Oh yeah, tell that to Dropbox.

Don't use dropbox. That's not even just a thing to say, reclaim your autonomy and stop using a proprietary tool.

No doubt sent from a device with fully open-source hardware stack, right?

Is it conceivable to you that steps are possible, and getting rid of dropbox is a step in a direction ? That perfect is the enemy of good ? That you can't wait to find a perfectly pure plan before starting moving ?

rather fond of leading hyphens and nonprint ascii myself

Ah yes - the user should serve the computer, not vice versa, clearly.

/s, in case it's necessary.

It's more that doing the 80% solution lets us spend time developing other things. And then we can have a bunch of other really cool stuff as long as the users are willing to work with it.

Which seems like a pretty reasonable trade-off for something that's free.

It's the user serving themselves by naming files in a way that makes them easy to handle everywhere. There is also sorting and completion to consider in commonly-traversed directories.

/Τĥιs ñåmè įß ą váĺîδ POSIX /paτĥ