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Or any other file, there are methods but not as convenient as airdrop.

I don't understand why someone would choose a computing device that traps them as much as apple devices do. Every time I've tried to get a file off of one, which is something so incredibly basic it should be easy to do, it's next to impossible without using their shitty iTunes software. Why can't a file system just be a file system? Why does it need to be this nonsense?

The last time I tried this I was mounting an iPod as a filesystem and everything had nonhuman read bale names and there were a bunch of weird formats.

Why on earth is apple so hostile to users?

Does the iphone let you run an http or ftp server on the device? If so its actually alright, I prefer copying files over lan over fiddling with cables anyways generally. But it is funny how copying files with a cable is not possible with it.

What do you suggest? I'm happy with my recent switch to linux desktop but for phones there aren't many options, is android any better?

> is android any better

In this specific respect, most definitely yes.

Absolutely, android phones allow you to actually control the user space software on the device. The whole baseband processor thing is another topic but overall android allows much greater ownership and control

Yeah, probably the #1 reason I use (de-googled) Android over anything else is easy access to the filesystem coupled with allowing background work. I can have Syncthing or Nextcloud passively slurp all my photos in the background while keeping my Keepass db updated.

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