Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 20:22:45 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to explore Android device files under FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <20190714182245.GA2405@c720-r342378> In-Reply-To: <20190714194416.6948d301.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <AM0PR03MB45946F28AAF9A2F51F97A589F6CD0@AM0PR03MB4594.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com> <13b9dc8e-f489-afaf-4b2c-e08277e2ecbd@gmail.com> <20190714194416.6948d301.freebsd@edvax.de>
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El día domingo, julio 14, 2019 a las 07:44:16p. m. +0200, Polytropon escribió: > Why doesn't it seem to occur to people that this sounds entirely wrong? > It's not that it is impossible, or doesn't work - but shouldn't it be > much easier to copy _your_ photos from _your_ phone without requiring > a 3rd party app, registering for a crappy cloud service, or mess with > "developer settings"? > > In my opinion, it should be as easy as attaching the USB cable and > then immediately having access to a direct access mass storage, as > per the standard. Mount it, copy your files, unmount it, done. No > need for apps and cloud nonsense. Of course, using an MTP interface > is also easy, and with GUI tools like gtkam, access is super easy. > It should work that way by default, with cable. > > Why do manufacturers think it's okay to make things needlessly > complicated? I mean... I even got this working with an iPad, so > why should an Android-based phone, where Android is usually considered > "some kind of Linux", force you to do annoying things? I think with > the tools available on FreeBSD, it should be possible to get images > copied from an Android phone without much messing with that phone. I slightly disagree. A Linux based mobile device should behave like this. It should present itself via SSH and allow access to your photos with scp or rsync+ssh, and if you need some GUI, use something of KDE or Gnome which works on top of SSH to present the dirs and files in a Norton Commander style. My Ubuntu mobile device works like this (and I do use rsync and ssh/scp all days). The Android based mobiles *could* behave the same way, but Google does not want this and want that the user uses something else, for example some cloud. The upcoming Puri.sm L5 will also be a normal Linux system. I'm awaiting mine in Q3 of this year. matthias -- Matthias Apitz, ✉ guru@unixarea.de, http://www.unixarea.de/ +49-176-38902045 Public GnuPG key: http://www.unixarea.de/key.pub May, 9: Спаси́бо освободители! Thank you very much, Russian liberators!
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