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I just realized... I'm pretty sure your average DVD-R burns faster than most peoples' upload speed. In other words, burning a DVD can be literally faster than uploading to the cloud.
@onf our networking teacher once made us do some math where we had to compare the speed of:
-gigabit ethernet cable going to the next town
vs
-a puli dog with a high capacity usb flash drive affixed to its collar
turns out, if the file is big enough, you should send the dog
(and I think some big company also did a data transfer by just packing HDDs into 1-2 trucks)
@grainloom @onf Quoth an old CompSci teacher some 25 or so years ago:
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a Yugo full of backup-tapes."
