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My daily reminder that too many people, even in 2023, don't understand what a file extension is.
It doesn't help that Microsoft, in its great wisdom, decided to hide them.
They made it worse even. I had to deal with a friend's Windows 11 computer the other day and it looks like even if you enable showing file extensions, it will still hide them if you go to rename the file (you know, the reason you'd usually want to enable it for). There's probably still a way to make them show all the time but this was over a voice call so I didn't want to mess around with it too much. Absolutely unusable.
I think it's actually gotten worse among Millenials and Gen Z. I teach chemistry at a college, and half of my students don't understand how folders work, let alone a file extension.
A few years ago, I had to tell someone to convert some pictures since they took them in .heic and being able to see them wasn't standard. Their response was to manually change the file extension on each of hundreds of files from .heic to .jpeg.