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

submitted 2 years 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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[-] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago

I personally download stuff for my friend who's been stuck in a personal care place for the last ~6 months, getting him shows and movies he's wanted to watch but never had the time before.

I often torrent on my Raspberry Pi as I go about my day, transfer to my laptop via FTP, double check for file integrity, then transfer to a 1TB "flash drive" I made out of a M.2 drive and enclosed bay at his care facility.

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