Trial is 40 days. Not until you're 40

Posted by pikseladam on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @01:56PM
from the twitter.com dept.

https://twitter.com/WinRAR_RARLAB/status/2092182008319386067

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Re:Trial is 40 days. Not until you're 40 by teach on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @02:58PM (#49438886)

I paid for WinZip and for Paint Shop Pro and used them a bunch in the late 90s. But I switched to Linux in the early aughts and by then the free software versions had caught up sufficiently that I didn't really need to pay for software for a while.

I do pay for Sublime Text these days.

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Re:Trial is 40 days. Not until you're 40 by nubinetwork on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @04:34PM (#49440226)

Jokes on them, unrar on linux is free.

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Re:Trial is 40 days. Not until you're 40 by fugigigjfn on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @05:24PM (#49440870)

okay

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Re:Trial is 40 days. Not until you're 40 by pikseladam on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @01:34AM (#49444417)

why your username is green?

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Re:Trial is 40 days. Not until you're 40 by DougN7 on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @08:14AM (#49447641)

I believe it’s because the account is newish

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Re:Trial is 40 days. Not until you're 40 by pikseladam on Thursday August 27, 2026 @01:57PM (#49468702)

thanks

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Re:Trial is 40 days. Not until you're 40 by compsciphd on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @07:03AM (#49446890)

I mean unrar is included in windows now too....

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Re:Trial is 40 days. Not until you're 40 by CrimsonCape on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @04:55PM (#49440500)

Proud to say that by 40 I will be off Windows forever.

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Re:Trial is 40 days. Not until you're 40 by rubinlinux on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @07:24PM (#49442088)

https://imgur.com/a/DXZI1SJ since xcancel seems to have been killed by x, and the creator for some reason posted it only on X and linkedin.

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Re:Trial is 40 days. Not until you're 40 by hollow-moe on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @07:40PM (#49442229)

Imgur isn't better either, they aggressively block vpns and will lie to you "being in overcapacity".

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Re:Trial is 40 days. Not until you're 40 by M95D on Thursday August 27, 2026 @01:31AM (#49460174)

A couple of years ago I finally bought my WinRAR license and I also asked for a serial to use in DOS RAR, the tool I used as shareware for decades.

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