supposedly it’s a better format. in practice it’s worse, and support is so low in most applications that it’s bad. but google forces what it wants, so that means when it can give you a webp, it will to encourage adoption.

there are cases where alternative file formats can really be better: matroska, for example. webp is not better, however.

systemd timers are not actually universal. not everyone uses systemd, some use sysvinit, openrc, etc. systemd timers are also much more difficult to set up.

cron is not “deprecated” and is still widely used industrially and locally.

I didn’t know about the Rocky legal structure. Thanks for the pointer