Showerthoughts

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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. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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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 2 months ago by Willy to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

7z can be at least decompressed in macOS & FreeBSD out of the box.

On windows tar.bz/gz/xz unpacks to tar and then to actual files. As tar is a separate archive format

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Windows having tar.gz support is great.

I have scripts for generating log bundles on user computers and sending to a share. tar.gz is great for compressing ~2.5GB text to send over VPN, and then I can open the .tar.gz direct from the network drive with minimal additional delay opening a 500MB text file inside.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I still prefer 7z for compression