tar just wraps, doesn’t compress. so more accurate would be the pillows in a looser bag that doesn’t squish them even a little :)
yourfiles.tar.xz
Looks more like a one-way hash to me.
Reminds me of the “grandma .zip” meme
Naw thats grandma.mp3 or grandma.jpg because thats clearly lossy compression not lossless.
Yay this is now a URL. If your intention was not to post a URL to some random website not loading anything but javadscript, put a space inside
“Example .com”
Fuck Google
Oops, yeah that was my intention lol. I’ll put some invisible unicode character after the dot, maybe that would do it.
I do NOT understand how zip is still the default. I use .tgz wherever I can.
Because of your comment, I did a quick google search and pretty much every source says that .tar.gz is also pretty ancient and not that good (from a compression point of view). For better compression, you can use the xz or 7zip formats. The former is more used on Linux, if that’s what you’re using.
Compatibility with literally anything under the sun that can decompress a compressed file.
But isn’t that’s given with tgz too?
Except of course Windows iircWindows, Android, iOS do not open them by default.
You can do it on iOS using Siri Shortcuts.
I don’t get how they add all these formats to Shortcuts but only Zip into the file app…
Spotted the Linux user
Why use this over .7z? I’m legit curious.
Also, 7z does not store file permissions. Doesn’t matter for a bunch of text/media files, but needed for distributing software.
Why use this over .xz? I’m legit curious.
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