.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?

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    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.

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        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.

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      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.

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        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.

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        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.

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    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.

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    .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.

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      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?

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        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+

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      tar zst

      ZStandard is garbage compared to LZMA2. Why? ZStandard has bugs and is not exactly production stable. 7Z is far more stable, and RAR is incomparable. 7Z and RAR have been around for over 20 years, extremely predictable and stable and have loads of features that ZST does not. ZST is not a general purpose long term compression format, unlike 7Z or RAR. It is only good for web servers serving webpage assets to users in-transit.

      GrapheneOS

      GrapheneOS is pure snake oil with a disgusting sole developer that believes in pushing corporate Big Tech propaganda, harassing and witch hunting any critics, having a little social media army with sockpuppets to do this, abuses mentally challenged by hiding behind “autism” label (Louis Rossmann has a nice video), falsely claims he was swatted without giving evidence or coverage in local Canadian media and blames everyone from redditors to community mods to YouTubers and so on. It has been 10 months at this point since the claim.

      I covered this disease for about 5 years, and it emanates from the same sewer that “security” clowns like Brad Spengler and madaidan do in Linux community. All they do is either push their bullshit solutions or push corporate Big Tech propaganda and hate any FOSS project they think will not worship them.

      https://old.reddit.com/r/privatelife/comments/ug9qnc/writeup_criticism_of_rprivacyguides_grapheneos/

      https://old.reddit.com/r/privatelife/comments/13teoo9/grapheneos_corporate_foss_loving_witch_hunting/

      One thing they also do is sell you the lie that it is the only thing that can give you any mobile privacy and security. Everything else is a failed joke and this thing is the only thing that works. They go to lengths of telling people to fly to other countries to get a Pixel. https://i.imgur.com/Yv9nvxy.jpg And they make fake claims about buying $1 million Israeli Cellebrite kits and them not working against GrapheneOS’ “Titan” security for bootloader and other kinds of attacks. https://i.imgur.com/woNxPhx.jpg

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    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.

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      Indeed. Any specific file formats that you would recommend?
      If the list would be too long, maybe only the ones that are commonly overlooked?

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    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.

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      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?

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        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

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      AV1 is terrible as far as compression speeds go. H265 is far superior, is 2-3% within AV1 size, and is only half as slow as H264 compression. AV1 encoding is over 10x slower than H265. AV1 is not built for us, but for megacorps with 6 figure machines.

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    This is a bit more low tech, but you mention technique, and I think people should hand write things more. At least, for first drafts.

    You neurologically process things in a different way when you use your hand in that manner, and the act of transcribing your own work into a computer or device is an incredible editing measure in its own right. It forces commitment and flow, which is so precious in our time of short attention and focus.

    Also, its good to be fluent in both skills, because you never know what could happen to your body. Realizing you haven’t extensively used a pen or pencil much in years is a pretty fucky kinda feeling from a motor dexterity perspective.

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    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).

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    Convert from folders to labels/tags.

    The folder system was based off of physical folders and cabinets, which has limitations that don’t exist in the digital space. Labels/tagging offers so much more usable metadata.

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      Directories are nice because they easily and clearly filter information in a human way and they naturally build a tree that can be parsed quickly by a person.

      I like the desktop metaphor, because it’s how I think.

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        Younger generations that have never seen a filing cabinet and are only accustomed to apps on phones don’t really use folder trees. It’s surprising at first when you encounter it.

        It’s like that save icon… no one has seen a floppy disk in decades, it doesnt mean anything to most people.

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        I’ve been doing a lot with organizing my data in Obsidian, and I’ve found utility in having both folders and metadata. Using the Dataview plugin makes proper metadata fields really powerful; you basically turn your collection of markdown files into a NoSQL DB. Having a folder structure is handy too though because you can have different metadata templates applied to new files in different folders with the Templater plugin.

        Obviously that is dependent on a fairly specific workflow, but I think it’s worth considering “why not both?”

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        Your music app probably supports labels/tags

        Your photo organization app probably supports labels.

        Most email clients supports labels in some way. Connecting a mail client to gmail usually ends up with a bad folder tree though.

        Ntfs doesn’t. I don’t know what file systems do.

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    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

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        I don’t really know the details but afaik it uses new algorithms introduced in windows 10 and there is virtually no overhead.