I feel like the people I interact with irl don’t even know how to boot from a USB. People here probably know how to do some form of coding or at least navigate a directory through the command line. Stg I would bet money on the average person not even being able to create a Lemmy account without assistance.
Yeah it’s impossible to send a PDF over email from an iPhone. Never been done before. In theory it’s possible, but some computer scientists think it may never happen as tech literacy plummets and children can barely describe the best Linux distro before the age of 3 nowadays
It’s impossible to figure out where your PDF downloaded on Android. And then if I miraculously DO find it, whoops - my reader crashed because it doesn’t have permissions to read from that folder. All modern mobile OS tech is a disaster.
-search bar
-“files”
-downloads
“Impossible”
The search bar is an absolute disaster that not only searches your phone, it also sends your search to Google, and if you have, like me, a 128 Gb microSD card, it’s also going to SLOWLY search through the unindexed million files on THERE, chugging along and MAYBE finishing in 2 or 3 minutes.
“files” is an unnavigatable crapshoot, offering “suggested” recent files that didn’t populate because the last 10 most recent files didn’t even get picked up by the scanning service yet, reordering any list of files bigger than 10 things takes FOREVER, half the directories are aliased in 12 places so you’re navigating a loop, and even if you FIND the file there’s no guarantee you can OPEN it because the directory might be protected.
Downloads is a complete freaking mess. If you have a flash card, your stupid Android phone will duplicate all the user directories on it and half your apps will download to the card and the other half to your system memory, and Google’s useless scanning service that’s supposed to keep track of recent downloads goes off on magical adventures for hours at a time so you can locate your downloaded file TOMORROW if it gets around to it.
You’re right… The fact that I can fight with the stupid thing for 20 minutes to get to my file doesn’t mean it’s literally “impossible”. It just means it’s broken, barely usable crap that I refuse to tolerate because I like products that WORK.
I think if it’s taking you 20 minutes to open a downloaded PDF on your phone that might actually just be a skill issue
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Could be! Could also be that turning the legitimate experiential issues with a technology you seem to have a deep attachment to into a personal attack on the one who made them might ALSO be a skill issue. At least I can say it’s consistent with the design philosophy of these OSs.
But seeing as how you’ve apparently got personal vested interest in this to the point where you’re going to resort to insulting me rather than making any real points, I’m just going to bow out of this one. You have a good one, sir.
Think you’re confusing who’s getting emotional about this biddy
Oh, I didn’t say anything about getting emotional. I am emotional about this. I hate this technology, have terrible experiences with it, and I won’t apologize for that. But as an adult, I can target my anger at the thing I’m angry at. I didn’t decide to turn it into personal attacks on YOU because your experience was different. That’s a path YOU took, and after this message, you’re taking it alone. Once again - have a good one.