Your Pixel can now double up as a full Android PC with nothing more than a USB-C cable
(www.androidauthority.com)
Mobile devices tend to be much less versatile than PCs, mind you, and on purpose, due to one of Steve Jobs' most misguided apprehensions, that it'd be a good idea to hide the filesystem from the user. (Cue someone somehow claiming that's Good Actually in three, two, one...)