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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. A showerthought should offer a unique perspective on an ordinary part of life.

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Remember when it was a big deal if you chose .zip, .rar, or 7z, etc? Now we all have so much bandwidth it doesn't matter. (self.showerthoughts)

submitted 5 months ago by Willy to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nowadays it matters if you use a compression algorithm that can utilize multiple cores for packing/unpacking larger data. For a multiple GB archive that can be the difference between "I'll grab a coffee until this is ready" or "I'll go for lunch and hope it is done when I come back"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In that case, which file type would you recommend?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I personally prefer bzip2 - but it needs to be packed with pbzip, not the regular bzip to generate archives that can be extracted on multiple cores. Not a good option if you have to think about Windows users, though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Ah I have to use Windows for work and that's the source of most of my compression needs. Thanks for the info though, I'll look into this