Have seen a definite uptick in Bamboo ads since they made their anti-consumer changes. Great printers. Sucks they’re starting the slide to corporate assholes.

Fair, apparently at some point I conflated GNSS and Galileo.

5-10h battery life. Their goal list includes 20h idle time and recording video. It seems to be using some nonstandard SIM and only has GNSS, not GPS. Which is probably fine functionally but apparently they weren’t able to source a GPS chip to use the US system that met whatever their standards are? Large list of negatives for something the price of a shiny new foldable, or several non-foldable smartphones.

They also seem to be doing the usual dance of “Made in USA!!!*”

* what you think of when you think “electronic components” sourced from Asian countries, mostly we’re talking about assembly and that this is where it’s put in the consumer packaging.

Yes actually.

(They fold like a Navy carrier plane so they will fit at existing airport gates.)

Yea some kind of fork of the torrent protocol where you can advertise “I have X amount of space to donate” and there’s a mechanism to give you the most endangered bytes on the network maybe. Would need to be a lot more granular than torrents to account for the vast majority of nodes not wanting or being capable of getting to “100%”.

I don’t think the technical aspects are insurmountable, and there’s at least some measure of a builtin audience in that a lot of people run archiveteam warrior containers/VMs. But storage is just so many orders of magnitude more expensive than letting a little cpu/bandwidth limited process run in the background. I don’t know that enough people would be willing/able to donate enough to make it viable?

~70 000 data hoarders volunteering 1TB each to be a 1-1 backup of the current archive.org isn’t a small number of people, and that’s only to get a single parity copy. But it also isn’t an outrageously large number of people.

It would be interesting to have encrypted blobs scattered around volunteer computers/servers, like a storage version of BOINC / @HOME.

People tend to have dramatically less spare storage space than space compute time though and it would need to be very redundant to be guaranteed not to lose data.