizing Gimp can do that. Should have realized it.

 

[DavidS877]

I have a deep and seething hatred of .webp and similar fucking garbage image formats whose only purpose is the make my life hell when I wanna share a image I found on the internet.

Is there a good simple program I can keep on my computer to convert these atrocities into formats useful for human beings? I hate having to go onto sites to convert it every time I run into one of them. Something like HandBreak, but for pictures.

Do you have a Linux or WSL or a Mac or know how to use the Windows Command line? I just use graphicsmagick or imagemagick.
"gm convert -resize 1024x stupid.webp sneed.jpg"
"convert -resize 1024x stupid.webp sneed.jpg"
or just leave out the resize.

http://www.graphicsmagick.org/

https://imagemagick.org/

Or your local package manager.

 

[Betonhaus]

I have a deep and seething hatred of .webp and similar fucking garbage image formats whose only purpose is the make my life hell when I wanna share a image I found on the internet.

Is there a good simple program I can keep on my computer to convert these atrocities into formats useful for human beings? I hate having to go onto sites to convert it every time I run into one of them. Something like HandBreak, but for pictures.

Microsoft Paint?

 

[General Emílio Médici]

Microsoft Paint?

Works for some but not all. When I need to turn a png into jpeg or gif into png it does fine. GIMP is gonna do well for it.

 

[jeff7989]

Back when I used Windows IrfanView was my go-to image viewer and simple manipulator. It supports a shitton of file formats, and it's a relic of old times when programmers wrote quick and simple software.

 

[Flaming Dumpster]

Back when I used Windows IrfanView was my go-to image viewer and simple manipulator. It supports a shitton of file formats, and it's a relic of old times when programmers wrote quick and simple software.

IrfanView is good, but you gotta install the plugins if you want WebP support. https://www.irfanview.com/plugins.htm

 

[AnOminous]

Is there a good simple program I can keep on my computer to convert these atrocities into formats useful for human beings? I hate having to go onto sites to convert it every time I run into one of them. Something like HandBreak, but for pictures.

There are a number of "Save as" extensions that let you right click and download as whatever you like.

 

[Saddam Hussain Obama]

IrfanView is good, but you gotta install the plugins if you want WebP support. https://www.irfanview.com/plugins.htm

WEBP is evil

 

[888Flux]

https://github.com/calebj/LibbieOffice

install the needful

 

[AnOminous]

Ventoy. Yesterday I waged Total Retard War on my own computer, turning a minor problem into a major problem and then all but bricking it. I was trying for hours to create a bootable Windows install USB stick on everything from MacOS to Mint, and they all steadfastly refused to work.

Ventoy gets rid of this bullshit. You just install it on a USB stick and then instead of bothering with creating a bunch of USB sticks for different purposes, you drag the ISOs over and they all pop up in a menu when you boot the USB. How the hell didn't I know about this already?

Free but would be worth buying.

 

[Betonhaus]

Ventoy. Yesterday I waged Total Retard War on my own computer, turning a minor problem into a major problem and then all but bricking it. I was trying for hours to create a bootable Windows install USB stick on everything from MacOS to Mint, and they all steadfastly refused to work.

Ventoy gets rid of this bullshit. You just install it on a USB stick and then instead of bothering with creating a bunch of USB sticks for different purposes, you drag the ISOs over and they all pop up in a menu when you boot the USB. How the hell didn't I know about this already?

Free but would be worth buying.

ventoy is amazing. I do find that some older computers really don't like it, but most do. There's a webapp configurator that let's you change the theme and defaults, I set it to use the console interface when booting from mbr

 

[jeff7989]

Ventoy. Yesterday I waged Total Retard War on my own computer, turning a minor problem into a major problem and then all but bricking it. I was trying for hours to create a bootable Windows install USB stick on everything from MacOS to Mint, and they all steadfastly refused to work.

Ventoy gets rid of this bullshit. You just install it on a USB stick and then instead of bothering with creating a bunch of USB sticks for different purposes, you drag the ISOs over and they all pop up in a menu when you boot the USB. How the hell didn't I know about this already?

Free but would be worth buying.

WoeUSB-ng works for me™. Never had issue with it.

https://github.com/WoeUSB/WoeUSB-ng

 

[AnOminous]

WoeUSB-ng works for me™. Never had issue with it.

https://github.com/WoeUSB/WoeUSB-ng

Always been able (at least eventually) to get unetbootin, rufus, or just the raw dump dd method (slow but reliable) to work but not this time. Pretty sure it's some goofy thing I did with UEFI when I first set it up but the Ventoy USB boots fine in any mode.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

I could have sworn Ventoy was dead and abandoned, but it seems fine. Huh.

 

[BMO_]

Is Lokinet good?
I'm tired of getting blocked while browsing the Internet with Tor

 

[Sperg Coalition]

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I've been using this extension and I can attest that it's really good, coupled with uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock, browsing YouTube becomes much nicer.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

Is Lokinet good?
I'm tired of getting blocked while browsing the Internet with Tor

I have never even seen LokiNet work. It sounds interesting but every time I tried it there was fuck all happening and I couldn't go anywhere.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

I have a deep and seething hatred of .webp and similar fucking garbage image formats whose only purpose is the make my life hell when I wanna share a image I found on the internet.

Is there a good simple program I can keep on my computer to convert these atrocities into formats useful for human beings? I hate having to go onto sites to convert it every time I run into one of them. Something like HandBreak, but for pictures.

It's been mentioned but IrfanView. Download the plugin pack(it might be integrated into the latest version along with avif, haven't checked), press ctrl+s and just add .jpg at the end. Now you have a jpg, doesn't matter what the original format was.

You can also batch convert images like this by pressing 'b' and specifying only .webp and it will chew through everything in a folder, make it whatever image format you want, then spit it out wherever you want it.

It can also resize images which is useful for atrocious super high-res phone screenshots of twitter. Ctrl+r, 500px is wide enough, ctrl+s add .jpg to the name. Boom. Couldn't be easier. Fantastic program.