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j, 7 days ago

@nosleep it also is about as bad as things here in the US, maybe even worse.

j, 21 days ago

@sun @alex I know @graf was appearing as @A39CxINo2LsalsgiPI.graf@poa.st

j, 21 days ago

@Herman_Hetherington @alex @caekislove @sun it's a bug
I can't follow @alex either

j, 21 days ago

@Monsignor_DickFace @alex @caekislove @Herman_Hetherington @sun I applied my thermal paste using the crucifix method

j, 21 days ago

@echo @zemichi yeah I know.

Gotta say I was a fan of that Pepsi commercial about the riots back in the day but I kind of want RC to triumph. What if we make RC the official right wing soda?

j, 23 days ago

@lunarised @nosleep I use .tzst for pretty much everything now. Roughly the same compression as gzip at insane speeds. It can outperform other algorithms on a lot of samples as well. Now that window natively supports it and zstd is being included with most distros so it's basically at the same level of support as zip about 3 years after the launch of XP

j, 23 days ago

@lunarised @nosleep @p just wanted a fresh start

Zstd is even supported in the Linux kernel now. You can use zstd for kernel compression. I really see no reason to continue using xz when zstd is a thing. Plus I've never really liked the xz program or file format.

j, 23 days ago

@nosleep @lunarised 7z is fine if you use zstd?
https://github.com/mcmilk/7-Zip-zstd

j, 23 days ago

@lunarised @nosleep @p pretty sure :p: will only recommend using bzip2

j, 23 days ago

@lunarised @nosleep @p zstd (the program) can also be used to create .gz, .xz, and .lz4 in addition to .zst.

I'm curious to know if it's any faster or different at creating those. I've never tested.

j, 23 days ago

@nosleep @lunarised yeah the software is pretty decent.
The extreme compression is meh.

Is it worth it to spend an extra 2 hours compressing a 4GB file only to shave an extra 20 MB off? Not really. At least not in most circumstances.

However with https://github.com/mcmilk/7-Zip-zstd you can easily play with zstd (and a lot of other algorithms) all in the same application you know and love.

j, 23 days ago

@lunarised @nosleep @p Here is a test I did with defaults. The test file is a 24.6 GB AI model. Each tool was given 14 threads. xz took 19 minutes and 40 seconds so just shy of 20 minutes. Zstd only took 1 minute while the laptop was already thermal throttling from the xz test and it even managed to shave an extra 203MB off.

Literally why would you use gzip, lzma(2), etc. when zstd is a thing? I just don't get why this is a debate.
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j, 23 days ago

@lunarised @nosleep @p Couldn't figure out how to set the thread limit on pigz so it got 16 threads About half the speed I got with zstd but that was bottlenecked by my ssd anyway. You see it when you look at the user time.
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j, 23 days ago

@lunarised @nosleep @p The fact that zstd has been added to filesystems, kernels, etc. and it's FOSS and an ISO standard so I don't see you having any issues opening a zst file in the future.

j, 21 days ago

@p @nosleep @lunarised damn this nigga's dick is as big as a 2 litre :pepsi: bottle