• conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    I already addressed compression. It’s as entirely trivial to whitelist those cases as it is to do in the first place.

    Again, I said it’s not magic. But most of these cases are inattention that would be reduced meaningfully if Windows made them actually pick what file type they were opening. There’s a big gap between “advanced users” who will notice that it’s the only file with an extension and morons who will just skip everything no matter what it says.

    • Aniki 🌱🌿
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      4 months ago

      Don’t bother with teh MS apologists. They are the worst.

      If the operating system doesn’t know the file and the type of file, it’s a bad operating system.

      It should be trivial to have an OS determine the file type and display a warning if the extension doesn’t match.

      Posix has had file for decades.