• ozymandias117@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    For your analogy, you can’t put more water in a sponge that is completely saturated

    Trying to compress a compressed file doesn’t really work - at least not for a meaningful gain in storage size with zip, bzip, 7zip, gzip, xz, lzma…