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   Avatar of Chaos (mk2boogaloo@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 23:29:08 JST Avatar of Chaos
   A lot of non-tech people are really passionate about the idea of "physical media" when the truth is that your physical media is infinitely more likely to be damaged, lost, stop being compatible with your device, need manual patching, etc.. You have to realize the "physical" in physical media is as much of a money grubbing industry as having it be owned by a company, and DVD readers and retro consoles will one day be dusty collectors items that will cost you an arm and a leg for upkeep
   
   If you're into tech (real practical tech, not the political industry) you'll understand the only truly infinite and forever is piracy. that's right. Neither corporations nor your beloved physical hands that God made could do anything to make your precious little movies and video games last forever. But you know what does? Torrent sites. Illegal cloud storage so scattered and abstract no force on this earth will ever reach them. Not corpo. Not the law. Not even the natural force of fucking entropy. Do you know how a cloud works? One million computers, all connected to the internet, each host multiple copies of your media. One million or more. An infinite army of disposable clones that can never be contained. Missing bit from computer 9,681 during download? Computers 22,316-933,183 have that bit uploaded for you and you don't even have to think about it. When you "torrent" something, a number of computers equal to the population of a metropolitan city is at your service and ready to put it together for you atom by fucking atom from a total of several quadrillion bits collectively hosted in unreal digital space
   
   That's why I'm not into physical media.
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     hor32@hollow.raccoon.quest's status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 23:32:47 JST hor32

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     @MK2boogaloo@lab.nyanide.com yes but physical media looks very neat

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 23:34:52 JST 翠星石

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     @MK2boogaloo There is no cloud - it's just other people's computers.
     
     Depending on the popularity of the torrent, there can be millions of seeders or none.
     
     
     Videos in proprietary formats or proprietary games are not forever, as eventually you won't be able to get the right proprietary player working or the right proprietary OS working for the games (in a reasonable amount of time or at all).
     
     A video encoded in a free format will be playable pretty much forever of course.
     
     
     Most quality movie torrents were dumped from physical media (as that's the only way to get a quality version of the video for most movies) and bittorrent just acts as a backup really.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 23:36:17 JST 翠星石

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     • EdBoatConnoisseur
     @EdBoatConnoisseur @MK2boogaloo Quality optical disks can outlast HDD's and SSD's easily, although a lot of them are junk that just rot, thus for storing certain things, DVD's or bluray disks with plenty of parity via dvdisater can be good.
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     EdBoatConnoisseur (edboatconnoisseur@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 23:36:18 JST EdBoatConnoisseur

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     @MK2boogaloo Fuckers nowadays don't ubderstand that cd rot is still athing that can happen to their precious dvd and blue ray discs, i still remember back in 2007 when my first eminem cd became unusable because of cd rot.

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 23:41:43 JST 翠星石

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     • EdBoatConnoisseur
     @EdBoatConnoisseur @MK2boogaloo Don't use zip archives - zip is a pretty terrible format.
     
     If you want a long-term archive format that also does compression properly, you want lzip (it can restore a good file automatically from two or more files that are corrupted in different parts and can automatically repair/workaround minor corruption).
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     EdBoatConnoisseur (edboatconnoisseur@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 17-Mar-2025 23:41:44 JST EdBoatConnoisseur

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     @Suiseiseki @MK2boogaloo Still my chain of trust for important data tp be stored long term is: lto tape > hard drives in a raid array for parity > zip archives on hard drives.

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     EdBoatConnoisseur (edboatconnoisseur@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 00:18:37 JST EdBoatConnoisseur

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     @Suiseiseki @MK2boogaloo There's a reason i put zip at last, been also looking at 7z and tar.zst as options, i got some .rar files that i gotta convert to either zip or 7z, believe me i do lament that the innovation on compressed archive algorithms and formats has put more importance to speed and compression ration than to archival for bit rot and file corruption prevention/mitigation.

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     sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 00:19:21 JST sj_zero

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     I don't think that you are exactly on point, but you're pretty close.
     
