Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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The entire showerthought must be in the title
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~~Most~~ many file types are just a renamed .zip (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I see images, audio, or video files distributed in zips far too often. You're getting maybe a percent of compression if you're lucky; just distribute the raw files or use a non-compressed bundle format like tar.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

But then,

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago

tar -xzvf filename

With a bad pretend accent:

Xtract

Zee

Vucking

File

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago

The cheeky option:

tar -h

Or is it tar --help? Oh no...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

tar -cf stop-nuke.tar