What file formats, technologies, techniques do you think would benefit most people by being more common? Or that people would benefit by being more aware of?

.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?

Coasting0942 ,

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.

Achyu OP ,

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?

9point6 ,

It depends if you have modern enough hardware to contain an AV1 hardware encoder (pretty much just current enthusiast stuff).

AV1 typically ends up in an MKV or WebM container (btw WebM is just a kind of MKV with less features intended for web use).

tkk13909 ,
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1/10??? I need to look into this ASAP!

Supermariofan67 ,

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

tkk13909 ,
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Alright. Thank you!

icanwatermyplants ,

Some examples of poor compression: cameras, dashcams, security cameras, basically anything that just dumps an image into a stream.

TheAnonymouseJoker ,

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.

Bronco1676 , (edited )

.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.

Achyu OP ,

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?

Supermariofan67 ,

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+

victorz ,

I have Arch with an Nvidia card. Granted not a laptop but, it works. Even with Wayland (Hyprland).

Achyu OP ,

Is it easy/non-cumbersome to install and maintain?
Have never tried arch.

victorz ,

It's as easy as you make it, honestly. If you have patience to read the wiki before trying different things then it's for you, especially if you want a lean, clean system with only the stuff you choose and want in it, and the latest versions of those things.

You can install GNOME or KDE and be done forever, or you could be like me, continuously tweaking my custom UI written in eww widgets, constantly optimizing my scripts, my key bindings... Experimenting with different window managers...

I make it neverending because I choose to, not because it's Arch.

I hope you join the family some day. We're enjoying ourselves.

Achyu OP ,

Isn't Arch a rolling release model? Would not be there be issues in maintenance?

The Arch wiki is very cool. It's useful for learning about things and troubleshooting.

victorz ,

The Arch wiki is my god. ❤️

And yes, it's a rolling release model. I've not had issues with maintenance. I just install updates and go on with life. Sometimes the news page will have some notes about manual intervention that needs to happen but they are few and far between. Sometimes things that don't even apply to me due to not having the packages installed that have breaking changes.

I have two small kids and a full time job, I don't stress over maintenance one bit. I use it at work and at home, for leisure and gaming, as well as work from home and productivity, streaming, what have you. Just a normal OS, the only difference is the installation procedure, mostly. Now there's even a script that installs it for you, if your setup isn't too complicated.

Achyu OP ,

Aah. Will try it out(probably on a VM first, or when I distrohop)

victorz ,

Good luck! Don't be a stranger.

Bronco1676 ,

Yes GrapheneOS only supports pixel devices, as these are the only phones that have a high enough security standard.

https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices

grill ,

GrapheneOS is still just for pixel phones right?

tkk13909 ,
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Yup. Apparently it has done security features they are not willing to go without by supporting other phones

Bronco1676 ,

Yes phones need to have at least these requirements to fullfill GrapheneOS standards:

https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices

shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit ,

Yes for zstd. Here's a comparison:

https://github.com/azlux/log2ram#compressor

Comparison of various compression algorithms by ratio, compression throughput, decompression throughput.

michael_palmer ,

Why doesn't anyone specify that Graphene OS can only be installed on Pixel?

TheAnonymouseJoker ,

Because it is GrapheneOS propaganda. Obscuring their affiliation and motives is the thing they are experts at.

TheAnonymouseJoker ,

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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