     Physical media really doesn't matter, what really matters is DRM free. You don't need original physical media if you can make as many copies as you want, and then it doesn't matter if you lose the original disc, because you have 10 others.
     
     For a lot of these games, they will give you a CD but who cares -- you can't start a single player game without contacting an external server anyway!
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     ?uper?nekFriend ? (supersnekfriend@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 00:28:04 JST ?uper?nekFriend ?

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     @MK2boogaloo
     >A lot of non-tech people are really passionate about the idea of "physical media" when the truth is that your physical media is infinitely more likely to be damaged, lost, stop being compatible with your device, need manual patching, etc.
     >infinitely more likely
     Stopped listening to this heavy bait right here.
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 00:33:37 JST Johnny Peligro

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     • EdBoatConnoisseur
     @EdBoatConnoisseur @MK2boogaloo there was that big youtuber guy that was into physical stuff and whatever and his place burned down losing everything and i gloated about it on fedi lmfao
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     Bloodytailspike (monsterislandcolonizer@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 01:46:51 JST Bloodytailspike

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     • Escoffier Gab refugee
     @Escoffier @EdBoatConnoisseur @MK2boogaloo ✋🏻😒
     Silence zoomer
     A millennial is listening to early 00s hits
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     Bloodytailspike (monsterislandcolonizer@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 01:46:52 JST Bloodytailspike

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     • Escoffier Gab refugee
     @Escoffier @EdBoatConnoisseur @MK2boogaloo No I unironically like Linkin Park's first 2 albums
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     Escoffier Gab refugee (escoffier@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 01:46:52 JST Escoffier Gab refugee

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     @monsterislandcolonizer @EdBoatConnoisseur @MK2boogaloo I think there may be a pharma for that?
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     Escoffier Gab refugee (escoffier@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 01:46:53 JST Escoffier Gab refugee

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     @monsterislandcolonizer @EdBoatConnoisseur @MK2boogaloo My condolences
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     Bloodytailspike (monsterislandcolonizer@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 01:46:53 JST Bloodytailspike

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     • Escoffier Gab refugee
     @Escoffier @EdBoatConnoisseur @MK2boogaloo It's ok, I love that album
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     Escoffier Gab refugee (escoffier@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 01:46:53 JST Escoffier Gab refugee

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     • Bloodytailspike
     @monsterislandcolonizer @EdBoatConnoisseur @MK2boogaloo I'm so sorry*
     
     *these are what the kids on tiktok call "jokes?" Its kind of a new thing you may not have heard of it yet
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     Escoffier Gab refugee (escoffier@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 01:46:54 JST Escoffier Gab refugee

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     • Bloodytailspike
     @monsterislandcolonizer @EdBoatConnoisseur @MK2boogaloo I'm so sorry are you hanging on to it because your trash can is full?
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     Bloodytailspike (monsterislandcolonizer@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 01:46:54 JST Bloodytailspike

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     • Escoffier Gab refugee
     @Escoffier @EdBoatConnoisseur @MK2boogaloo I got it for my birthday was I was 9 so I'm keeping it for sentimental reasons
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     Bloodytailspike (monsterislandcolonizer@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 01:46:55 JST Bloodytailspike

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     • EdBoatConnoisseur
     @EdBoatConnoisseur @MK2boogaloo I have a Linkin Park CD I got in like 2002 that still works
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 15:55:50 JST 翠星石

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     • EdBoatConnoisseur
     • Pawlicker
     @Pawlicker @MK2boogaloo @EdBoatConnoisseur rar is a terrible proprietary format that should not be used.
     >windtoddler blames windows limitations on 7z.
     >windtoddler can't handle filesplitting extensions.
     >toddler can't handle the software not being bloated and not integrating, parity, instead of a parity program for that if wanted.
     Install GNU/Linux and use lzip and parity software.
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     EdBoatConnoisseur (edboatconnoisseur@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 15:55:51 JST EdBoatConnoisseur

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     @Pawlicker @Suiseiseki @MK2boogaloo so, which compressed archive fromats are good and bad? rar is bad cuz proprietary, zip is better than rar, 7z idk.

