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You know they have full trust in their project when their own installer is using 7zip to install 7zip.
Windows 11 context menu is ugly so I switched it back to the old style one and have all the 7zip context menu items I need. But this is good if you don't want to do that. Might try it out at a later date!
Uhm? No.
Russia and China-backed hackers are exploiting WinRAR zero-day bug https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/18/russia-sandworm-fancy-bear-china-winrar-zero-day/?guccounter=1
I also uninstall all software that has had security issues. Woops gotta delete Lemmy clients too.
Wild, I didn't know Windows included rar support now. RIP Winrar. Well, back to remembering the right flags to extract a tarball.
Two online services with server costs vs offline decompression software
Please stop making me defend the corporations I beg
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Whenever I come across a .rar I think, what are the life decisions that led to someone to package this way?
Smaller and faster program that's completely free instead of free-ish. Their .7z format is also better than the .rar format, compressing files even smaller. It also works with .rar files, as a bonus.
I've searched for it and it's free and open source, you can always compile from source https://peazip.github.io/
Debian delivers a very good compressed file support as is. I'm good.
But I still recommend it for those friends/acquaintances that still use Windows. It is so user friendly.
It's a compression and decompression program. If you've ever heard of the ZIP file format, then this program basically opens and creates ZIP files (and other files in similar formats, such as RAR).
I got mine off limewire, and it came with a free zip file to test it out.
Considerate of them to make it 65kb to not take up too much space.
Same with sublime text. "We'll only bug you every 50 saves about buying a license."
I can live with that.
And Emby media server. "Once in a while we'll have a 10 second delay to start the movie."
Maybe only on Linux? I actually would buy one because I love the product so much and I want to support the developers. But $99 is a bit steep.
Onetime for around 30 bucks. Yeah, 7zip is free and I used that but I had to repair a corrupted rar archive. It worked and I was thankful for that so I bought it.