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9point6 , to linuxmemes in Remember: GNU/Linux and other UNIX systems can make files that are case-sensitive, Windows can't make files that are case-sensitive

Oh it’s even better, windows explorer can’t really do case sensitive

But NTFS is a case sensitive file system

This occasionally manifests in mind boggling problems

FiskFisk33 ,

WHAT

lud ,

NTFS is case insensitive because it’s supposed to be more POSIX compatible than its precursors.

Source: …microsoft.com/…/fat-hpfs-and-ntfs-file-systems#p…

Kushan ,
@Kushan@lemmy.world avatar

You can enable case sensitivity in windows. It’s only disabled by default.

Scrollone ,

I wouldn’t do it though. It can only lead to problems, especially with poorly coded programs.

Kushan ,
@Kushan@lemmy.world avatar

It’s generally fine, the vast majority of applications are fine with it, it’s mainly the legacy shit that falls over.

You can also enable it on a per directory basis, and I’ve yet to encounter a Dev tool that has issues with it. Same for the path limit, you can have long paths enabled too.

dan ,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

Same on MacOS - when you format a drive, you can pick whether it’s case sensitive or not.

stupidcasey ,

Lol, I have a NTFS drive in a Linux container so I didn’t have to re download everything I had on windows works perfectly fine, now I’m assuming if I ever try to move it back to windows something horrible will break.

Wolf314159 ,

Yeah, it’s super weird. I once named a file with mixed case, but one of the letters was the wrong case. Renaming the file didn’t work at first. Renaming a file named PAscalCase.txt to PascalCase.txt resulted in no change to the filename. Windows continued to show it as PAscalCase.txt. I had to rename it to something totally different with different characters entirely, then rename it again to get it right.

dual_sport_dork , (edited )
@dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world avatar

Renaming it in Explorer does actually rename the file if all you change is the case (in current Windows, at least, see the pedantry below), but whatever mechanism Explorer uses to determine “has this file’s name changed” is apparently case insensitive. So it won’t refresh the file list. I imagine this is yet another one of those damn fool Windows 95 holdovers, or something.

You don’t have to do any multiple-renaming jiggery pokery. Just press F5 to refresh that Explorer window and magically then it’ll show you that the file’s name was indeed changed all along.

Wolf314159 ,

Nope. Tried that. Tried DIR in a command window too. But I never specified even what version of Windows I was running, so I’m a little unclear why you’re trying to troubleshoot a problem I was experiencing on windows nearly a decade ago. I guess this is what be mansplained too feels like.

Mandarbmax , to lemmyshitpost in Smoking PSA

Hell yeah white baby

Doodleschmit ,
@Doodleschmit@lemmy.world avatar

Had to make sure this was here. Good work.

synae ,
@synae@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I don’t get the reference but it sure made me laugh anyway

CodexArcanum ,
theshatterstone54 , to unixporn in [hyprland] Akira theme

I’ve seen a lot of red themes and without any exceptions I can recall, they’ve all sucked. But this. This is actually pretty good.

rozodru OP ,

I think the trick is not to use a retina burning shade of red and utilize it as an accent.

circuitfarmer , to technology in Why is Facebook filled with so much random junk now?
@circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

The goal was always that the user would be the product. It was less clear at the beginning, because the advertising was far less intrusive (if you even saw an ad at all, in the early days), and the service was “free” at a time when the internet was comparatively young. So it gained a lot of popularity from novelty and being an actually useful communication tool.

But the communication tool portion was always a side effect of data collection. Any “free” service is ultimately just getting value from you in different ways. In the case of Facebook, once it had amalgamated enough data, the flood gates opened and the enshittification was extremely rapid. It will never go back to the way it was for many reasons, not the least of which being: it was designed to be the cesspool it is now.

Ultimately, all these seemingly random posts are an attempt to get you to continue to interact with the platform. If you read through comments on such posts, they do tend to drive engagement, even if it is just a user going “why is this in my feed?”

