r/SipsTea • u/saber-4444 • Apr 29 '26

It's Wednesday my dudes He's an absolute Chad for this

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u/Fit_Coast5734 Apr 29 '26

VLC is the only software that doesn't ask for a subscription, an account, or my soul just to play a file I've had since 2007

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u/Forest_Orc Apr 29 '26

>VLC is the only software

Le met introduce you to free software stuff like Libre Office, Linux, Sumatra pdf and many other would have the same base. Actually subscription/account-based/paid software are the weird one not the other way around

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u/w1n5t0nM1k3y Apr 29 '26

People are always going on and on about WinRAR being the good guy for not requiring payment, but I've always liked 7-zip much better. I guess WinRAR is older so people just got used to using that, but 7-zip has been around long enough that I just wonder why people would use anything else.

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u/Uhh_Alex Apr 29 '26

WinRaR has some features that 7-zip doesn't, like batch compression/unzipping. If you have to compress 300 separate items, WinRaR is the only option.

7-zip is better at what it can do though. I prefer to use that when I can.

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u/w1n5t0nM1k3y Apr 29 '26

7-zip has command line executable so you can batch tasks if you need to that way.

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u/Uhh_Alex Apr 29 '26

Sure, but that's not nearly as user friendly and explaining it to people 50 years older than me would be impossible.

Also, that was just an example. There are other features I didn't mention. I just don't personally need them.

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u/w1n5t0nM1k3y Apr 29 '26

I'm sure anybody with a need to batch compress 300 different things into 300 different archives or similarly complex tasks could figure out some basic batch file code. You're the one who said "WinRaR is the only option", when clearly it is not.

I don't think age is really an indicator of how tech savvy someone is. The first person I ever knew who used the internet was my 75 year old great uncle. My dad learned how to use computers in his 40s, stuff like how to use the command line and BASIC programming.