So dumb that windows hides the file extension as default.
One of the first things I have to change on any PC I get my hands on. Same as mouse acceleration.
When i was a windows user, setting it to show file extensions was one of the first things that i would do after a installation
Same, and honestly I didn’t even think about security, I just need to know if this file will run on my [phone, xbox, zune, etc]. Do normal humans just not need to know whether this file is
Airplane.1980.720.x0r.avivsAirplane.1980.720.x0r.nfovsAirplane.1980.720.x0r.srt?Nah ConAir rules lmao.
Put the bunny back in the box.
Who was downloading 720 resolution videos on Limewire?
Tbf, windows still defaults to hide file extensions (which is what I was responding to, not limewire specifically, especially since it still applies to torrents today), at least last time I checked. If they finally changed that, it was too recent for comfort.
Given that I have worked with people who got confused when the start button stopped having the word “Start” on it I am going to disagree with you.
I can totally see somebody putting in a ticket because “it kept adding letters to the end of the file name when they saved”.
THOSE FUNNY LETTERS CONFUSE ME
you know what’s even dumber is that windows never learnt to identify files apart from its extension. every other modern operating system (e.g. everything unixlike) knows how to identify files even without file extensions
Yeah but then I can’t tell what filetypes they are. Having the type directly in the name is an awesome convention. And theoretically, it prevents the os from having to read every file’s contents. And it’s good for not having to use thumbnails. So you can have more condensed file browsing. It’s also better for proprietary filetypes and new things since the os doesn’t need to know wtf something is.
Your logic reminds me of using nondescript variable names in programming. Yes, the system will probably know, but I’m the user, I’m the person this is all for. And it’s good convention to have good naming convention. File extensions are nice to have and good convention.
fair enough but i have the unpopular opinion that file extensions should be a prefix not a suffix so that all files of the same type sort together
Mmmm… As long as the os treated it as separate from the filename. One of the reasons extensions exist is so that the name of the file doesn’t encroach with the self-identifying-filetype/extension. If you put it at the front as a prefix, you would lose the ability to have EITHER names of files OR extensions as separatable and simultaneous ordering systems.
Especially since it only associates by file extension.
It’s unreal! I don’t use it but sometimes I have to touch one and I honestly can’t tell how anyone gets anything done.
When I was a kid I visited my grandparents and since there was still only Internet Explorer on their terrible computer I decided to install Firefox.
Unfortunately the computer power supply died right after I did.
Therefore my Firefox installation was determined to be the root cause of the computer being ruined.
So yeah, Firefox apparently kills power supplies in some folklore.
And that’s what the fire in firefox means
When I came home for summer break after my freshman year of college I had to use my mom’s car to get around. Well my mom is the absolute worst person when it comes to auto maintenance. The 3rd day I was home and driving her car her engine blew a piston rod because the piston ceased in the cylinder. Turns out my mom never changed the oil. Like never ever. But because it happened while I was driving it was all my fault. I “must have been racing or doing something that caused the problem”. 25 years later she still thinks it was something I did.
When I was buying my last car I overheard a couple huffing and making a big show of walking out over the trade-in offer they were given for their vehicle. The sales person responded they could have offered a lot more if the oil had ever been changed in the vehicle
My mother is like this but worse. Some sort of tech in the house doesn’t behave as she expects? It’s obviously caused by that time I used it 3 months ago. It doesn’t matter that it worked just fine between then and now, everything is my fault.
I can’t wait until she’s finally dead.
I never fell for mp3.exe, but I did install Real Player and use the built in browser once.
I learned how to remove a Trojan virus that copy pastes itself into a few directories before mom got home from work at 9 years old.
People wonder why I know so much about computers, a large part was fucking up the expensive family PC repeatedly.
I feel like that’s the case for a lot of our generation
How times have changed. I used to have print outs in my filing cabinet with virus removal guides from all the various times I contracted digitally transmitted diseases online.
That’s how we all learned it back then. Shear necessity.
Most boomers were too far into old age to learn it effectively. X and Z were raised in it. Now the tech has changed dramatically and you don’t need anywhere near the skill anymore, there’s a lot of younger generation that have no clue again. They can run the shit out of an iPad though.
