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.
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)
I dont understand why windows now hides file extensions by default
Does it? I always see them.
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.
The problem is that if you hide it away, you make users more stupid which then it creates the problem you try to solve
Being technically literate? You surely meant to say enemy of technocracy…
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)
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?
Because they want to push power users away with hundreds of tiny cuts