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     Pawlicker (pawlicker@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 15:55:51 JST Pawlicker

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     @EdBoatConnoisseur @Suiseiseki @MK2boogaloo rar is bad if you're fixating on that but it can handle corruption vastly better than 7z. 7z doesn't have a recovery record like rar does.
     
     https://menga.net/why-i-still-use-rar-instead-of-7z
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     Pawlicker (pawlicker@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 15:55:52 JST Pawlicker

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     @Suiseiseki @MK2boogaloo @EdBoatConnoisseur still better than 7z or so I've heard
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 15:58:09 JST 翠星石

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     • EdBoatConnoisseur
     @EdBoatConnoisseur @MK2boogaloo lzip has good speed, a good compression ration and good file corruption prevention/mitigation; https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/safety_of_the_lzip_format.html
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     Lina Inver?e (lina@eientei.org)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 20:02:20 JST Lina Inver?e

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     @MK2boogaloo @sj_zero also you aren't guaranteed a drm free game with physical media if it's not an old enough release
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     Avatar of Chaos (mk2boogaloo@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 20:02:21 JST Avatar of Chaos

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     @sj_zero pirating the game can remove the DRM in some cases.
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     Lina Inver?e (lina@eientei.org)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 20:08:27 JST Lina Inver?e

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     @MK2boogaloo @sj_zero and if you do look for old enough games that are gonna be drm free, you're gonna overpay for "limited quantity" "retro games" instead of just buying a fucking game
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     Lina Inver?e (lina@eientei.org)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 20:09:32 JST Lina Inver?e

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     @MK2boogaloo @sj_zero i can already imagine someone selling WON half life for over 9000 dollars cuz it's rare, you're better off making your own physical media distributions of games by buying dvd-rw's and shit
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     Avatar of Chaos (mk2boogaloo@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 21:04:08 JST Avatar of Chaos

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     @lina @sj_zero whoever buys limited edition retro games instead of downloading them from the internet deserve what they did.
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     Lina Inver?e (lina@eientei.org)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 21:04:08 JST Lina Inver?e

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     • sj_zero
     @MK2boogaloo @sj_zero most niggas don't realize that storing pirated, cracked games on your hardware is already physical media
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     hor32@hollow.raccoon.quest's status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 21:21:18 JST hor32

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     @MK2boogaloo@lab.nyanide.com thats what I do

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     Avatar of Chaos (mk2boogaloo@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 21:21:19 JST Avatar of Chaos

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     @hor32 buy the physical medias then make sure to back them up.
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     ?uper?nekFriend ? (supersnekfriend@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 21:28:48 JST ?uper?nekFriend ?

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     *Refuses to elaborate*
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     Avatar of Chaos (mk2boogaloo@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 21:28:49 JST Avatar of Chaos

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     @SuperSnekFriend how come this is a bait???
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     Lina Inver?e (lina@eientei.org)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 22:49:35 JST Lina Inver?e

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     • Vokainen
     @vokainen099 @MK2boogaloo @sj_zero the more oldschool stuff ends up in grifter hands, the higher the prices get, it's a race for getting the goods
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     Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 22:49:36 JST Vokainen

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     @lina @MK2boogaloo @sj_zero Back when LGR was still cozy he often noted that there were already entire shops selling for hundreds dollars what he could find by thrift hunting.
     
     It probably is even worse now.
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     Lina Inver?e (lina@eientei.org)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 22:50:08 JST Lina Inver?e

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     @waff @MK2boogaloo @sj_zero >midi
     bro it's tracker music
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     waff (waff@eientei.org)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 22:50:10 JST waff

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     @lina @MK2boogaloo @sj_zero imo storing pirated games has more of a charm for me. The communities that get together to get rid of a drm on a game/app basically feel more welcoming than whatever gay little set of patchnotes that the dev left around.
     
