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
  • tal
    1·
    1 year 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.