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.
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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.
People are making fun of it in the comments, but i ordered one on restock day and I'm excited!
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..
You're meant to compress your belongings before they go in the bag, then decompress them when you need them.
I can quickly summarize:
Word Vegan + Not A Vegan Thing = Bullshit For Morons
In that case just call it something else. Hell Chrysler created "Corinthian" leather to make the garbage they put in their cars seem like it was fancy.
And as a moron I would honestly suggest just tricking us with a delicious name instead of trying to make a vegan cheese steak that tastes terrible, then it makes younger silly moron me feel like vegan food is pretentious and terrible.
Now that is absolutely untrue and in the ensuing years my dumbass has had lots of absolutely delicious food that I didn't even know was vegan.
Y'all gots a marketing problem, ease us morons into it, with delicious butternut squash soup.
It should absolutely come with a free copy of WinRAR.
Technically everything comes with a free copy of WinRAR
tar -xfvz
-f needs to be the last argument here as it expects the file name correctly after
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.
The varsity jacket looks like a 6th-grader designed it.
Yeah... I'd buy some of this stuff to be ironic, but it doesn't look very good 🤷♂️
That sucks. I've never used winrar but I am actually in need of a bag upgrade so I was going to look at it.
Tarrrrrr... Gz
7-zip.
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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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.
"I paid for WinRAR" with a Mister Moneybags kinda character saying it or something. That would be fun.
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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Can I get an indefinitely fully-functional trial version of the bag first?
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.
It wasn't a better product, it was worse in every measurable way but one: You could split archives into arbitrary sizes so you could steal warez off Usenet in 1-floppy chunks. That's it. It's a ho-hum product at best.
Winrar definitely compresses better than zip. At least based on my experience.
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