user134450

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[–] user134450@feddit.org 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

TIFF is also such a hot mess when it comes to picking the correct subformat because there are so many options for compression available, some of them FOSS, some of them proprietary. Edit: … and most of them quite dated.

[–] user134450@feddit.org 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Are we still talking about PNG? Nowhere in the PNG standard is a description of changing the actual content of an image to make it compress better with DEFLATE. If you are thinking about the filter stage you should know that in this context an image filter is just creating a different representation of the same image, because it is fully reversible.

[–] user134450@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

How would you make a lossy PNG? Just introduce errors randomly? That makes no sense.

[–] user134450@feddit.org 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There is a limit on the spacing of the colour bands though. If you want colours then you have to hit the spots where the correct phosphors are and this limits the usable resolution.

[–] user134450@feddit.org 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So it still uses a MSDOS partition table, interesting. This usually only happens on systems that do not support EFI at all.

Is your BIOS and main board fairly old per chance?

[–] user134450@feddit.org 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Ok, that looks like a fairly standard setup. I guess taking a look at the boot loader itself would be the next step. When you see the Debian bootloader you could try pressing 'e' to view what commands it uses internally to boot. The lines starting with "linux" and "initrd" would be most interesting.

[–] user134450@feddit.org 8 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Hi, it would be useful to know what kind of device you are installing on. For a laptop the model and make would be especially useful. If it is a PC then the drive configuration would be interesting (what kind of drive, how many etc.)

[–] user134450@feddit.org 3 points 4 months ago

Nope, not compression tech. The Einstein refrigerator is an absorption refrigerator and these don't use compressors.

[–] user134450@feddit.org 14 points 4 months ago (5 children)

If they are all installed in the same wine prefix you could back up everything in one go by archiving the ".wine" folder in your home. that will include all applications installed in wine and all settings for those applications.

if you want to separate them into one archive per app you should look into wine prefixes, otherwise you would need to identify every folder a given app created during installation and archive those together manually, which can be very tedious.