• PuppyOSAndCoffee@lemmy.ml
    22·
    1 year ago

    You do you. Compression is waste of time; storage is cheap in that you can get more, but time? Time, you never get back.

    • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • PuppyOSAndCoffee@lemmy.ml
        01·
        1 year ago

        Unless you measure your baud in dial up modem, it often can take longer to compress / transport / uncompress than just transfer directly.

    • russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.netEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      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.