Subj : Re: Computers Literacy
To   : Retroswim
From : The Wanderer
Date : Thu Apr 30 2026 09:50 am

  Re: Re: Computers Literacy
  By: Retroswim to boraxman on Thu Apr 30 2026 09:07 pm

 Re> Files and directories are (in this analogy, at least!) fuel mixture and
 Re> ignition timing. The software manages them, so you can focus on taking
 Re> pictures, listening to music, writing documents, actually doing the
 Re> macroscopic tasks you care about.

Interesting thoughts but I gotta say I disagree with the analogy -- Files & folders are definitely not the fuel mixture. The fuel mixture could analogize to code, electricity, I/O maybe, but not files & folders.

I would say all the inside space of the vehicle is your drive & folders, the stuff you put in are the files.

People generally can manage getting the groceries in and taking them out. Organizing luggage to fill the car up can take organizational know-how. If you don't empty your suitcases (or in some people's cases, the garbage one just tosses aside in the vehicle), you wind up with no space for anything else. 

One doesn't have to know anything about organization to make basic use of the interior of their vehicle, but if you need to pack a lot of stuff, or if you ever want to retrieve anything from inside the vehicle, it helps to know how it's been organized and/or where things are.

I don't think the mobile OS makers obfuscating that stuff away from people is all that helpful - just makes it more difficult any time one needs to hunt down an actual file, and keeping people stupid about this stuff contributes to wastage.
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