Whoever is responsible for making "hide known file extensions" the default behavior over at Microsoft is singularly responsible for causing more damages than just about anybody else in the tech industry. This single decision is easily the root cause of billions of dollars worth of disruptions, outages, data loss, and disclosures of private data over an 11 year timespan.
I was enraged the first time I encountered a Windows machine without file extensions. The rage became worse when I realized it wasn't the user who customized their computer this way, but that it was now the Windows default. Absolutely fucking maddening.
then you finally download something and it finishes in 2 seconds...
uh oh
Whoever is responsible for making "hide known file extensions" the default behavior over at Microsoft is singularly responsible for causing more damages than just about anybody else in the tech industry. This single decision is easily the root cause of billions of dollars worth of disruptions, outages, data loss, and disclosures of private data over an 11 year timespan.
I was enraged the first time I encountered a Windows machine without file extensions. The rage became worse when I realized it wasn't the user who customized their computer this way, but that it was now the Windows default. Absolutely fucking maddening.