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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

This 'compress' everything is such a waste of CPU and energy. Plus "oops, all your files are gone, tee hee". GZ everywhere is fucking stupid. More complexity for zero benefit.

- CTO at my previous company

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I only tar my game backups, because compression time for 0.5% is wasted time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

To be fair: there are many things where compression is a waste of CPU time, like fonts and about 90% of non-text media as they're already compressed

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

What, you don't love downloading a zip file that contains an msi (which is perfectly capable of internally compressing much of its internal data)?