is it a formatting step that an image goes through when uploaded? I’m tired of converting image after image back into jpg, so if there’s like a step I can take to avoid it being a webp, it would help to know

  • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    You can ‘change’ the extension of any file whose innards match the file type you’re ‘changing’ it to.

    Under the hood, nothing changes. Windows opens it anyway because it reads the actual file data and basically assumes you must be an idiot.

    e: change the file extension of a jpg to txt. Windows shrugs and says okay, if that’s what you really want, and shows you the code. Knock yourself out, it says, I’ll show you what I can, but it doesn’t convert the file.

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      1 year ago

      Sorry – I know all of that, yes. I’m just saying it wouldn’t surprise me if in the future they tried to make it so changing extension changed the format too lol