• cm0002@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    See also: Let’s roll our own .zip implementation that only Mac can reliably read for…reasons

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        2 months ago

        Think the other way around: What’s the use case for case insensitive file names? Does it justify the effort and complexity for the filesystem and the programs to know the difference between lower and upper space chars?

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          What’s the use case for case insensitive file names?

          Human comprehension.

          Readme, readme, README, and ReadMe are not meaningfully different to the average user.

          And for dorks like us - oh my god, tab completion, you know I mean Documents, just take the fucking d!

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    2 months ago

    honestly - while a Mac is certainly less painful to use than winshit, putting rubbish files recursively into each(!!) accessed folder, on all thumbdrives ever inserted, that’s something Jobs deserves to burn in hell for.