.7z seems to be good and I do recommend it to people, saying that it's better than regular zip. Have recently started using opus n webm files more.
I've also heard about jxl recently. Would be very nice to see it become popular, as it could reduce the size of my memes n screenshots folders. Faster webpage loading too.
Are there any other file formats that'll be useful to people, but isn't getting enough attention?
In the case of apps, Trebleshot seems to be good for android file sharing. I like it's web sharing option having an upload form. Helps me where I don't have to ask others to install an app to send me a file locally. Not sure about its encryption n security aspects, but I only have used it for local file sharing.
And what about other stuff similar to that, other than file formats or apps?
Recently have started exercising my neck. Not neck bridges and loaded things tho. Only safe n simple movements. Seems to be good, especially after using a monitor for some time. I think it's not much talked about, maybe because of the fear that people will overdo it?
I just think Microsoft Word is actively making the entire world less efficient. It's not made to produce documents that are easy to read. Don't have an obvious contender though. LibreOffice Writer just tries to be the same shitty product but free, LaTeX is way too technical and has horrible error handling. Markdown usability and quality breaks down if you make any serious use of tables and figures.
Since I'm not a US citizen I also think it's a threat to our country that our entire administration and every company is dependent on storing documents in an effectively proprietary format controlled by a US company, on cloud servers controlled by a US company. If compelled by the US government, Microsoft could put all of EU to a halt with the flick of a switch. National security calls for formats as central as this to be open standards supported by multiple competing products.
Couldn't agree more. Tried OnlyOffice? Lovely suite . Markdown is amazing, I am writing a web book & PDF version with the same source. Did LaTeX, but it was just so cumbersome.
Sorry, I can see from the first screenshot on their web site that OnlyOffice is not conducive to legibility. A user interface that promotes direct control of the typeface (instead of styling rules based on semantic tags) is going to produce inconsistent documents.
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User interfaces should be designed to make it easy to do things right, and difficult to do things wrong. This UI encourages people to produce crap.
Their other screenshots further show that they do not care about things like appropriate margin size or inter-word spacing, leaving me with little trust in the product.
Onlyoffice works with microsoft ooxml standards by default, in other words, promoting them and encouraging its use. OOXML is everything but efficient. OpenDocument, instead, which is used by LibreOffice by default, is the open and efficient standard.
Give LyX a try. It's like writing TeX in a much more friendly way.
.tar.zst
People should stop using .tar.gz or .zip
They both are not horribly bad, but .tar.zst is just the best option we have, as zstandard is pareto optimal
https://insanity.industries/post/pareto-optimal-compression/
Linux
I use arch btw
GrapheneOS
GrapheneOS is the best android custom ROM by far. It is more secure, it gets updated very often and security patches land on my phone faster than I hear about them. It is way more performant than the default ROM that ships with Pixel Phones, my battery lasts for days if I don't use the phone.
At first I was very sceptical, as I want to be sure I can rely on my phone. But it is super stable, way better than the Samsung ROM I had before.
zst
Been hearing about this. Peazip seems to support it.
Is zstd better than lzma in compressed size or is the optimality weighing in both compression time and compressed size?
Will try it out. Thank youArch Linux
Opensuse Leap, because I have a nvidia laptop. Thinking about switching to Pop OS, as ubuntu gets more packages and simple online tutorials on them.
Graphene OS
I'm on a random Chinese android. It's cheap and decent, but I don't know if it would handle flashing a new rom. Graphene aims at support for Pixel, right?
Yes GrapheneOS only supports pixel devices, as these are the only phones that have a high enough security standard.
https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices
AV1 for video. Just running my video files through it gets the same quality at 1/10th the size. Thought I was having a stroke.
Cool. How much time does it take for encoding?
Which container do you generally prefer? mp4 or webm? Is there any remarkable benefit in choosing one over the other?
Open source file formats in general. I've personally known friends who have lost access to their old works because it was using some proprietary file format that only one abandoned proprietary software they don't have access to anymore can read.
Indeed. Any specific file formats that you would recommend?
If the list would be too long, maybe only the ones that are commonly overlooked?
Kind of a moot point these days, but I always wished OGG pushed MP3s out of the way. It generally has better audio quality, lower file size, and is an open source format. MP3s had their patent die (I think) and file storage has become less of an issue, but damnit OGG was perfect for the 00s. My plex server is still full of OGGs (I can't hear the difference with uncompressed, but my hearing is bad).
The .opus audio format. People need to stop ripping everything to MP3, it's inefficient and a flawed compression format. Opus is better than it and AAC.
Kind of the opposite of what you're asking for, but I hate pdf and wish it would go away. It's an awful file type to have to work with
As far as I'm concerned, rtf docs can accomplish everything pdf's set out to do. I don't see why basic documents need to be rendered in vectors
Plain text. It's the most readable of files. It's the only thing I use for true record keeping.
compact.exe, it's a built-in tool in windows for compressing executables. there's an open source GUI too, very useful for compressing games and the compression is "transparent" so you can still play the games after compressing. there's more info on the page I linked
Have not heard about it before. Very cool.
Is it like Opensuse's btrfs?
Thank you.I don't really know the details but afaik it uses new algorithms introduced in windows 10 and there is virtually no overhead.
