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Apparently Linus Sebastian thinks hitting ctrl+S on a GitHub page should download the content inside the page instead of the HTML. I'm bewildered tbh. I can see the logic but... It's not shocking that it doesn't work that way? What
@brianna you cannot change the header of the file, which is usually the first 1024B of a file.
If you try to open a PNG that's really a JPG in the Debian image viewer, it will literally say, "not a PNG file".
People say that file extensions are important on Windows vs other OSes, but you can easily change file extensions in Windows or open a wrong file extension with the right program... so I don't see how it's any different honestly. The type of a file is always determined by its contents even if the OS prioritizes the filename