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minus-squarePuppyOSAndCoffee@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·1 year agoYou do you. Compression is waste of time; storage is cheap in that you can get more, but time? Time, you never get back.
minus-squareEager Eagle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoas in time wasted transferring a highly compressible file that you didn’t bother compressing first? it’s only a waste of time when the file format is already compressed.
minus-squarerussjr08@outpost.zeuslink.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoYes, and I’d rather not have my time wasted by waiting on thousands of small files transfer, rather than just compressing it and the time spent of one file transferring being much smaller.
You do you. Compression is waste of time; storage is cheap in that you can get more, but time? Time, you never get back.
as in time wasted transferring a highly compressible file that you didn’t bother compressing first?
it’s only a waste of time when the file format is already compressed.
Yes, and I’d rather not have my time wasted by waiting on thousands of small files transfer, rather than just compressing it and the time spent of one file transferring being much smaller.