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What's your experience with the sneakernet? (leminal.space)

submitted 3 weeks ago by CorrodedCranium@leminal.space to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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For those that don't know what the sneakernet is it's essentially transferring data through physical means. For example I would occasionally download TV shows to a hard drive for a friend who didn't have access to the internet after they thought they cancelled their subscription to their ISP and acquired hundreds of dollars of debt. You can find a Wikipedia page for the term sneakernet here.

Have any of you set something up with your neighbors or family? I'd include LAN setups where content as shared as part of the sneakernet. Kind of similar to how stuff has been distributed in Cuba.

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[–] LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.org 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

The problem I've run into is versioning, determining which collection is most "ahead". We've had a large drive which was once used collectively by my family, but with everyone moving around it's been demoted to a more downstream status.

[–] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Would the collection just keep growing or would you delete content? Maybe periodically so if you haven't watched the new Bettlejuice movie within a couple weeks it would get deleted? Maybe they wouls hold onto stuff until you've got it and watched it?

The idea of versioning it with your family stash is neat

[–] LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

It can and does continue to grow. We do not delete content. There is a trove of old (not recently acquired) files on these drives that several members have not gotten around to yet.

I am currently trying to devise a system wherein these different drives can be synced across geographically distant locations. Like a bi-directional rsync system which doesn't remove extraneous files from the destination.