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In the past computers fulfilled their potential. All their resources were there for you to use. All the memory, storage, peripherals and processor were for the programmer to use how ever they wanted. When computers multitasking there needed to be protections to prevent one program from interfering with another. This was to prevent accidental corruption or malicious programs looking at data they shouldn't. As things progressed and multiple users used the same computer there are protections from different people accessing another person's data on the harddisk.
Now it feels like computers, and phones in particular, try to hide aspects that they feel users don't need to understand. But, for someone like me, maybe just because I grew up with things different to this, or maybe because I like to understand how things work, this makes everything harder to do. I've found, at various versions, Android has hidden away the possibility to see files. To me a filemanager is great, I can see all the things I've saved, all the things I've created, but now it's all hidden away. The files are there but you need to root your phone to see any of it. And the few versions of iOS that I've used seem to also be like that.
One place where this has manifested is that I'd like to use Syncthing to synchronise as directory across my Linux laptop, my Android phone and my iPad. The problem is that although the files synced across the devices, I couldn't open the files. On the iPad I can't select files from the file system, the app will only let me open things in the app's own folder. This is similar to the phone where this happends sometimes, too.
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