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Similar issue with modern devs that don’t know what a page of memory is.

Or don't even know the bandgap of the transistors the computer is running off.

Yeah, developers nowadays don’t know their Pauli exclusion principle.

or a database.

Microsoft's recommendation in the early 2000's was to use .local

Even if they know now, that doesn’t mean they knew when setting up the AD domain back in 2000.

Thank Apple for designing the protocol the Apple way, that is being not interoperable with the world.

Yes, the classic not-interoperable approach of publishing the protocol as Standards Track RFCs with the IETF.

The timeline was IIRC

1. MS made recommendations to use .local

2. Apple networks started to use Bonjour and used .local, breaking on networks that used .local already

3. RFC was submitted

4. MS recommended against using .local or any domain you do not own fully