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I dont understand why windows now hides file extensions by default
One take is that 'normal' users get 'scared' by extensions and do strange things like break their file by renaming the extension away or think they can literally convert a file between types by changing the extension.
And so they hide it away.
But it's bad logic because breaking things by trying to do weird stuff is how any of us who are technically literate became that way in the first place; by fucking around and finding out.
I remember reading in a book that it was hard to actually break Windows, so I loved messing about in the settings. It was probably the 95 or 98 days where I turned on file extensions on my profile and never looked back.
I also played a part in infecting the family PC with about 500 different types of adware, but oh well.
I remember when I learnt you can customise the default icons for My Computer and the Recycling bin, so I used the image in the book or magazine as a reference and manually edited every pixel to make them golden.
I was big into those magazines on how to tweak/modify Windows to go faster. One day I was reading up on compressing a hard drive to save space. So I compressed C: to save space. Sure learned a lot those years!
Being technically literate? You surely meant to say enemy of technocracy...
The problem is that if you hide it away, you make users more stupid which then it creates the problem you try to solve
Mac (I think), iOS, and Android do.
Android doesn't
That's the "File" app which is the default file manager on all android phones (except a few brands that have their own thing but the app File is still there usually)
Check your homescreen though.
You mean the homescreen of the file app? The screenshot is from there
I assume you mean the file app because the homescreen of my phone nor other many phones i saw and used had files next to the apps
Apps have extensions, so do links
Android launchers ask to the system which apps are installed and which shortcuts were added, it's not like desktop OSes
They aren't installed to a folder that the homescreen just displays, the homescreen launcher just asks android what apps are installed and displays their icons and when you press it, it asks android to launch the app, but yhere is a folder in data where there are system app apks but I haven't checked for non system apps. Edit: The files app also doesn't hide .apk extensions
Ultimately it doesn't matter because file extensions are just for readability.
Because they want to push power users away with hundreds of tiny cuts
Because for the significant majority of users it doesn't matter.
Is telling if you are opening a virus trying to disguise itself as another file type not significant for the majority of users?
Does it? I always see them.