if you could pick a standard format for a purpose what would it be and why?

e.g. flac for lossless audio because…

(yes you can add new categories)

summary:

  1. photos .jxl
  2. open domain image data .exr
  3. videos .av1
  4. lossless audio .flac
  5. lossy audio .opus
  6. subtitles srt/ass
  7. fonts .otf
  8. container mkv (doesnt contain .jxl)
  9. plain text utf-8 (many also say markup but disagree on the implementation)
  10. documents .odt
  11. archive files (this one is causing a bloodbath so i picked randomly) .tar.zst
  12. configuration files toml
  13. typesetting typst
  14. interchange format .ora
  15. models .gltf / .glb
  16. daw session files .dawproject
  17. otdr measurement results .xml
  • danielfgomEnglish
    16•2 years ago

    Definitely FLAC for audio because it’s lossless, if you record from a high fidelity source…

    exFAT for external hard drives and SD cards because both Windows and Mac can read and write to it as well as Linux. And you don’t have the permission pain…

      • danielfgomEnglish
        4•2 years ago

        If you were to format the drive with extra and then copy something to it from Linux - if you try open it on another Linux machine (eg you distro hop after this event) it won’t open the file because your aren’t the owner.

        Then you have to jump though hoops trying to make yourself the owner just so you can open your own file.

        I learnt this the hard way so I just use exFAT and it all works.

        • @[email protected]
          1•2 years ago

          Then you have to jump though hoops trying to make yourself the owner just so you can open your own file.

          I mean, if you want to set permissions on a drive to a userid and groupid in /etc/passwd and /etc/group on the current machine:

          $ sudo chown -R /mnt/olddrive username
$ sudo chgrp -R /mnt/olddrive groupname

          That’s not that painful, though I guess it could take a while to run on a drive with a lot of stuff.