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!
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!