What a dumb take.

I like the idea, but these types is minipcs are meant to large use environment cooling. Cramming them into a rack is definitely going to accelerate their demise. RAM and SSD especially. I’m not seeing any mention of this accounting for extra cooling.

No, but Biden says he wasn’t going to enforce, so the incoming admin would have to do it.

Exactly

Bluesky has videos linked to a static host by a different site or provider. They are not themselves the host of those videos. Different scenario.

That’s not how this would have to work though. Even with dedicated seeding instances, the instantiation of a session for a torrent is LONG. Like 5s+ long. A request and response from a CDN is in the milliseconds. Users wouldn’t use a system that takes 5s just for the initial request for a single video, plus the additional time to sort for segments and recombining before it plays. Even in a fast-ish scenario, that’s like 10s alone.

Imagine waiting 10s for a stupid internet video to even start playing to watch some kid dance with a rubber chicken in their pants.

Yes, and it’s incredibly slow and wouldn’t scale to millions of users. If one user is high bandwidth, and another low, you’d have uneven distribution of traffic for a newly connecting user, meaning the entirety of whatever you’re about to watch won’t be completed in time for a good user interaction flow. The issue isn’t whether it’s technically possible or not, but if it’s functional enough for similar traffic as TikTok.

The other issue with torrenting is that a lot of users may incur data charges if the service were to be constantly seeding other users on limited data plans or with data or speed caps in general. It’s just not the right tool for the job.

109ms response time was the goal circa 2009. Now, with the advent of Kubernetes, response time as are in seconds. Proxies on top of proxies cost request time. Users will abandon.

Can you reform this question?

You apparently do not internet. Anything with a wait time is not an app platform people will use.

CDN won’t scale to millions of users all uploading videos on a decentralized system. Article is specifically talking about AT Protocol which doesn’t account for video. Making a global CDN distribution of videos from decentralized sources is whole other ball of wax.

Video will not work for AT whatsoever. Text and images, fine, but I’m pretty sure leveraging edge delivery of video is just not going to work out well for users. I think they’ll need a centralized host for that portion, or some fancy ways to offload bandwidth otherwise to prevent constant hammering of popular videos.

No special knowledge needed except the very basic ability to understand and run commands from documentation.

If it mounts, and you can read it, then it’s fine and you just need Proxmox to pay attention to it. Works like any Linux install and you need to add the disk into fstab BEFORE Proxmox starts up. Here’s a thread: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/how-to-mount-existing-disk-to-storage.66559/

Locked bootloader for warranty coverage: totally fine

Refusal for owner to unlock and void warranty: not fine.

Cliffhanger? Other upvotes because they know what I’m talking about. No cliffhanger.

Think about all the positional sensots in your phone. Then think about what it knows before going into this bag…then after.

Time elapsed, steps taken, speed, direction faced, phone orientation…it can tell you almost exactly where you are without GPS.

Your phone can still track plenty of info it can upload when it gets a network connection again if that’s the concern.

Most of the cars will still try to connect to open Wifi when available to upload data.