I hope somebody has a better answer for you but I think it's just that the world has decided that one has to use two hands to operate a Smartphone now. I'd love a phone with a 5" screen but it looks like we are a (vocal) minority that's not profitable to serve?

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1102/

PHP 8 makes it possible to rescue the princess but your 83 legacy princesses are all still PHP 5.

A big issue for me with snap is, that the server side software is proprietary. So it really really does feel like they are trying for lock-in

I'm incredibly unqualified to even think about how one might get faster random access times but i was imagining sci-fi solutions like looped tape so that you are always at most 1/2 of the tape length away from the point you want to reach, or the tape equivalent of multi actuator hard drives where there's be multiple independent tapes in one cassette in a sort of RAID style thing but maybe instead of (only) striping data could be stored on multiple tapes in different places to always have one tape that is at a position close to the data you want. Or a system where the same tape has multiple read heads applied to it in distant places.

I like the idea of a Linux Phone. I don't know much about it. My bank's 2FA probably wouldn't be supported on that and i do need to have WhatsApp because it's the default mode of communication for everybody that's not deeply into privacy, right? What DE would you recommend?

BuT tHE mEssAGEs DiSaPPEar! So it has to be secure, who needs encryption anyways?

Bean work?

Thanks!

You could probably carry some apps on individual tapes with you? If it was all miniaturized enough and we can cache some things. Digital photos and videos would work too as that obviously has been done many years ago.

Do we really need our modern data storage for mobile phones? Mobile phones for sure would be very very different than our modern smart phones but mobile phone networks don't sound impossible. Of course the internet would have to work very differently too, but maybe routing and forwarding could be done just with everything from RAM?

I wonder if there are any technical reasons with maybe ActivityPub that old posts might have to eventually be archived?

But I enjoy the idea of never archiving or at least keeping posts open for a long time like 10 years. I'm not sure why but there is something special aboaut old threads being revived or kept alive. I had this one comment on Reddit where I purchased a product and months and years later people would still respond asking if it was still working or if I'd still recommend it. This I is like "The internet never forgets" but in a good way.

NT Cassettes were about the size of a full size SD card and maybe twice as thick and that was in 1992. Imagine what 31 years of research could have done to that technology!

Hey I have never contributed to OSM and I just looked at https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.westnordost.streetcomplete/ on fdroid and there is a warning about "This app promotes or depends entirely on a non-free network service". Do you know which non-free network this is referring to?

As somebody who likes using the terminal I too have mostly stopped using dd and use gnome disks instead. Getting the rightdd flags to get the best performance and progress indicators is a challenge to Google every time.

I'm aware of the enterprise backup solutions as mentioned in the main post. Still 45 TB are very impressive. But I was just wondering how diverse and powerful tape could be if it was the only viable storage solution. I'm assuming high speed rewinding and seeking and miniaturization would be something that the industry would have put a lot of effort into in that case, but for backup solutions those properties are less important.

That's of course true, i was just wondering how far we could push it.

I'm just playing casually with some friends. I've tried a Mokey Mokey deck as well as a Wight deck. The Wight one is pretty fun and works rather well with Wightbaking doing most of the work. The Mokey Mokey deck is ... well ... it's Mokey Mokey so it doesn't really work even with adrift now being a thing, then again we play super casually so it has worked out once before.

How does Egyptian god suship deck work? Is it 3x The True Name and 1x Obelisk? I have all the suship cards just because they are like the coolest design ever, but i haven't built a deck with them.