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What are you surprised that people pay for, when there are free alternatives in existence? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 3 days ago by Soulifix@kbin.melroy.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I was going through my Wal-Mart+ subscription plan that I got for free and I saw their offers. One of which was EMeals, that was a 60-day trial. I thought that this was like Blue Apron or other meal delivery services so I thought I'd take a crack at it and hope that it would get me on a path to eat better.

Turns out, it's just a meal planner. And it's absurd to me why and how would anyone pay for something when there are countless and countless recipes and meal planners readily available for free. Who'd the fuck would want to pay for a planner? That's like paying for a calendar app.

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[–] patatahooligan@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Interesting. Mind sharing which compression algorithms you compare and how?

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

winrar, (almost) all options available in peazip, I explore the options available in the then latest tar and zip commands under debian, and I look around to try some novelty stuff or if there's anything experimental.

I go one by one, setting up scripts to compress a directory with a particular algorithm and compression configuration. (and to record timstamps, check integrity, etc). Then collect a reasonably representative set of files from my ssd's.

Writing those scripts takes a few hours, but after that I hit run, and usually just screen record to a seperate ssd. After (usually) about a little over a day I can look back and see how long things took, and also have a video of all of them. I scrub it just to make sure nothing glitched out.

I have to say though, winrar's lead had shrunk a lot in my last test. Despite the new rar5 thing. Perhaps the next time will be different.

When is the next time? When I feel like it. After all, this is just a weird hobby I really enjoy.

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What are the results?

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 1 points 1 day ago

I'd have to dig down my pc files for details. But winrar and 7z we're at the top of the stack, and lzma was a surprising 3rd place. Apparently some updates were made to the algorithm