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  • Those compressions are a piece of art, hate that it takes hours to unpack them.

    I might dig through old hard drives and compress everything since I barely touch them anyways. Definitely missing out on the compression revolution

  • I'm sure, but most use cases for archives isn't to reduce file size but rather have them neatly packaged into 1 file.

    If I wanted to save space on my device, I'd probably use a tar ball or 7zip. And even then it depends a lot on what kind of files are being compressed. Images and music files don't nearly have the same level of compression as text.

    Edit: 7z supremacy

  • It's not solving anything novel that zip isn't already doing and zip format already has the benefit of reaching the market early. The slight benefit will be overlooked until a big marketing campaign sways a huge population (like iPhone adapting it as standard)

    Windows and mac both support .zip natively, until 7z joins this category there's no reason for an average person to manually download an extra software they've never heard of like unarchiver or 7-zip

  • Zip is a standard format, there's a reason for having standardized workflows and no one should be punished for using those. If I primarily use 7z I'd still send zip archives like you said.

    Make things easy for people around you

  • Redundancy. I have 4 drives and the older two drives are always a backup of music and media. I can lose all the save games and softwares since they'll be outdated anyways but memories need to be preserved.

    The kind of media I don't have backup of is from my Handycam tapes since they no longer make the software and I don't know how to digitize them in any other way.