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
  • Hydroel
    48•1 year ago

    You’re comparing compiled executables to scripts, it’s apples and oranges.

    • @pivot_root
      -1•1 year ago

      I, for one, label my apple crates as oranges.

      winebin="wine"
if file "$1" | grep 64-bit; then
    winebin="wine64"
fi

printf '%s %q $@ || exit $?' "$winebin" "$1" > "$1.sh"
chmod +x "$1.sh"