Giving up control bit by bit
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I just tried this with Samba (so
dpkg -L sambaanddpkg -S samba, and I also tried addinggrep "smb.conf"and running it with sudo) and I was unable to find the share config file.It's located under
/etc/samba/smb.confbut that command was returning a path under my local user. This is on UbuntuYou might want to look into the locate package (it might be called mlocate) if you can't find a file. It can be helpful.
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For real? Never used Android, but isn’t it built on Linux? It doesn’t use the same path /home/username/Downloads?
It's basically a jvm that runs on the Linux kernel.
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I just tried this with Samba (so
dpkg -L sambaanddpkg -S samba, and I also tried addinggrep "smb.conf"and running it with sudo) and I was unable to find the share config file.It's located under
/etc/samba/smb.confbut that command was returning a path under my local user. This is on Ubuntuwrote on last edited by [email protected]dpkg -Srequires a full path like the example I gave.dpkg -L sambashould work fine. What is the error you got? -
If you give me a 1000 piece puzzle for free, but without the instructions or a box picture to go off of, you've done a nice thing by gifting me something but have also failed miserably as I'll never fuckin solve that puzzle
Terrible analogy honestly.
Feel free to not use this software, nobody will ever force you to use it.This is not software to entertain you. It's a tool that you don't understand how to use and choose to blame the people building it for free.
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Meanwhile
Windows; Hi, you saved a file earlier? Let's search for it. Nope, can't find it, do you want to search Bing? No?
[A few minutes later] Ooo, so sorry you're offline and can't download it. Too bad.Ios; you want to open the file in an app? OK, click 7 buttons and we'll make a local copy stored in the app's specific folder you didn't know existed.
Chrome; what's a file?
Linux; which file browser would you like to use today?
Funni, cause the comment below from AstralPath and lightnsfw tells a different story
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Meanwhile
Windows; Hi, you saved a file earlier? Let's search for it. Nope, can't find it, do you want to search Bing? No?
[A few minutes later] Ooo, so sorry you're offline and can't download it. Too bad.Ios; you want to open the file in an app? OK, click 7 buttons and we'll make a local copy stored in the app's specific folder you didn't know existed.
Chrome; what's a file?
Linux; which file browser would you like to use today?
Windows is more like, oh that file you saved earlier? Yeah we moved that to OneDrive. You want it back? Sorry didn't pay your OneDrive subscription fee, so you don't actually have that file anymore. Hope it wasn't something irreplaceable like your kid's baby photos or anything lol.
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Meanwhile
Windows; Hi, you saved a file earlier? Let's search for it. Nope, can't find it, do you want to search Bing? No?
[A few minutes later] Ooo, so sorry you're offline and can't download it. Too bad.Ios; you want to open the file in an app? OK, click 7 buttons and we'll make a local copy stored in the app's specific folder you didn't know existed.
Chrome; what's a file?
Linux; which file browser would you like to use today?
Linux:
ls
cd directory
ls
cd directory2
ls
cd directory3
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Linux:
ls
cd directory
ls
cd directory2
ls
cd directory3
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Unfortunately this also applies to Flatpak software in Linux. That's one area where distros really need to focus on improving usability.
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Windows is more like, oh that file you saved earlier? Yeah we moved that to OneDrive. You want it back? Sorry didn't pay your OneDrive subscription fee, so you don't actually have that file anymore. Hope it wasn't something irreplaceable like your kid's baby photos or anything lol.
I use Windows and have never encountered what you are describing.
none of my files have ever been 'moved' to OneDrive and none of my files that are on OneDrive have ever been locked behind a paywall.
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Opens the files app which shows all files that were recently downloaded from any app to the file system.
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just be glad you don't have an iphone. at least on android there are easy ways to remedy this.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]iPhone has an app aptly named Files. Inside here are files. Pretty sure it works the same on Android.
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Can't get the save file from some android games anymore.
️One of these days, they'll add a censorship chip into every consumer electronic.
you likely can with another file manager like Amaze
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you likely can with another file manager like Amaze
You still can't write into it, which means you can't continue off a save file from another phone.
I suspect this is to make piracy harder. A lot of paid mobile games (Ported from PC) seems to want you to use Google's cloud these days.
The only exception is like Stardew Valley, where they put the save directory in a normal folder. Every other game make it impossible to move your saves.
Heck, Into The Breach is even locked to Netflix. You need a fucking Netflix subscription for that. No thanks lol, I'll enjoy my illegal download. (I have to type in a cheat code to unlock the stuff every time I set up a new phone, but its a roguelike, so not much data is lost anyways)
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iPhone has an app aptly named Files. Inside here are files. Pretty sure it works the same on Android.
Pretty sure you've never used an Android, iPhone file managemt is locked down and dumbed down garbage, made so to make people more dependent on paying for and using the app store apps, without understanding the underlying system at all, and the primary reason I'm moving back to Android. Can't let some shit tech company dictate how I use my own devices file system, or what apps I can and can't install on it.
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Meanwhile
Windows; Hi, you saved a file earlier? Let's search for it. Nope, can't find it, do you want to search Bing? No?
[A few minutes later] Ooo, so sorry you're offline and can't download it. Too bad.Ios; you want to open the file in an app? OK, click 7 buttons and we'll make a local copy stored in the app's specific folder you didn't know existed.
Chrome; what's a file?
Linux; which file browser would you like to use today?
Use a system indexer like Listary or Everything and you never have to worry about finding a file ever again, just type its name and it'll be the first result
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Pretty sure you've never used an Android, iPhone file managemt is locked down and dumbed down garbage, made so to make people more dependent on paying for and using the app store apps, without understanding the underlying system at all, and the primary reason I'm moving back to Android. Can't let some shit tech company dictate how I use my own devices file system, or what apps I can and can't install on it.
Merely just naming the app, not here for a debate. FYI I used to own a Pixel.
I don’t care what phones you do or do not use as you shouldn’t with me. Got more to worry about than which evil company we each give our money to.
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When I say monkey you say blunt.
Monkey!
Blunt!
Go Zip!
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I use Windows and have never encountered what you are describing.
none of my files have ever been 'moved' to OneDrive and none of my files that are on OneDrive have ever been locked behind a paywall.
Well we all know OneDrive cost money but like you get 5 or 10GB free, and even then if you go over I'm 99% sure those files just stay on your PC.
But the moving files thing feels real. I remember testing out Fedora one time with a classmate who was trying to convince me to switch, and for some reason, even though I direct all downloads to the download folder, it was in my OneDrive somehow. So when my VM tried installing the iso, it was taking a million years to pull it from OneDrive.
Similarly, I didn't realize my Documents folder was backed up on the Cloud, so I had to find the dumbass settings to turn off backups for documents and other shit besides pictures. This is one of those moments where I understand why Linux users love a CLI, because Microsoft's menus are stupid to navigate sometimes.
The worst offender that I never managed to figure out was my ShareX files. It would save locally, but then switch to OneDrive for no reason, so my config and shortcuts would be lost, and the auto backups would also be lost. I fought with that thing for months, and only gave up cause I moved to Fedora Silverblue, in which Linux unfortunately has no app that is nearly as good as ShareX.
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It's almost as if this is a computer architecture designed for idiots who don't know or care what a file is or for what purposes their data is being harvested. Everywhere I hear people falling over themselves to declare that the tablet smartphone was apple's golden gift to the world. Try to do any serious work on one, it's fucking annoying.
Whenever we make technology accessible to stupid people it becomes irritating to use and a privacy nightmare.
