maybe lemmy is like reddit too, where everyone assumes everyone is American 😅

I don’t really know the details but afaik it uses new algorithms introduced in windows 10 and there is virtually no overhead.

compact.exe, it’s a built-in tool in windows for compressing executables. there’s an open source GUI too, very useful for compressing games and the compression is “transparent” so you can still play the games after compressing. there’s more info on the page I linked