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Do you ever feel like you have to apologize for .7z archives?

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Like when you send a .7z instead of a .zip or .rar to a friend or a teacher because that’s what your computer has installed and they’re like “Oh No, not one of those, now I have to install 7Zip” even though the same program that opens .rar also opens .7z I feel like people are way more annoyed when they receive a .7z

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Gleddified@lemmy.ca
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Go out of your way to compress files into tar.gz to freak the normies

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katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Compress a tar.gz into a 7z into a rar into a zip

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bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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I always send a targz first and only upon request will I send anything else

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𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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I did that once. They didn’t even notice. Really bummed me out. To be fair, it was after I had them install 7Zip, so the fault is mine. Haha

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twistedtxb@lemmy.ca
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Could be worse: I was all for the .ARJ church back then. LHA was also considered

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Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org
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Trading disks back in high school we’d exclusively use arj, and intentionally roll the “r” sound because arrrrrj 🏴‍☠️

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