@requiem I need to pull my head out of my big infrastructure ass. My first thoughts were that maintenance would make@this impossible, then that ephemeral workloads were the only type that would make sense, you couldn’t self host anything on it because it wouldn’t be reliable.

But like, reliable enough? Can I put my barbershops website on it and proudly tell others how cool it is? You bet.

@requiem I had a similar idea. Filecoin was almost a thing, it would back ipfs and you could earn for hosting files. I even tried to work for ipfs but wasn’t willing to take the risk without health insurance and a young family. (And that was the right choice it seemed)

I drew up plans for a Brazilian storage unit like you designed but with local electronics so no 200% tariff. Plug a few in and make some cash and provide local storage in areas underserved by data centers.

@reconbot yeah, I left out a lot of that stuff because it would probably be boring to most folks and distract from the overall point.

I definitely have solutions for that, and yeah, part of it is that it would never be useful for super resource-intensive workloads by design. 😇

@requiem filecoin like the one for IoT devices (helium? Hnt?) wasn’t feasible. It’s the wrong thing. But ipfs like service on these devices powering backups? I saw some people letting people trying to start that. Sell your disk space!

Backups are the ultimate low connectivity, easily distributed, failure tolerant workload. The industry price is currently $7 a tb a month. Or $5 a month for “unlimited”. Could probably charge more for the social and environmental aspects.