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Gonna be honest, never used ffmpeg for images lol. I often take images from PDFs that have transparency (rpg books to import into my vtt) and they come out of pdfimages with an opaque greyscale alpha mask and an opaque image. I found it easy to apply the mask with imagemagick, though. Ffmpeg can probably do it but just never had a use case. I just use cwebp to convert because that's my primary use-case: converting pngs to lossy webp files and cwebp is good enough for me for that:)

Im recommending them to anyone who wants free software and is willing to invest their time into understanding how to do things for free and without concern over their data. If you aren't willing to invest the necessary time it isn't for you and that's why I said it. It's okay if these don't work for you. That's valid. But it does, in fact, work for many others who are not you.

I mentioned the manual because you claimed you didn't know what the commands do. If you read and take the time to learn the manual like you said you can do, you will, in fact, understand how the commands work. Additionally, this is public forum, my post may have been a reply to you but I understand other people may read my comment. Other people may have your frustrations but are not aware of the manuals that tell them exactly how the commands work. It only takes a bit of elbow grease, perhaps people other than you are willing to apply it?

I'm not sure if you saw it, but I did mention a gui application for converting files. I admit, I don't use it, but many people also save a lot of money using it, so it might be helpful. I have no idea if it's useful for your needs though.

Here's "ffmpeg in 100 seconds" https://youtu.be/26Mayv5JPz0

Here's a video on ffmpeg and imagemagick: https://youtu.be/sKBM4M-kuCg

Additionally, you can just learn how to read man pages: https://itsfoss.com/linux-man-page-guide/

There's a neat little guide that'll help you learn how to read documentation.

Once you've read through that let me know what confuses you about documentation.

I understand that you may not know the commands you are told by strangers, but many of these are tools are meant for professionals. ffmpeg, for example, is used by many industries and companies worth millions of dollars to handle production workloads. They often have documentation to tell you what they do, though

There's a manual for ffmpeg for example: https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html

Here's imgemagick's documentation: https://imagemagick.org/script/magick.php

Obviously you won't understand any of that because the command line doesn't work for you, but for those of us who do understand it and can use it, it's very informative.

I think handbrake is a gui wrapper on top of ffmpeg, but I never used it, I just memorized the ffmpeg commands and can type so much faster than i can click.

Pandoc for documents, ffmpeg for video , imagemagick for images

Killing fascists is a very good alternative to voting them out

And remove the need for keys to exchanged and suddenly the impossible is possible. Access to the hardware can always beat any software, it just needs wits. It has to communicate over some sort of NIC or other chip that can be desoldered and replaced with a custom firmware. Or its pins might have a Linux socket connection. Who knows how many insecure holes are there once you have access to the boards. Once you get there it, and enough people care to do it, it can be as easy as an ifixit guide away with an open source board or something, or hopefully just a flash of firmware away.

If I had a Tesla and someone smart enough to hack into I wouldn't doubt I could probably figure out how they build their dashboards and reverse engineer them, they're most likely browser based or qt or something like it. It'd be too costly to do it in anything else and Id bet many spacex dashes are the same tech. But I ain't rich enough to get one of those things so someone else has to. There's only so many ways to draw pixels on a screen in the name of profit

I failed my hirevue (I got a 40%) but my recruiter talked to the company and my previous manager gave a glowing recommendation so I got the job. I allegedly did a good job on the hirevue by all humans involved. Fuck this AI shit. The only way I got this job was because of humans, the ai did everything it could prevent the company from getting their preferred candidate. If the job market wasn't so fucked and I haven't been unemployed for 5 months in the past two years I'd give this company the bird and tell them to fuck off too, but I don't have health insurance and my bank account is drained.

So was the onion at one point

How long will USPS last?

HireVue is a thing. I just took one being a software engineer interviewing

https://www.hirevue.com/

I started using Twitter in 2009. It was just techy people back then. Things are allowed to take time and grow organically.