Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

@ajroach42 @LottieVixen ah that's barely 1 post each for every man, woman, and child on the planet

Might need two

@LottieVixen @ajroach42 I mean, compared to running underwater fibre lines across an ocean that's a bargain really

@ajroach42 @LottieVixen Back of the envelope calculations, if you use a FedEx small box and 256GB SD cards you'll have total capacity of over 450TB

It'd cost over a quarter of a million dollars but that should be enough capacity for it

And if not they're starting to make 1TB SD cards

@ajroach42 @LottieVixen Oh damnit, as with everything there's an XKCD (what if) for it https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/

@ajroach42 @LottieVixen I'm reminded of a Tanenbaum quote: "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."

Which can probably now be updated to "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a FedEx box full of hard drives"

@ajroach42 @LottieVixen It's very much like that, but on a larger scale

They call it El Paquete Semanal, every week a hard disk filled with stuff (films, music, TV, etc.) arrives in Cuba (somehow), and then it gets copied and sold on to a bunch of people

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Paquete_Semanal

https://www.vox.com/2015/9/21/9352095/netflix-cuba-paquete-internet

@LottieVixen @ajroach42 They can add their data to the packet and then it gets passed in a circle, one time investment in some portable hard drives rather than 1000+ things of one time use media

@ajroach42 @LottieVixen Do you have to have all the media as one time use?

'cause if you can bundle all the smaller files together and not worry about latency then you could use something like the "packet" in Cuba but extend it with local wireless nodes

Large lump of data gets passed around local node operators who make it available over wireless to their areas