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[–] 30p87@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I am using png. Level 0 compression tho and in 4k (3840*2160), sometimes even 4k + 2*1440p (2560*1440), but it's already too large with just my main 4k monitor.

[–] B0rax@feddit.org 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] 30p87@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Because it was never a problem. It's a little bit faster for encoding and decoding, and no service ever had problems with the file size. Especially not my selfhosted stuff. Every service, except discord. As I now have resorted to using Vencord or just uploading most media to Nextcloud, I don't have that many issues with it anymore, anyway.

[–] nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It’s a little bit faster for encoding and decoding

On the other hand, the time spent uploading/downloading much smaller files probably more than makes up for that, although even that difference might get pretty small with modern internet connections.

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

Especially in times where using WiFi is faster than ethernet, because my network ports are only gigabit.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

Because it was never a problem.

But you literally started this thread because it’s a problem. And then you spent more time defending your bad choice on a Lemmy discussion than you will ever save in your entire life decompressing PNGs.

[–] brb@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

How does Vencord help with the upload limit?

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You know PNG is lossless compression right?

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Yes. But in theory it's still a performance hit, and as I have enough local storage (and typically use services with high limits), and I'm too lazy to change grims config just for discord, I never changed it and used Vencord instead.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why do you think it's a performance hit?

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because even though it saves over 29 MB, it also takes more than 20 times as long. And that's just on my laptop, 1920x1080 + 2*1680x1050. On my PC it's even worse.

I have thousands of GB of high speed storage, Gigabit internet, but only a Ryzen 5 2600 and a i5-1145G7.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

What about compression level 1 instead of 9?