I can understand zip, 7z, and tar. But RAR? My only experience with RAR files comes from malware and warez (illegally distributed software, often compromised). Perhaps my own experience is just biased.
You are most likely biased. I use RAR for most of my own larger archives, even on Linux (i use WinRAR via Wine - and yes i bought WinRAR some years ago :-P), mainly because its compression is much faster with comparable results to something like 7z/txz/etc.
I use rar for backups as well. Its superpower is recovery records. Reading bytes off a hard disk doesn't always work the same years later. I have seen corruption on hdds.
Also use it to span backups across multiple archival M-Disc blurays.
I also prefer the UI and configurable dictionary size to 7zip. Rar lets you isolate each file if you wish instead of solid compression. Ever had to insert 2 blurays just to get a 3kb text file out of an archive?
I guess it depends on your region. In Eastern Europe, RAR seems to be more popular than ZIP (that's why, I think, you mostly saw it on warez sites because they are often managed by East Europeans)
So long as it's just extraction that's cool. There will always be old data around and not having to install a third party app to extract it then I can't see a problem. Allowing extraction doesn't encourage anyone to create more rar archives.
But yes, the only people who use it these days are the people who started using it long ago and just never switched.
Safely letting users easily see what's in a suspicious RAR before just blindly extracting it or opening it in third party software (possibly with known/unknown exploits) sounds like a good security feature for an OS.
Rar used to be the option of choice when you had file upload size limits, then you could use multivolume.
7z does this now, so it is legacy stuff I come across I use RAR for. I am not aware of any advantage for RAR over 7z. I rarely have to use multivolume these days anyways.
I was thinking about this when it was announced and I wonder if the motivation was somewhere else at Microsoft to scan these archives for malware on their cloud platform and someone just hacked the code to run on desktop windows or if it came along for the ride when Microsoft was intending Win11 to be an android killer for phones.
If you have many friends that are windows power users, there's a high chance they'll use rar if they ever have files to send you. This may be indicative of their cultural familiarity with the warez scene, but they use it for anything. I've received rars from people of their own music, photos, projects, etc.
A long time ago RAR offered the best compression(lowest archive size) in a free(*endless trial) tool compared to other formats. I think only bzip2 in Linux offered a similar level of compression.
RAR is great for long-term archiving without any additional tools. You can add recovery records, and even create recovery files (think parity / PAR files) all in one go.
I wouldn't know what to do with a RAR file on a Linux machine, and I've used Linux for over 20 years (and Unix before that? Don't even ask, youngster.) I mean, yeah, I'd figure it out; but I've not had the need.
As sibling commenters said, you're probably thinking of .tar. Now that I run into a lot. :-)
I probably installed it many years ago from the repositories. Now that linux gaming is so good I've been seeing 7z and rar being used for game mods a lot.
What? In my experience, RAR is extremely un-Linux. It's not free software and not command-line friendly, and it seems mostly to be used by piracy weirdoes who need to split up files for uploading to newsgroups.
If you're on Linux, you make .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 or something. Or .zip, I guess you see sometimes. But RAR? That's a windows people thing, in my experience.
Which rocks or minerals fluoresce in the ultraviolet to near ultraviolet end of the spectrum? I'd have to look that up but it could help understand the origin of the lights that are observed which can't be tied to infrastructure issues, weather, etc.
(B) Unexpected single point of failure (like a critical piece of hardware) and they need to rush-order a replacement.
(C) They can't identify the cause. (Doubtful.)
or
(D) Cascading failure. When they fix one thing, something else takes them down. Like a large queue of pending jobs that floods and crashes them when they come back up.
On one hand, I'm glad I don't depend on Square for purchases.
On the other hand, who's to say that my own payment provider can't have this same kind of problem?
These are different state by state, but Anti-SLAPP is meant to protect from vexatious litigants, that is someone rich threatening to sue you to shut you up. I'm not a lawyer, I just listen to Serious Trouble podcast.
Disclaimer: I'm not an attorney and this is not legal advice.
1. Can you claim that GPT are your initials? (Is your name George Patrick Tanner? Gina Parker Taylor?)
2. If you are using it for AI, then you're not going to be able to show that "GPT" is a term of art predating their company. The first appearance of the term for AI is from a paper by OpenAI.
3. Check the dates. Did you register your domain name before they filed their patent/trademark? (They filed in on Feb 3, 2023.) If so, then you have an argument for prior art.
4. Don't make an offer to sell (even in jest) without talking to an attorney. They could interpret it as a bad-faith negotiation and take the domain.
5. Do you plan to use the web site for something unrelated to AI? Information about GUID Partition Tables? Goniopora Toxin? General-purpose technologies? Generalized probabilistic theory? Grounded practical theory? Anything like this doesn't compete with their trademark.
Or in other words, we didn't get to find out how well it would work.
> Robertson opined that – had legal proceedings ensued – Rowe would have made a strong argument for keeping his domain, as he was using his real name and was not claiming to be affiliated with Microsoft.
>> Or in other words, we didn't get to find out how well it would work.
What small company or individual has the tens of thousands of spare dollars to actually litigate/defend? It doesn't matter if a settlement was reached or whether a strong argument was made --- if you have to spend 10k, or 15k, or 20k to go retain lawyers...it hasn't worked out well!
I have been so incredibly impressed by System76. Professional, easy to work with, open source, and great quality. I used to run a Dell-only shop, but my last few systems have been System76. (Oh, and they don't spam you ever few months like Dell.)
