• hmmmOP
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      17 days ago

      Why are you surpried? It’s actually possible. You just need so much computing power like around 64 GB ram and High End CPU to Pack and Unpack both.

      • Farid
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        6 days ago

        Because modern media files are already compressed by default and have very little redundancy in them.

    • @Pregnenolone
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      317 days ago

      WinRAR got me through some hard times. She might be filthy, but she did the job

      • TheTechnician27
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        127 days ago

        She’s proprietary nagware, and 7-Zip is better in every way.

        • bruhduh
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          127 days ago

          Say truthfully, when you was 7 y.o kid, did you used fully open sourced OS then? I think everyone used winrar when they were kids/teenagers (before learning about foss)

          • @[email protected]
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            27 days ago

            I used winrar until I found out about 7 zip around 2003-4ish, but I still used 7z on windows back then tbf. Just using 7z and VLC on windows simply because they’re better doesn’t mean you have to be Stallman.

            • bruhduh
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              16 days ago

              You didn’t used winamp?

              • @[email protected]
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                16 days ago

                …shit honestly I used winsomething until 7z, but you got me I can’t remember if it was -zip or -rar, damn similar names +20yr!

                But in either case, “the rest.”

                • bruhduh
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                  16 days ago

                  You don’t remember this brotha?

  • @[email protected]
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    you can’t compress most media files again, they don’t get smaller that way as they’re already compressed. you can’t compress files again, that’s against Shannon Information theory.