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. videos .av1 (someone mentioned mka or something like that, cant recall but thet mentiomed it being a ‘container’)
  3. daw session files .dawproject
  4. documents .odt
  5. archive files (this one is causing a bloodbath so i picked randomly) .tar.zst
  6. models .gltf / .glb
  7. plain text utf-8
  8. interchange format .ora
  9. configuration files toml OR yaml (disagreement)
  10. typesetting typst
  11. open domain image data .exr
  12. lossless audio .flac
  13. lossy audio .opus
  14. subtitles srt/ass
  15. container mkv
  • Josh F.@lemmy.ko4abp.com
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    9 months ago

    That would explain why I don’t see them often. I haven’t been very active in gaming as of late, let alone modding. And I generally don’t pirate games. I’m cool with people that do, I just don’t personally. (Virus fears, being out of the loop long enough that I don’t know any good sites, etc)

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      9 months ago

      virus fears

      Honestly, if desktop operating systems supported better sandboxing of malware, I bet that piracy would increase.