First thing I do is unhide file types now since I grew up in the limewire era.
Another fucking stupid default
It’s fine for the type of user windows is targeting by default.
Most people don’t give a shit if it’s xls, xlsx, xlsm, or xlsb, so long as they can open it in Excel and punch in numbers, and there are mechanisms to prevent these people from getting infected easily.Yeah it’s honestly way more likely for someone to change the file type and break the file while renaming it, than it is for malware to get past Defender.
Undo?
You make a good point, I just hate it. I feel like there’s a lot of examples where this is more relevant but admit I’m struggling for examples (TXT, log, inf, etc) by really it’s only video files bay have quite different content of structure despite the same extension - this is why everyone uses VLC because it handles everything you throw at it
Another is not underlining the keyboard indicators.
These were both on by default in the early releases of windows (far as i remember) and some bunch of smooth brains decided to remove meaningful information from the interface. It should be clear and detailed in a user interface, not implied
The fact that Windows hides file extensions by default is just absolute insanity to me.
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If only wimdow did proper magic
My favourite was when people would then use limewire to pirate limewire pro and double up on the malware
Limewire is the new beans on Lemmy or something? This is the 7th Limewire post in 2 days…
Lemmy is in danger of growing stale. We’re taking it to strange new places.
Mate, you’ve only been here for 14 days.
Seriously what the fuck is happening?!
Also if you miss that shit hit nicotine+ and get after it.
May be a bot network testing posting and sentiment manipulation.
My experiment is working to plan
No need to be suspicious, it’s just a self extracting zip file. Convenient and downloads faster!
It flashed a command prompt, that’s how you know it worked!
linkinpark_paparoach_korn.exe
That was truly a banger, really infectious!
I repartitioned the hard drive to install Linux.
Unbeknownst to me, my brother had stored the photos he took of our grandparents 50th wedding anniversary on that drive. There was no backup.
There are two types of people who do back ups:
- the paranoid
- the experienced
It’s only paranoia if it’s unwarranted.
rick_astley_never_gonna_give_you_up.mp3.exe
Ahh limewire the virus sharing program
Deleting system32 fixed my issues.
For linux/mac users it’s writing “rm -rf / “ into the terminal
It’s how you delete the French language pack.
Its hard to imagine a shared family PC at this point in time
Ir’s possible. Dad is a gamer and kids aren’t old enough for PCs, but maybe old enough for tablets.
I still remember bricking my mom’s gateway computer while downloading eps of love hina, blade 2 soundtrack and next door Nikki videos off of limewire…sorry mom.
Gateway bruh…hahah
E machines for me. Xp sp1 lol. 512mb ram.
Lol I remember eMachines. Integrated graphics on a desktop tower and the thing sounded like a leafblower under load. Also I believe it wouldn’t support a dedicated GPU either.
Man… I had that thing humming trying to run Sims 2. But diablo 1 rand like a champ. I cooked that thing so many times, it’s what taught me how to rebuild windows. Eventually my family gave up on saving files to the computer.
I never really got into file sharing early on, I somehow jumped onto torrents instead and soon after migrated to Linux distro hopping for a while.
All the while I kept fixing PCs for family and friends.
Almost all of them were worn down, infected and affected by the 12 year old in the house who tried to download anything and everything they could find. Their only limiting factor was hard drive space, otherwise they would have downloaded the internet if given the chance.
I remember starting up a Windows PC I volunteered to fix, waiting half an hour for it to finish its start up routine, go into it’s start up programs and discover a list of 200 weird items that came on at every start up … delete or remove all of them … restart, wait again and now there were 100 items at start up … research how to remove things, rinse repeat for about two days and finally gain back normal control of everything. Then move, back up or just delete a bunch of junk to take back hard drive space.
Hand it back to the owner who put it back in their home office and their 12 year old would start downloading things again.
It would take me days to fix it and the kid would take hours to ruin it all.
Then the parents would blame shitty software or hardware and go out and buy a new faster system.
The only side benefit to all this was that I ended up collecting a bunch of old systems, laptops and tablets that I fixed or used as Linux test systems and learned a lot from.
