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Remember when it was a big deal if you chose .zip, .rar, or 7z, etc? Now we all have so much bandwidth it doesn't matter. (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

And then you get it all off the floppy's only to realize 10% of it is corrupted

[-] Swarfega@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Oh yes. CRC Error was it?

[-] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

And that's when you learned about parity files...

When par2 came out that was huge for me. Didn't use floppies anymore, but the ability to only download the required amount of parity blocks was great.

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