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by nativeit 641 days ago
> If you wrote it on a PC and tried to read it on a Mac, though, it wouldn't work unless back on the PC you checked a button that said you wanted the file to be readable on a Mac. (Why wouldn't you? Seriously, why wouldn't you?)

As a non-SWE, whenever I see checkboxes to enable options that maximize compatibility, I often assume there’s an implicit trade-off, so if it isn’t checked by default, I don’t enable such things unless strictly necessary. I don’t have any solid reason for this, it’s just my intuition. After all, if there were no good reasons not to enable Mac compatibility, why wouldn’t it be the default?

Edit: spelling error with “implicit”