.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.
I keep taking about wanting to use markdown files for contacts and policies at work, stored in reports repos for change tracking. The problem is always “the legal team isn’t going to use Git”. What I’d love to see is a front end for Git that allows direct markdown editing and emulates the Track Changes feature in Word.
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.
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.
Agreed. This UI is very much inherited from ancient word processing applications. The shift that Microsoft made in the Vista era to the tabbed menu buttons only added extra mouse clicks to get to the same set of functions. Word and LibreOffice both allow you to do the kind of thing you’re talking about, but those features are nestled way down into menus and trays that are ugly and hard to use and promote the use of the wrong tool since the wrong tool is made more accessible.
Markdown (.md) could and should be used for simple, somewhat structured text files. It’s easy enough to learn, and WYSIWYG editors are abundant as well.
I made a little markdown users community if anyone wants to talk markdown. Not much there at the moment!
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !markdown@lemmy.ml
.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.
Yup. Apparently it has done security features they are not willing to go without by supporting other phones
Yes phones need to have at least these requirements to fullfill GrapheneOS standards:
Why doesn’t anyone specify that Graphene OS can only be installed on Pixel?
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 you
Arch 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?
I have Arch with an Nvidia card. Granted not a laptop but, it works. Even with Wayland (Hyprland).
Is it easy/non-cumbersome to install and maintain?
Have never tried arch.
At its highest compression setting (zstd -T0 -19 --long), it’s about the same as lzma in compression ratio (varies a bit from file to file though), but slightly faster to compress, and much much faster to decompress. Decompression speed is not significantly affected by the compression setting (though compression speed is) and is usually at least a few hundred MiB/s to 1G+
Yes GrapheneOS only supports pixel devices, as these are the only phones that have a high enough security standard.
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.
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?
Ratios that extreme would probably only be seen in cases where the source video was really poorly compressed anyway, which is what the commenter probably experienced. I’ve had that happen before too. Expect more like half the size compared to H264, which is still pretty good
