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Technically, almost all video games are puzzle games. in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

[-] blazebra@programming.dev 24 points 2 months ago

Following this logic whole human life is a puzzle game.

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[-] blazebra@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

I still prefer 7z for compression

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[-] blazebra@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

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.

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[-] blazebra@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

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

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. in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

[-] blazebra@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

7z has way better (ultra) compression

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. in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

[-] blazebra@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

7z uses proprietary rar library to unpack