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[–] [email protected] 66 points 5 days ago (2 children)

They should sell a t-shirt that says “I never paid for WinRAR and all I got was this lousy t-shirt”.

I’d buy one.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 days ago (1 children)

They should also make a shirt that says, “I did buy WinRAR and I also bought this shirt” to really corner the market on WinRAR-related apparel.

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[–] fibojoly 5 points 5 days ago

"I paid for WinRAR" with a Mister Moneybags kinda character saying it or something. That would be fun.

[–] [email protected] 95 points 6 days ago (8 children)
[–] [email protected] 50 points 6 days ago (6 children)

It's fascinating to me that people prefer shitty nagware over 7-zip only because they think they're "getting one over" by not paying for inferior software and/or feel nostalgic for it.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Does 7-zip have a bag though?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Didn’t 7-zip have a vulnerability a while back?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah, WinRAR averages about 3 per year.

All software stacks are going to be vulnerable in some way or another. We don't have a way to create perfect software just yet.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 days ago

You've never paid for WinRAR because you're cheap. I've never paid for WinRAR because I know 7-Zip exists.

We are not the same.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago

Tbh I never found out about 7zip until like when I was 30. And I'm 33 now xd. I used WinRAR for years.

And I will say, 7zip is much better. No offense to WinRAR. I got much respect for WinRAR.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 6 days ago

Can I get an indefinitely fully-functional trial version of the bag first?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago

People are making fun of it in the comments, but i ordered one on restock day and I'm excited!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It should absolutely come with a free copy of WinRAR.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

Technically everything comes with a free copy of WinRAR

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I actually really like winrar. Is it my format of choice? No, there's open free alternatives. But it was a legit better product developed by like one guy that they then proceeded to give free access to with a license that incentivises paying them for their work and has probably raked in insane sums from corporations over the years. It's what happens when you have a Microsoft like idea without the endless greed to sprawl into a billion dollar company.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago (3 children)

The bag looks nice, but it's too small for usage (it's shown for holding TCG cards). Would need to be closer to being able to hold a laptop, etc. And being made of "vegan" leather is just a turn off. Not for being vegan, but for only being listed as vegan, since it can be made of almost anything and the quality of vegan leather can vary dramatically.

Vegan leather can be made from plastic or "pineapple leaves, cork, kelp, agave, apple skins, wine-making remnants, kombucha, and more". Just a basic understanding of vegan leather here..

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago

You're meant to compress your belongings before they go in the bag, then decompress them when you need them.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 days ago (6 children)

As someone who actually paid for WinRAR, will I get a free bag?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Hella respect for this move, and i like the look of these. I just wish it had come at a time before I was concerned about the price of everything that I need to survive sky rocketing. Would have purchased 2 years ago.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

I bought WinRAR, for a pretty specific reason: It can handle Japanese locale. The assorted games, patches, manga, and so forth couldn't be handled by 7zip/PeaZip at the time.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

-f needs to be the last argument here as it expects the file name correctly after

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I would honestly buy one if it wasn't $150. That's so much.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Ironically so is the price of WinRaR licence when free, better alternatives exist.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

WinRAR was the saviour of every inexperienced Minecraft mod enthusiast, though

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

7zip all the way, especially back then!

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

For that price, does it compress anything you put in the bag?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

Yeah that’s called a bag of holding and it would be worth 1000x that. Hell I’d probably save up all my Pennie’s for that.

[–] skulblaka 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This actually looks like a really nice bag though lol I might actually buy this if it were a bit cheaper

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (7 children)

Libre software selling whatever they can is good for maintaining development.

If the Linux kernel ever changed to AGPLv3 I would for sure buy one GNU/Linux stable release each year to make up for corporations that would ban Linux from their network due to AGPL3 legal obligations.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 days ago

It’s proprietary.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

corporations that would ban Linux from their network

You can't change the license retroactively. Corporations would likely hard-fork the kernel at the last GPL2 commit and move it to a restricted but compliant access model like Red Hat did.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

Missed opportunity to call it LinRar

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[–] Grass 11 points 5 days ago

I'm troubled by that literal brick of leaf cards

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

I bought it decades ago, but lost my product key. 😞

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

The varsity jacket looks like a 6th-grader designed it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah... I'd buy some of this stuff to be ironic, but it doesn't look very good 🤷‍♂️

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

The answer to that question: "by never buying a WinRAR bag?"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

My reaction to this whole year tbh

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