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:
- photos .jxl
- videos .av1 (someone mentioned mka or something like that, cant recall but thet mentiomed it being a ‘container’)
- daw session files .dawproject
- documents .odt
- archive files (this one is causing a bloodbath so i picked randomly) .tar.zst
- models .gltf / .glb
- plain text utf-8
- interchange format .ora
- configuration files toml OR yaml (disagreement)
- typesetting typst
- open domain image data .exr
- lossless audio .flac
- lossy audio .opus
- subtitles srt/ass
- container mkv
wait so does it do all of those things?
So there’s a tool called tar that creates an archive (a
.tar
file. Then theres a tool called zstd that can be used to compress files, including.tar
files, which then becomes a.tar.zst
file. And then you can encrypt your.tar.zst
file using a tool called gpg, which would leave you with an encrypted, compressed.tar.zst.gpg
archive.Now, most people aren’t doing everything in the terminal, so the process for most people would be pretty much the same as creating a ZIP archive.