@[email protected] to [email protected] • 5 months agoOn the Internet, what is a dead giveaway that someone is actually a kid?lemmy.mlimagemessage-square504fedilinkarrow-up1692arrow-down121
arrow-up1671arrow-down1imageOn the Internet, what is a dead giveaway that someone is actually a kid?lemmy.ml@[email protected] to [email protected] • 5 months agomessage-square504fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink22•edit-25 months agoThis ‘compress’ everything is such a waste of CPU and energy. Plus “oops, all your files are gone, tee hee”. GZ everywhere is fucking stupid. More complexity for zero benefit. - CTO at my previous company
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•5 months agoTo be fair: there are many things where compression is a waste of CPU time, like fonts and about 90% of non-text media as they’re already compressed
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•edit-25 months agoWhat, you don’t love downloading a zip file that contains an msi (which is perfectly capable of internally compressing much of its internal data)?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•5 months agoI only tar my game backups, because compression time for 0.5% is wasted time.
This ‘compress’ everything is such a waste of CPU and energy. Plus “oops, all your files are gone, tee hee”. GZ everywhere is fucking stupid. More complexity for zero benefit.
- CTO at my previous company
To be fair: there are many things where compression is a waste of CPU time, like fonts and about 90% of non-text media as they’re already compressed
What, you don’t love downloading a zip file that contains an msi (which is perfectly capable of internally compressing much of its internal data)?
I only tar my game backups, because compression time for 0.5% is wasted time.