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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. (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

What a strange take. Rar is the OG for better compression in Windows.

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

That claim is so vague as to be useless.

Better how? Ratio? Speed?

Better than what competing formats, and how?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I explained it in another comment on this thread.

https://lemmy.world/comment/10467937

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

7z has way better (ultra) compression

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

So that makes sense to use now. Rar made sense before 7z existed.

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

7z was developed in 1999. As far as I know, rar was popular due to was shareware with practically unlimited “trial” and there was an opinion, that paid products are better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

All the while 7z os FOSS (: