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[–] SuperRecording@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

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 :)

[–] trex@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Spotted the Linux user

[–] Lolors17@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

You got me!

[–] Semmelstulle@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] DeGandalf@kbin.social 8 points 1 year 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 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] miss_taken@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nono, z-standard is where it's at

[–] CreativeTensors@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Semmelstulle@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Semmelstulle@kbin.social 1 points 1 year 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...

[–] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yourfiles.tar.xz

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks more like a one-way hash to me.

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

This is a one-way hash.

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[–] psycrow@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] TauZero@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Also, 7z does not store file permissions. Doesn't matter for a bunch of text/media files, but needed for distributing software.

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

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

[–] Gentoo1337@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Reminds me of the "grandma .zip" meme

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 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 space inside

"Example .com"

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

Fuck Google

[–] Gentoo1337@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Oops, yeah that was my intention lol. I'll put some invisible unicode character after the dot, maybe that would do it.

[–] this@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Naw thats grandma.mp3 or grandma.jpg because thats clearly lossy compression not lossless.

[–] entropicshart@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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