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There are lemonade stands making more money than OpenAI. Right now. In January. In sub-freezing weather.
Ice cold lemonade is really good.
and doesn’t kill the planet or support fascism!
Setting a pile of money on fire is more profitable then openai. Like you can not physically shovel enough to come close to even a tiny amount of what openai goes though.
Thats because winrar is useful.
It’s is not useful. It is fucking great.
Its kind of shit and always has been. Winrar love is pure nostalgia.
Its icon is good I will admit that.
Wait till you learn about 7zip…
7zip didn’t exist when winrar was released… im pretty sure anyway…
7zip didn’t exist when winrar was released… im pretty sure anyway…
Fact check: TRUE
Winrar released April 1995, and 7zip released January 1999 according to Wikipedia.
Yeah there was a time when winrar was basically the best option for zip files it made it easy…
There was Winzip before.
Yeah, but it was a poster child for nagware. Edit to be fair so did WinRAR, but that sweet sweet compression and multi-volume splitting made it the best tool for those sailing a jolly roger on those slow, stormy seas…
Absolutely brutal. I love it.
I want that WinRAR bag
That’s absolutely hilarious. All the times I’ve either patched Winrar or ignored the 40 day subscription nagging did not matter for their bottom line at all.
All the times I’ve either patched Winrar or ignored the 40 day subscription nagging did not matter for their bottom line at all.
You individually? No. But RARLAB aren’t saps; the “40-day limit”™ transforms their software from nagware into something valuable the user is “getting away with”. If one or two stray consumers happen to purchase a license based off of that, then excellent. The real kicker, though, is that a culture where everyone uses WinRAR for creating and extracting archives is one where they can push a ton of business licenses – one of the main reasons e.g. Microsoft will often provide Office to universities at steep discounts. By using WinRAR, you act as a brick in the wall of WinRAR’s (thankfully waning) hegemony, even just by giving it word-of-mouth or not using competing software.
They want you to feel like you’re getting more value than you are out of a product that is near-strictly inferior to free and open-source software with a public domain compression algorithm like 7-Zip. This has been common knowledge for over a decade.
4.83 Million USD is quite a lot.
I wonder if Berlin Berlin is different than Berlin Germany
It’s the city of Berlin in the state of Berlin (similar to New York City, NY).
The country Germany consists of 16 states.!subscribe BerlinFacts
I did not know that about Berlin. Thanks for the info
It’s called Stadtstaaten (city states) and there are 3 of them (of the 16 states altogether).
How is 7-Zip superior to Winrar? Every time I tried using 7-Zip it felt a little… weird to use, plus every RAR file I tried to use with it was a pain in the ass. But then again the last time I used it was like… uh, 14 years ago?
It’s faster, has more algorithms, you can choose your compression type. It’s also been standard as the choice for at least a decade now.
https://www.xda-developers.com/reasons-to-use-7-zip-over-winrar/
That’s not directed at you, but RAR archives are so inconvinient to deal with I’m surprised to even see one in the wild. ZIPs may be created and opened by most file managers nowadays, and it’s not so much to compress files with modern bandwidht, but to collect multiple files as one package. The RAR formar times are seemingly almost over.
rar and 7-zip are both compression formats as well as applications, so it can help to not get them confused. 7-zip as a compression format is simply more advanced and better than rar, which should be expected as it’s a newer format.
As for the software used to interact with the compressed archives, the official 7-zip client isn’t as streamlined and as nice as WinRAR, but it is open source and cross platform. And it’s not the only option, there are other applications that can be used to open 7-zip files (maybe WinRAR can even do it). Nanazip is a nice option that I’m currently using on Windows. But it’s ultimately a personal decision and comes down to whatever you prefer.
More useful too.
The poop in my pants makes more money than OpenAI
apparently fecal donors can get 500 bucks per shit
Kinda like a rich person saying “You have more money than I do because you only have $100k in debt” to a normal person because they have a $2 million dollar loan for a house, but only have $500k in easily liquidated assets.
Ah man that takes me back,….to when windows was somewhat useable.
Windows got market power because they took the term “Personal Computer” seriously. It was yours, and you could put what you wanted on it. They are now heading down Apples path of proprietry ownership, without Apples flair.
Loving Linux Mint atm. Maybe it’ll help me get more adventurous with other distros?
Adventures are nice, but it seems I always come home to Mint.
Distro hoping is quite fun. Load up a vm or have a test ssd and play around
You probably will. And it’s a lot of fun.
I am also very old
Yes? They don’t care it’s an infinite money glitch where big corporations pretend that they are in a growth phase and give each other money by using shares that they can print at will.
Then I’ll hurry up and buy some WinRAR stocks!
I want to know what unprofitable businesses are still more profitable than WinRAR.