SerotoninSwells , to cat in Caption this!
@SerotoninSwells@lemmy.world avatar

3 mewnutos!

Smokeless7048 , to technology in Why is Facebook filled with so much random junk now?

facebook keeps pushing ‘vegans are evil’ and ‘lets make milk mean raw milk again’ posts on me.

Just… stop. let me enjoy my friends and groups

SuiXi3D ,
@SuiXi3D@fedia.io avatar

They keep feeding me astronomy-related videos, but only the ones with flat-earthers and Jesus-botherers in the comments.

XeroxCool ,

High interaction is all that matters.

_NetNomad , to linuxmemes in Remember: GNU/Linux and other UNIX systems can make files that are case-sensitive, Windows can't make files that are case-sensitive
@_NetNomad@fedia.io avatar

HEY, NOT ALL OF US CAN AFFORD LOWER-CASE LETTERS

nuke , to noncredibledefense in Product testers
@nuke@sh.itjust.works avatar

What if we touched tips 👉👈

0laura ,

fröten

PenisDuckCuck9001 , (edited ) to linuxmemes in Remember: GNU/Linux and other UNIX systems can make files that are case-sensitive, Windows can't make files that are case-sensitive

This makes installing Skyrim mods harder because mods often contain differing versions of folder names. For example one mod might be “Scripts” and the other might be “scripts”. This means you can’t have Skyrim mods on Linux if you’re allergic to copying files manually as this will generally make mod managers not work as well. People on forums like nexus often have a hard time even grasping the concept of not using a mod manager so it’s hard to get help of any kind.

Trainguyrom ,

I encountered similar with mods for Transport Fever which has had Linux native builds since the original Train Fever, but many mods have bugs related to inconsistent capitalization in the files that make up the mods. I haven’t looked into if it works differently when running via wine/steamplay

oldfart , to technology in Why is Facebook filled with so much random junk now?

When I quit Facebook over 10 years ago it was because it stopped showing me my friends’ posts and pushed random crap instead. I literally had to go friends’ profiles to see their posts even when checking the feed several times a day.

Looks like nothing changed?

dm_me_your_feet , to lemmyshitpost in Don't fucking MENTION this cat's diet
eunieisthebus , to meanwhileongrad in NATO apologism
@eunieisthebus@feddit.org avatar

Honestly, can’t we defederate from that shithole. I don’t see why we need to get a post every other day just to ruin everyone’s day

Emmie , (edited )

Well at least people got educated on left side extremism. I think it puts things in the broader perspective and maybe even someone decided to research these topics some more.

It makes you wonder about communism as a whole. Does it always lead to totalitarianism? Etc

It’s healthy to see all the nut jobs from time to time and reflect on your own steps.
If your views align with the nut jobs for example that makes you wonder hmm something is wrong.

Charzard4261 ,

People whose views align with nutjobs think that everyone else is being dramatic.

PugJesus ,

“I’ve never even seen a tankie on here before!” - an infinite number of tankie fellow travellers

Although, to be fair, they’ve become much more rare in .world communities over the past few months. It’s nice, having only a few morons to wander in and make apologia for war crimes and totalitarianism.

davidagain ,

Tankies are totalitarian right winners cosplaying as left wingers. Communism hasn’t been in power in Russia since Gorbachev. It’s been nationalists since then. They swung. They swung hard. They kept the totalitarianism and got rid of the leftness. I’d have made largely the opposite choice.

diskmaster23 ,

And as many argue, USSR was state capitalism.

Emmie , (edited )

Lenin was actually capitalist libertarian, they won’t tell you that in the history books written by rotten western imperialists but it’s true. You should read The Communist Manifesto.

Moderators please we have a liberal in the comments, I can’t breatheee

diskmaster23 ,

Been working my way through Richard Wolfe stuff first, then I’ll work on the classics. If Wolfe says USSR was state capitalism, then he’s a liberal too.

PersnickityPenguin ,

I’m totally ignorant here, but uh… Isn’t the point of communism to I close state capitalism?

Communism is not Marxism, which afaik really has never been implemented.