     Custom ascii art for the scene? Check.
     
     Special midi song for the keygen? Check.
     
     Thank you note? Check.
     
     Nothing is more at home than this.
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     Lina Inver?e (lina@eientei.org)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 22:54:30 JST Lina Inver?e

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     @vokainen099 @MK2boogaloo @sj_zero yeah because they're like piranhas that smelled blood in the water, they will either snatch up all the goods before actual human beings get their hands on them or they will drive the prices up so high that only they will be able to afford them
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     Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 22:54:31 JST Vokainen

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     @lina @MK2boogaloo @sj_zero A race mostly lost already, and most collectors end up as grifters when they decide to rid of their stuff
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     Lina Inver?e (lina@eientei.org)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 23:03:06 JST Lina Inver?e

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     @vokainen099 @MK2boogaloo @sj_zero i remotely have an idea about that cuz i remember that one time some guy bought all the ran yakumo fumos and drove their prices up too far
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     Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 23:03:07 JST Vokainen

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     @lina @MK2boogaloo @sj_zero Imagine when your average customer experience becomes like buying a fumo :apugnome:
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     þernia (pernia@cum.salon)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 23:05:44 JST þernia

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     @lina @vokainen099 @MK2boogaloo @sj_zero imagine buying the whole stock of those reddit plushes, glazing all of them with cum and then selling them back to those cucks that want them without cleaning up
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     Avatar of Chaos (mk2boogaloo@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 23:05:46 JST Avatar of Chaos

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     @vokainen099 @lina @sj_zero damn, I kinda understand. Youtubers who went from doing it in their free time to full time usually lost whatever made their stuff fun to watch in the first place.
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     Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 23:05:47 JST Vokainen

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     @MK2boogaloo @lina @sj_zero He got increasingly repetitive and soulless. Part of it obvs is the increasing difficulty in finding new content to talk about, but since he dropped his actual job to do YouTube you kinda feel he's less himself
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     Avatar of Chaos (mk2boogaloo@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Mar-2025 23:05:48 JST Avatar of Chaos

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     @vokainen099 @lina @sj_zero he stopped being cozy?
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     EdBoatConnoisseur (edboatconnoisseur@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 00:13:50 JST EdBoatConnoisseur

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     @Pawlicker @Suiseiseki @MK2boogaloo it is the whole tool composing vs integrated tool, rar was innovative back in the day when it came to integrating all the functions of more traditional utilities (ar/tar, split+cat, gpg/mycrypt), meanwhile other formats embraced the unix style composability, the only format that embraced the idea of an integrated archiving and compression tool WHILE keeping composability in mind has been 7z (as far as i know)

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     EdBoatConnoisseur (edboatconnoisseur@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 00:13:50 JST EdBoatConnoisseur

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     @Pawlicker @Suiseiseki @MK2boogaloo To put an example of composability, say you take a collection of files that is 8GB, you make that collection into an archive with tar and compress with say xz to produce kek_files.tar.xz, then encrypt that with mycrypt to use a password (openssl for an arbitrary keypass or gpg for your gpg key) so u got kek_file.tar.xz.crypt which then would be operated by split to create 512MB chunks, so you'll end up with a list of files like kek_files.tar.xz.crypt.x01 to .x16, you can finally upload those files and whoever downloads them will know they need to cat all 16 pieces into a single .crypt file, unencrypt that with mycrypt and the password, then extract the tar.xz archive as usual, the convenience of that is that every compression format only needs to implement compression, not any of the archiving, splitting and encrypting shenanigans.

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     Pawlicker (pawlicker@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 00:13:51 JST Pawlicker

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     @Suiseiseki @MK2boogaloo @EdBoatConnoisseur yeah there's a reason why a guy I know hosting hundreds of iso files uses rar though and it's because of what I just said
     
     Why does it not integrate shit that other file formats can do fine? Oh wait you're a professional arguer who wished he could have been as cool as the tapout shirt guys in school