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Yes, a Pigeon is Faster for Data Transfer than Gigabit Fiber Internet::A decade ago, a pigeon with a 4 GB memory stick outran an ISP’s ADSL service. A 2023 rematch features a bird with 3 TB of flash drives vs gigabit internet.

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[-] Piers@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I can't remember who (probably all of them) but one of the fang companies offers a service where they'll send you a truck with a huge backup server in a shipping container to do an on site backup to drive back to their cloud servers (for similar reasons.)

[-] bezerker03@lemmy.bezzie.world 12 points 1 year ago

Amazon snowmobile it's called. Let's you uoad to s3 that way.

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