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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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[–] AbouBenAdhem 45 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (9 children)

AKA “Why zip doesn’t compress things much any more”.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 21 hours ago (4 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.

[–] Brickhead92 19 points 21 hours ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 18 hours ago

The cheeky option:

tar -h

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 19 hours ago

tar -xzvf filename

With a bad pretend accent:

Xtract

Zee

Vucking

File

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

tar -cf stop-nuke.tar

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