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. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 months ago by Willy@sh.itjust.works to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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[–] noxy@yiffit.net 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

7z works fine, and isn't proprietary.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

7 zip didn't gain popularity until years later. WinRar was essentially free, since most people never bought the lifetime license.

[–] blazebra@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

7z uses proprietary rar library to unpack