I feel guilty for taking up >14 MB on that last toot, but the downscaler on my phone didn't seem to have a batch mode. :(

But then again, I think Ad?min is def' gonna be ok with this one ;)

@rl_dane

It's a worthy cause. :)

Also GoToSocial automatically does compression and what not.

@amin

That was the size downloaded (looking at /tmp/tutfile1111111yaddayadda.jpg)

Random aside, why the heck are people still enforcing three-letter extensions? That's so dumb. :P

@ddlyh @rl_dane

Speaking of, the "P" should pronounced as an "F". After all, it stands for "Photographic".

I will die on this hill.

@ddlyh @amin

JFIF is the container format. JPEG is the spec/algorithm.

...as I understand it...

@rl_dane @ddlyh

Strictly speaking, "JPEG" is the name of the group that made the spec. "Joint Photographic Experts Group". ;)

@mirabilos @amin @ddlyh

I'm not a fan of providing retronyms for abbreviations necessitated by crappy operating systems and/or crappy conventions.

It should always be .jpeg, in my book.

@ddlyh @amin @rl_dane nah, 3-char extensions are fine and the usus.

And in some cases even more correct, e.g. in .htm (as the file is not the language).

@mirabilos @ddlyh @rl_dane

And if we’re talking the Unix world the file extensions are basically ignored anyway. It’s only on Windows that it actually matters.

@amin @mirabilos @rl_dane Only on the commandline - in graphical shells, the Unix world uses them for the icons.

It's RISCOS that ignores them pretty much entirely (I think?)...

@ddlyh @amin @mirabilos

I need to play with RiscOS.

I need to get a proper three-button (no wheel) mouse, first.

@rl_dane @ddlyh @mirabilos

…a mouse with no scroll wheel? Why?

@amin @ddlyh @mirabilos

Because #RiscOS uses the second mouse button as the right click.

It's infuriating to try to click the mouse wheel that much.

@mirabilos @amin @ddlyh

But then, instead of having a frustrating button arrangement, I'd have a frustrating pointing device.

Sorry, I know that's sacreligious. 😁

@mirabilos @amin @ddlyh

You sit down at a desktop. At the desktop is a keyboard, a USB mouse, and a USB-connected trackpoint by itself.

All other things being the same, which one do you reach for?

For me, it's the mouse, hands down.

@ddlyh @mirabilos @amin

I agree. I find myself using dolphin less and less, but I do find it useful when there are many files present and I want a quick overview, or when I want more clues as to file type (icons!) (although I understand that tools like exa give you some of this)

@rl_dane @ddlyh @mirabilos

ls --color gives some clues to filetype too. ;)

@amin @rl_dane @ddlyh

This works, though:

@mirabilos @rl_dane @ddlyh

Yeah yeah yeah, I'm sure the flags are different on BSDs. ;)

@amin @mirabilos @ddlyh

#FreeBSD has ls --color (I think it might be the only --gnu-style flag in any stock BSD utility, lol), but not most of the other BSDs.

There's an lscolor in most ports, and of course, GNU coreutils if you want all that.

Honestly, alias ls=ls -F kinda does the job. ;)

@rl_dane @amin @mirabilos @ddlyh

Personally I just do ls -alh but that's just my preference...

@ddlyh @kkarhan @amin @mirabilos

--color=auto is the best bet. I think it detects whether or not you have a tty and outputs plain text if not (for piping)

@kkarhan @ddlyh @amin @mirabilos

Most Linux distros alias ls='ls--color=auto'for you by default. For many years.

Color ls is not a given in other Unixes.