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[–] SuperRecording@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

tar just wraps, doesn't compress. so more accurate would be the pillows in a looser bag that doesn't squish them even a little :)

[–] Gleaming0167@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Cuts them into nice stripes so they fit onto a tape spindle though.

[–] trex@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Spotted the Linux user

[–] Lolors17@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

You got me!

[–] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

yourfiles.tar.xz

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Looks more like a one-way hash to me.

[–] _ak@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This is a one-way hash.

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[–] Semmelstulle@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I do NOT understand how zip is still the default. I use .tgz wherever I can.

[–] CreativeTensors@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Compatibility with literally anything under the sun that can decompress a compressed file.

[–] Semmelstulle@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

But isn't that's given with tgz too?
Except of course Windows iirc

[–] Mininux@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yep, but Windows is still the majority right now... And i'm sure there are a lot of people out there that don't have 7zip installed (why doesn't MS include their own implementation already ?)

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

They do but its useless. Winrar can handle .tar.* too

[–] Semmelstulle@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And this is the problem imo. If you NEVER change a thing you will never improve

[–] Mininux@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Good luck teaching that to people who only use a computer to browse Facebook.

Not saying it's impossible, but it takes time

[–] Semmelstulle@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Do these even need zips?

[–] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Windows, Android, iOS do not open them by default.

[–] Semmelstulle@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

You can do it on iOS using Siri Shortcuts.
I don't get how they add all these formats to Shortcuts but only Zip into the file app...

[–] DeGandalf@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Because of your comment, I did a quick google search and pretty much every source says that .tar.gz is also pretty ancient and not that good (from a compression point of view). For better compression, you can use the xz or 7zip formats. The former is more used on Linux, if that's what you're using.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

Lzo or lzma is best for compression. Also depends on the compression rate. KDE Ark is awesome

[–] Gentoo1337@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Reminds me of the "grandma.zip" meme

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yay this is now a URL. If your intention was not to post a URL to some random website not loading anything but javadscript, put a "" before the link I guess

Test "example/.com"

[–] 14specks@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Fuck Google

[–] psycrow@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why use this over .7z? I'm legit curious.

[–] glibg10b@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why use this over .xz? I'm legit curious.

[–] entropicshart@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Best explanation of tar/tar.gz that I have seen

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