Comment by userbinator | Hacker News Reader

Comment by userbinator | Hacker News Reader

The most irritating circumstance for this is looking for files named with a hash:

    3ea4f...
    ...
    97dce...
    ...
    126b9...

This is one of the settings I immediately turn off on Windows via the registry key mentioned in the other comments here.

I miss the time when computers did what you told them to, instead of trying to read your mind.

These days, it's more like "trying to change your mind". I absolutely hate the "the user is wrong" authoritarian mentality that unfortunately has infected a ton of software, even open-source.

Exactly. This is even more annoying when it isn't exactly a hash, but some gibberish you cannot really make sense of, which does have a numeric section in them: like a user ID, or unix time, or who knows what else it could be, but you are trying to visually find a file abcd89764237 somewhere after abcd683426834, and it isn't evident why you cannot, unit you notice that the latter has more digits in its "ID" for some reason.

It looks like GTK & KDE both suffer from this - I get this behaviour in Thunar and in Dolphin. This is the kind of thing that makes me lose sleep. It's the same on MacOS too, at least in the latest version.

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