• Chronographs@lemmy.zip
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    3 months ago

    Hidden file extensions is such a terrible default it amazes me that Microsoft is still doing that

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      3 months ago

      macOS does this too shockingly despite using the file extension as a “hint” to the file type. I think it’s unique in that most UNIX/Linux systems use magic number and Windows blindly accepts that the file is of the type that matches the extension.