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by crote 928 days ago
Seconding this. It feels like every other day I download an image, realize it's WebP and start bashing my head against the desk because it means opening it in GIMP to convert it to JPEG once again.

I've got several hundreds of GB of unused SSD storage, and I'm downloading it over a 1Gbps connection. Honestly, I really could not care less about those 150KB I'm saving.

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> I've got several hundreds of GB of unused SSD storage, and I'm downloading it over a 1Gbps connection.

It's helpful to remember that many people have far worse setups.

The people paying for the server's bandwidth care.