LucidNightmare

My new go to plan. Thank you for the idea!

I can confidently say the HDDs I bought before Christmas last year are double the price I bought them for.

This was me. After I “proved” myself to be a “worthy” employee, the raises came. I also work in an environment where things are still pretty old school though, so take that will a giant grain of salt.

Seriously. I must use my computer way out of the norm that most Linux people do. I don’t even like updating my desktop Fedora 44 because at times, the update will mess up a workflow that I finally got going on there. Small shit that adds up.

Recent update apparently changed how Steam and my Proton Mail Bridge can start at login. I can start them normally through the icon on the task bar, but no more autostart. Why???

I guess I’ll need to spend some time figuring that out this weekend…

I’ll be honest with you, I never cared about any of that stuff when I was younger, so it wouldn’t have made much of a difference to me back then.

As I said, the zipped file was not a RAR file, but this was almost 20 years ago, so that is a bit fuzzy. 7zip was much slower for the file that I unzipped, that much I do know! I still remember seeing a progress bar on 7zip, which I had never seen before on WinRAR (unless it was one of those multipart files, which was rare even then for me!). That is what stood out to me and why I can remember it so well. I even remember asking myself, “Why do people prefer 7zip if it is slower?”!

I will say these days I don’t use WinRAR, and just stick with Nanazip and Ark! I care more about stuff like that now though, so I appreciate you giving me more context! :-)

So, a long time ago, I tried using 7zip for extracting a zip file or similar. I don’t think it was a RAR file at the very least. I noticed that 7zip was slower than WinRAR, which is what I had always used since it was the first I’d heard of a program that could unzip files.

Fast forward a few years, I had some money and bought a WinRAR license, just because I liked the program that much.

Fast forward a few more years, and I use Nanazip on Windows and Ark on KDE/Fedora.

I will always remember the book stack icon for zips/RARs/etc. fondly and just how much faster (again way way back in the day). Multipart RARs were how I got a lot of stuff back in the day, even larger mods!

Anyway, I know it is popular to hate on WinRAR, but for me, it will always be remembered fondly for what it was. :,-)

Nanazip

Pokemon Unbound is the best Pokemon game I have ever played. It only sucks because now I’m playing through other ROM hacks like Pokemon Prism, Pokemon Brown, Pokemon Glazed (Unofficial patched) and realizing that they will NEVER be as good as Unbound was. That is the only downside to Pokemon Unbound! :-P