KillingTimeItself ,

lenin was pretty good in terms of communism, stalinist russia was very totalitarian though.

PersnickityPenguin ,

I think you are wrong about the right/left thing. Ever hear about the horseshoe theory of politics?

davidagain ,

Russia embraced capitalism after the fall of the USSR then became an oligarchy where a bunch of super rich run the whole thing. Socialism is dead in Russia and has been for a long time. The only thing that didn’t change is that most people are cripplingly poor. Where have you been for the last 40 years?

KillingTimeItself ,

It makes you wonder about communism as a whole. Does it always lead to totalitarianism? Etc

considering the answer to democracy is literally “well you can vote one in” as we have recently found out in america.

Yeah probably. If even the most rugged institutions are not impervious to this problem, i think it’s fair to safe that no institution is.

It’s healthy to see all the nut jobs from time to time and reflect on your own steps. If your views align with the nut jobs for example that makes you wonder hmm something is wrong.

my rule of thumb for politics is that if you have an opinion it and you are wrong and you should stop holding that opinion. Politics is vastly too complicated for even a lifelong PHD thesis to be capable of understanding. Let alone some dude who gets all his news from idiots yelling at a camera online.

The best thing we can do is to prevent ourselves from getting to extreme before it starts.

stinerman ,
@stinerman@midwest.social avatar

This is how it’s supposed to work on the Fediverse. If you don’t like an instance, you defederate. I take no position on people at lemmy.ml, but unless people are rage addicts the best thing to do is ignore instances you find objectionable.

PersnickityPenguin ,

Can’t, it drives engagement.

MehBlah , to linuxmemes in Remember: GNU/Linux and other UNIX systems can make files that are case-sensitive, Windows can't make files that are case-sensitive

What I really like is a naming files with a forbidden windows character in Linux and they wont copy over to a windows partition. I end up using a question mark quite a bit for some reason.

suzune ,

<span style="color:#323232;">touch 'C:WINDOWSSYSTEM32'
</span>
SpaceCadet ,
@SpaceCadet@feddit.nl avatar

Or just name the file con. Windows 95 even used to bluescreen if you tried to refer to concon.

MehBlah ,

Sure there was mirc bug back in the day if you named yourself something like con or ps2 or any windows device name it would freeze that device on the windows machine.

stupidcasey , to linuxmemes in Remember: GNU/Linux and other UNIX systems can make files that are case-sensitive, Windows can't make files that are case-sensitive

But why though? Do you really want a bunch of file.txt File.txt FILE.txt fIle.txt FiLe.txt FIle.txt flIe.txt… I once had a nasty bug the O in a file name was a 0 and I didn’t notice I can’t imagine the horrors this would cause.

Moah ,
@Moah@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Yours is not too question why, yours is to admire the marvel of technology even if it’s worth than useless

inverted_deflector ,

Yeah I’ve definitely run into issues where case sensitivity causes problems. Especially in programs that are cross-functional between Windows and Linux. Like when I recently downloaded some bios files for a Playstation emulator and I spend time figuring out and troubleshooting why they weren’t working until it finally hit me the door McFly it’s cause the file name was in lowercase not uppercase. Than I cared to admit to figure out

AnUnusualRelic ,
@AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world avatar

Oooh, I’ve had that with some device. I think it was a camera or something like that. I’d forgotten about it. It took me ages to figure it out.

KillingTimeItself ,

surely this is the only place where we would run into stupid syntax problems, right?

imo syntax bugs will be a thing until the end of time, they certainly beat having to rip out 90% of what you’ve done to fix it that’s for sure.

Resol , to technology in Why is Facebook filled with so much random junk now?
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

I thought it has been this way for like… a decade?

spongebue ,

Not really. There were plenty of random pages, but you really had to seek it out to see it. Now an overwhelming majority of non-ad posts are stuff like this (and I wouldn’t be surprised if they pay to have this stuff seen, basically making it an ad)

Resol ,
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

I guess I’ve been away from Facebook long before this started showing up.

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