Nobody likes to share anymore

I have been using linux on at least of one of my computer since the I started using computers and one thing its know for is small difficult to remember programs that are really really composible.

The concept of piping is a core feature of most linux programs allow it to pass data from one to another.

cat contacts.txt | grep "phone:" | tee contact-phone.txt | wc -l

this gets all the lines that start with phone out of a txt document and creates a new document with that text.

This sort of mentality of composability is not only being hidden behind abstractions but being actively discouraged.

Even Files arent files anymore

I was looking at some zero trust solution for android file sharing and there are loads that work well but they arent really file syncing then are file storage and cache previewing.

These app allows you to "Store Items Offline" by in truth its not actually the item you uploaded, its a cache object related to the item. This change means that even your "Offline Files" are not able to be shared with other applications.

I use m3u music playlists which reference other mp3 files and work in millions of music programs but because of this change they are useless. Even markdown files like in this blog, I can't use these services because its not true syncing of files on android.

Its a constant push towards siloed monitored data which can be turned off by a company whenever they want to.