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What are you surprised that people pay for, when there are free alternatives in existence? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 1 year ago by Soulifix@kbin.melroy.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I was going through my Wal-Mart+ subscription plan that I got for free and I saw their offers. One of which was EMeals, that was a 60-day trial. I thought that this was like Blue Apron or other meal delivery services so I thought I'd take a crack at it and hope that it would get me on a path to eat better.

Turns out, it's just a meal planner. And it's absurd to me why and how would anyone pay for something when there are countless and countless recipes and meal planners readily available for free. Who'd the fuck would want to pay for a planner? That's like paying for a calendar app.

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[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

WinRAR is legitimately a great program and whomever made it deserves some compensation

[–] patatahooligan@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Maybe it was good 10-20 years ago. What's it got to offer today? Why should we use a proprietary format when there are faster and more space-efficient open formats widely available today?

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I compare features, speed and compression ratio's of a bunch of options about twice a year. Up until now, winrar kept coming out on top, at least for my dataset

[–] Broken@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I agree that winrar is better (or at least historically better since I don't routinely test like you do).

However the need to compress files is different than it has been. Storage space is always getting bigger and cheaper so I don't need to store anything compressed.

Compression is best for sharing files, which that has evolved greatly since the creation of rar files. And recently windows has added native 7z support so it's become the convenient choice.

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