Not a paid advertiser. Just a very happy customer.
We ordered four pangolins from System76 and had issues with three out of four. Two were sent back for motherboard issues (video and power) and one was sent back because a metal support bracket had come unglued and was bouncing around the inside of the laptop. To their credit they did accept our return of all four even though one of the four had not exhibited any issues. It was depressing for me because I had always thought System76 was supposed to be the best Linux machines. The higher end Dell laptops are "the new ThinkPads of yesterday" as far as Linux support and solid machines go.
Compatibility with the higher end Dells has been great for me, but the hardware has been a raging dumpster fire in my experience. Monitors randomly turning off and on after the last firmware update, battery randomly deciding it's now at 5% even though seconds ago it said 60% (even after the battery replacement), fans failing and getting super rattly, the battery draining even when plugged into their $300 USB-C/thunderbolt dock I only have because they don't allow charging at >65W with non-Dell thunderbolt docks, etc. This is a $3000 Dell laptop. I'm never, ever buying a Dell laptop or recommending them if I can avoid it. Unfortunately this is my work laptop so any replacement is going to also be a Dell product...
If it weren't for the fact that I have to run Windows-only tooling for my job, I would have requested the Mac in an instant even though I'm generally not a fan of Apple.
I've used a dell latitude 5420 and I think it's got that quality. Always works. It has a few quirks (rarely hangs on suspend or similar) but no major problems.
The 5400s and 5410s had tons of issues with power, heat, and general acpi funkiness but the 5420s and 5430s have been rock solid for my org. I really want an AMD 14" Latitude but I don't think that's happening any time soon.
So interestingly enough, the Pangolin is the first laptop model I am aware of from System76 that isn't an outright Clevo chassis (via Sager). I don't know all the facts but I did find this interesting reddit comment:
Which suggests there are pretty major changes to how they have previously done laptops:
1) The manufacturer is Emdoor(?) instead of Clevo. (I have never personally heard of Emdoor)
2) Final assembly is done in-house @ System76 instead of via Sager. That is assembly for Pangolin is done in Denver at the same place the Theelios desktops and Launch keyboards are made.
While not necessarily all in-house yet, both of these changes are a pretty massive difference so as a former owner of several System76 laptops, I am curious how much better the Pangolin is.
Edit: So after doing some googling, it seems like Emdoor is a Chinese manufacturer out of Shenzen (https://www.emdoordigi.com/about.html?category_id=0). Personally, not sure moving from a Taiwanese manufacturer to a Chinese one is actually a good thing...but still curious none-the-less.
> Personally, not sure moving from a Taiwanese manufacturer to a Chinese one is actually a good thing...but still curious none-the-less.
As somebody working in a related space, _any_ diversification is a good thing simply because it forces System76 to redesign its processes to become less Clevo-specific.
Once you start, you're going to have a hard time to find an ODM that's willing to teach you the ropes _and_ accept that you're not a single-ODM shop _and_ deal with whatever fancies S76 brings up, so that limits options. (Any of these mean that S76 will be a high-maintenance customer for Emdoor, and these three more than compound in that way)
For what it's worth I used a Clevo (branded as Medion) laptop as my daily driver for about 6 years, while backpacking around the world. The thing was a tank and still works as my backup at about 9 years old now. It's been through rainforests and deserts and up mountains and definitely got damp in a few rainstorms. Some keys on the keyboard no longer work and the bearings on the fan are very worn out. But that thing is a tank.
They rebadge (mostly) Clevo laptops, which isn't inherently a problem. The value add is supposed to be in the QA/software side of things to ensure the devices work well with Linux (so far, so good).
Well, my Lemur Pro 10 suffered from multiple different bugs in their half-baked Coreboot firmware. They ripped out the default BIOS to replace it with a more open alternative (laudable!) but the process resulted in bugs that prevented sleep and caused the UEFI boot order to be reset at various times.
They shouldn't have shipped a device with bugs like this, but I was left waiting over a year to get both fixed. On a generic box which I've supposedly paid extra for the support!
Compare this to my Dell XPS13, which shipped with Linux on it too, and never had any such issues.
I admire their objectives, but the reality of the System76 experience is severely lacking compared to the ideal.
Isn’t their pricing pretty unfriendly? I was looking at the Thelio, which starts at $1000 and then any upgrade costs about sticker price. (e.g. upgrading to the i5-13600K, which retails for $320, costs $315.)
It basically seemed to translate to a $1k markup for assembling the PC (and the case, I guess).
Have bought from System76 for years, got a Thelio desktop a year and a half ago that I have been happy with (I run Ubuntu, not PopOS). My Nvidia card only has 12 gigs VRAM but I have had it grinding away on Stable Diffusion, LLAMA etc.
The Dells are far and away better machines. I have a five year old XPS13 and a year old XPS17. They are great. My only caveat is that I only buy them with Intel/AMD video cards.
The XPS13 is far from "great"; it overheats, the battery life is poor, and the speakers are straight out of the 90s. I have one and I regret buying it.
My dell xps was poorly designed and clearly the focus was on hitting spec numbers than actual usability. The touchpad stopped registering input every few seconds momentarily, enough for a lot of people not to notice. I assumed minor software or hardware fix, they sent 2 engineers to my home who proceeded to replace different parts of the laptop to no success. OS did not fix it. Apparently just poorly selected hardware from vendor at design phase. The overheating CPU was a similar story. Going for thinness over function as its easier to market how it looks.
