Reminds me of stupid me after I received a ginormous family inheritance I went through a phase of buying every stupid little thing that I would’ve never bought before. It was sometime around the implosion of the John McAfee empire debacle I was vaguely aware that something was going awry with him & the company but I was lost in my own little world buying post-it notes at a Staples store.
At the checkout counter the employee brought my attention to a small display of heavily discounted McAfee antivirus software something-something for only $5 and all my conscious brain knew at the time was
“Wow, didn’t that used to cost $40-$75? and McAfee has been in the news lately. I have no idea what’s going on but yes I will pay $5 for this thing.” 🤦🏼♀️
It was completely useless and I doubt I ever took it out of the package before eventually throwing it away.
This comic is so old that at some point someone added Rage Comic faces on top of it, and that on itself must had happened more than 15 years ago.
Meme and a history lesson, A+ post everyone.
And ofc after that someone sloppified the Rage Comic version. You see the modified versions more often than the original.
Aww man - I just found out that one of the hospitals I work for has an active license for WinZip…
In the scale of dumb things to waste money on, WinZip is about as low as it gets (esp. in healthcare!), but still - it’s not like the poor bastards had any to begin with!
Could’ve just used 7-Zip
I know, right? I can’t wait to get some creative control in their SOE and fix things…
Someone, somewhere has a little fiefdom of stupidity, I’m sure of it.
my company still purchases 3 billion WinRAR licenses every year
Three Billion??? 3,000,000,000 licenses?
Yeah, mine too.
In b4 the “my company still purchases 3 billion WinRAR licenses every year” comments.
Aww…
Haha, I was an entire hour ahead of them.
Not only that I copied it verbatim from your comment!
Plagiarized, even.
I’ll wait to hear from your lawyers.
But comment was not in before the 3 billion comment?
I literally copied it from his post.
And now you learned that your client does not sort comments by time.
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Thank you WinRar for all your years of service. I eventually bought you, because of your value as a product, but to make an arrangement like ours, possible for other companies and group to try. Here’s the product, if you like it, give me some money. Fairest deal you’ll ever make.
Have you heard of 7zip?
As someone who also bought a WinRAR license ages ago: yes and I hate 7zip’s UI with a passion. Sorry, I’ll stick to WinRAR which suits my needs just fine.
Do people even still need to use WinRAR? I mean, the rar format isn’t even that prevalent anymore, not even for piracy stuff…
It was useful 20 years ago, but like, most OS have native support for it now, making it even further useless to download a WinRAR.
Which OS has native rar support?
3 years ago Windows added native support for RAR and 7z formats IIRC
Idk if Linux has any but i doubt it hasLinux does not have native rar support.
Yeah as i suspected, i was almost sure about RAR because of licensing issues
7-Zip has long replaced WinZip and WinRAR for me.
I use peaZip because I’m a hipster
I use PeaZip because it’s the only thing I’ve found that can handle the ancient ACE archive format.
Yeah I thought everyone used that. Why bother with Winrar?
I think it’s mostly out of spite.
For me it’s nostalgia…
Arj for life!
On earth we call it Ark actually
Literally the only reason WinRAR had ever been used is because people either didn’t know about 7zip, or their parents dropped them on their heads causing them to “prefer WinRAR” 🤮
I’ve always used 7zip but whenever I help a friend with tech stuff and they have winrar I find that its ui is better for browsing archives without extracting it (from what I remember, I haven’t used windows 7zip for a year now and on linux I just use ark)
Nana Zip is a fork of 7 Zip with a nicer UI, you may want yo look in to it
I like nanazip, it’s also pretty good at handling encryption like 7zip as well. Exceedingly useful feature which the Windows 7z parser can’t manage.
7zip’s UI is fine, it’s just basic and doesn’t look as nice, but why would it need to? It’s UI definitely doesn’t make it difficult to use.
7zip is not only free, but it doesn’t ask you for money at all, it just works, and it supports extracting RAR files as well. It is true that WinRAR technically USED to be better, when 7zip was still fairly new, but literally the only reason anyone still prefers it today is nostalgia.
WinRAR supports compression and extraction of all types. If you have winRAR, you can make a .7z and a .rar and a .zip and .gzip and .iso and a .tar and a…
I haven’t used WinRar since I discovered 7zp hella years ago. Not only is 7zp 100% free, it’s faster and has better compression than WinRAR.
It’s what I used for an extremely long time, so i just sort of… kept using it. I’ve only recently swapped to 7-Zip. I think the only feature it has that 7-Zip doesn’t is making part files? But I could be wrong.
You can make split archives with 7Zip, no problem.
Aren’t part files useless nowdays? We have better connections and download managers that can restart the download where you left it
I can’t tell you the last time I saw one, so… I guess? I doubt they’d be useless, there’s probably one absurdly specific use case that absolutely needs them. But they’re definitely less common.
part files is what made WinRAR so popular with the piracy community. Especially back in the before times, when you were direct downloading and an internect hiccup would cause a download to fail/restart. Being able to download a thing in smaller parts, only having to restart smaller chunks instead of the whole, and then assembling the whole build as one… that’s what made WinRAR useful…
Compression was nice and all too, but self executing part assembly was the standout feature. Again, rendered useless when download managers are built into modern broswers. You can retry a direct download without having to restart the whole file.
the file splits, yea. but it was the recovery records that winrar has that made it become the de facto standard in that place we don’t talk about.
In ancient times, 2010, I actually bought Winrar. I wanted to support the developer. Even back then as a child, I found it so cool that someone would give me a very useful tool like this for free, with an infinite free trial. And then I found out about FOSS, after that my mind was blown.
Fuck yea. Be the change you want to see!
Pretty sure this guy makes a fuck ton off winRar
Yep, it’s kind of a racket. The license popup is there to let people know that, hey, technically you have to buy this… but they don’t care if Joe Blow buys it, it’s free for you, you single-serve mother fucker. A company, though? A company has to buy a copy for every user, and that adds up.
It also acts as a training system so that workers are more familiar with it already, when they have to use to at work. It adds value to their product that everyone is familiar with it already so companies don’t have to train them to use it.
Rocket jump made a whole skit about this exact thing.
CEO: Holy fuck, those are numbers?
After using winrar for years (after using rar years before that… not sure if it’s the same company), I finally bought to copies a few years back. One for myself, one as a Christmas gift to a friend.
rar and winrar are from the same dude (Roshal ARchive, he named it after himself) and his brother handles the business side of things, been this way since the 90s. I THINK they’re still the owners of it. But these days, the company is registered in Germany and the legal representatives are actually some Turkish guys. I suspect it’s because they founded the company in Germany but live in Russia themselves and perhaps Germany requires legal representatives to be residents? Anyway the company’s been the main distributor since like 2002 so at the very least it’s still the same company it was 24 years ago.
