Surely we can get a group of battery techs and mechanical engineers together to come up with a solution.
Hell, I've been bastardizing the "wrong" batteries into devices since the mid-70's, while today I'm usually replacing crappy built-in batteries with 18650's. And I'm no EE, just have a little skill and vision.
Surely the battery spec on this is pretty clear, and it's an off-the-shelf tech (not some odd chemistry devised by the company). Not that it really matters - a replacement merely needs to fit in the space, and match voltage and current requirements.
Uu tech folks tend to forget/overlook that most people are clueless as to how mobile devices work. I have IT friends who know practically nothing about the Android file system, or how apps store (but don't sync) data, for example. And these are people designing/implementing/supporting complex systems.
Most people can't be bothered if there's more than one or two steps. I can't walk my "70 year old uncle" through configuring an app on his phone, over the phone. The stuff he says he sees make no sense at all. I'm like "no, that's not what you should see, what did you click on"?.
My first inkjet was an HP bubblejet, about 1994. My last was some garbage about 2000. Since then I've refused to own one.
My 1997 laserjet (that I bought used in 2008) just died. I bougt a color laser on Craigslist for $50. And my current BW laser is a 2014 HP, that just got it's second cartridge.
The difference is even this pittance of a fine wouldn't happen in a planned economy - it would be like the planners fining themselves.
What we're seeing here is a result of the amoral "beastly" types concentrating power. What you're suggesting is to intentionally concentrate that power from the start.
Facebook is a great example of democracy - the billions of people using it have effectively (in their voluntary ignorance) voted for it to be like this. These are the same people who would vote for policies in a pure democracy.
And you're ignoring what happens in the SMB space, where people aren't part of the corrupt circle.
You're welcome to start a small community anywhere in the US with a planned economy, as proof of concept.
You could call it.... A commune, to indicate its goals.
Yea, not sure if these units can yet support expansion of a data set.
BTRFS and ZFS technically have the capability (from what I recall) in the latest versions, the question is does the device you're looking at support the capability? I haven't looked into enough of them to know for sure.
That said, my ancient Drobo can do this, but... It will only see the new size once you upgrade all the drives. It will resilver with a new larger drive but until all drives are upgraded it won't use the extra drive space of an added larger drive.
(And yes, Drobo is garbage, this one was free, I had some spare drives and I use it as a third local storage device, kind of a spare I don't really trust).
Your "job" isn't to "change" anyone's view - and a real pastor would know this.
Change is an individual thing, and a "real" pastor would be appalled at your idea of the implication of denying individuality by thinking you can make another person change.
Your job is to help people examine the world, examine themselves, and gain understanding, so they can determine for themselves what change needs to take place.
Thinking you can make others change (and thinking that the change you choose is the "correct" one) is the height of hubris, and offensive to the very concept of personhood.
By supporting networking (and also using a mesh to increase range).
As I understand "walkie talkie" radios, the spectrum they use (GMRS/FRS/CB/MURS, etc) isn't permitted to transmit data in a way that's useful for proper data networking (there's some allowance for data but not really anything like what most people think of as networking, and encryption is right out of the question).
For the most part, these radio specs can only increase range by use of repeaters. IIRC meshtastic takes a mesh approach to increasing range and reliability.
What do you mean by "possibility to upgrade storage other than just replacing drives with bigger ones"
That's pretty much all you can do with a fixed number of drive slots.
Today's NAS's use some form of ZFS/BTRFS, so they're really good at handling new drives. Though I think dynamic expansion is just coming on line in the latest versions, and may not be in production just yet
I can't speak to NAS, I've always "rolled my own" because no one makes what I want, let alone in a price point I can manage (I like to use 2.5" drives with a moderately powerful system as a media center/home server, etc, for compactness). My current box is an old small-form-factor desktop that maxes out at 3 drives, though I have 5 shoved into it.
For photos I use Syncthing (specifically Syncthing-Fork as it has more flexibility) on my phones to sync the DCIM folder to an always-on machine at home.
My DCIM folder syncs to a folder in my user profile on the server, other people sync to their respective folders. I permit this sync job to run in any network, with any power (AC or battery), so I never lose pictures I take.
This has a benefit of enabling me to manage photos from a pc, and those changes sync back to my phone (I generally move the photos out of the synced folder to somewhere else, this has the effect of removing them from the phone). Just don't use the built-in photo backup sync job, which only syncs photos from phone to PC.
Nice thing about Syncthing is you can sync anything anywhere however you want. Windows, Linux, Max, iOS (using Möbius).
I currently sync hundreds of gigs between several phones and several PCs. I have about a dozen sync jobs (folders in SyncThing terms). I also sync other folders from phones, to enable file management from a PC, since changes will be synced back with two-way sync jobs.
I never knew Boston was designed for cars (yes, that's sarcasm, Boston is known for its roads being enlarged footpaths dating back hundreds of years, some of which started as paths that animals took).
The US is much more complex than such a simple statement. US cities, historically, weren't so much designed as grew. And I still see that today. My town, a suburb of a city, was established about 1860 (140 years ago), when there was empty space between it and the city - farmland.
It certainly wasn't "designed for cars" that didn't exist at the time. The town I grew up in existed before cars.
And I've seen this all over the place. The cities grow until they run into small towns, which then become suburbs of the city. These small towns were often agriculture based (or manufacturing based), because farms need to take their cop to the train, the train stop ends up growing a town.
The only "designed" city I can think of is one in Maryland. There are others, but cities aren't "designed" - that implies an over-arching plan. Cities are organic, they grow.
If you want to make a "design" argument, Western Europe is much more in line with this idea, since so much infrastructure was destroyed by two successive world wars over 20 years, and the reconstruction with "modern" engineering and design that took place starting in the 1950's.
Yea, paypal is bad news all around
I guess most people don't know most banks have electronic funds transfer, or virtual credit cards, etc.