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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[–] aard@kyu.de 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I personally prefer bzip2 - but it needs to be packed with pbzip, not the regular bzip to generate archives that can be extracted on multiple cores. Not a good option if you have to think about Windows users, though.

[–] quicksand@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

Ah I have to use Windows for work and that's the source of most of my compression needs. Thanks for the info though, I'll look into this