Watts MartinNew post: "What you're allowed to do" https://coyotetracks.org/blog/what-youre-allowed/
On real restrictions in computing life versus imagined ones.
digitalfox@chipotle Now I'm curious, is there a way to copy files to/from iOS over USB, pictures/music/documents?
That's something my dad has wanted to do, and I'm not sure if it's Apple requiring iTunes not available on Linux (versus Android doing MTP), or an actual designed limitation. I also gotta remind him to open the Nextcloud app every few weeks because background photo upload will eventually stop.
Otherwise, it feels like most of Apple's restrictions are things developers have to hack around (e.g. Tundra's VFLEX voltage adapters having to abuse USB MIDI as the only allowed USB control mechanism).
@digitalfox iOS is definitely more limited, and *does* have a few arbitrary restrictions that I find dubious; it's definitely designed with the idea that you're going to use some kind of wireless syncing service to get stuff on and off of it, ideally iCloud, although there are other alternatives. You can use the Files app to copy files to and from thumb drives (and various kinds of file servers), but you can't mount the Files app on a PC as if it were a thumb drive, which would be ideal.
@chipotle Ah, noted, I'm glad it's not just me. I didn't know Files handled file servers, too, maybe I can do something with that for Dad. Or see how KDE Connect is going.
On the upside, I think the fact Apple still allows you to install other operating systems on Macs (including extra firmware development effort they could've skipped) is a good policy. I'm assuming they'll include the Neo in that.