It’s the perfect combo of cozy but not zero challenge - this would be my pick in op’s shoes

I know it’s not totally relevant but I once convinced a company to run their log aggregators with 75 servers and 15 disks in raid0 each.

We relied on the app layer to make sure there was at least 3 copies of the data and if a node’s array shat the bed the rest of the cluster would heal and replicate what was lost. Once the DC people swapped the disk we had automation to rebuild the disks and add the host back into the cluster.

It was glorious - 75 servers each splitting the read/write operations 1/75th and then each server splitting that further between 15 disks. Each query had the potential to have ~1100 disks respond in concert, each with a tiny slice of the data you asked for. It was SO fast.

Typing “kill -9” into a terminal is the equivalent to breaking out the acetylene torch when a nut won’t budge

My tinfoil hat can run linux

I will be loudly knocking on wood after posting this, but I set up my NAS with RAID5 and have had 1 drive die on me but I hot-swapped one in and recovered the entire volume.

No regrets, highly recommend raid5

I’ve asked for help finding API endpoints that do what I want because I’m feeling too lazy to pour over docs and it’ll just invent endpoints that don’t exist

Now I’m on the toilet at work and I feel like going to sleep

They’re revving their 4-bangers and it’s turning me on now?!

You really took the time to comment and complain that you’ve already seen this? You’re… upset that your time was wasted?

Buddy. Cmon.

I don’t know this for sure but getting airdrop to work on a win machine might not result in the most stable solution - it looks like most of the solutions are open source projects which are fun but idk if I would personally trust them to be working 100% of the time when you need it at the end of class.

I think it’s a decent option to consider if you can get your hands on an actual Apple device to test with, imho. Airdrop is fairly proprietary and made hard to integrate with by Apple on purpose in my opinion. The other thing to consider is how big the files are - if you use an airdrop receiver you will need enough space on it to hold everyone’s files.

I really liked the email idea someone had too - if the students have their own email addresses they could email their projects to themselves. Same consideration there though, if the files are too big you might piss off the IT guy.

Two more spitballs-

Do the students have any network storage that the IT guy could help get mapped on the ipads?

Does the school have any remote learning type software that students can turn assignments in electronically? Could see if that software has an ipad app that adds a “share to” option when exporting a project? Long shot but maybe

Ooh, i like making them airdrop it to a host machine, that’s one-way. Only deal is that you have to manually order and expose it via network, or restore it later manually both of which are a little untenable 🤔

It’s not an elegant solution but I know they make USB sticks with lightning connectors, could maybe find a way to make them back their projects up to it at the end of the day? Unsure if this works with garage band tho, just brainstorming

Oh ho ho, not just in public my friend

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!!

Anything unrelated to elephants is irrelephant.

This was how I learned my SO’s dead name - i avoided it for like 9 months then she had to venmo me for something. 😭

Oh well, mission accomplished by waiting as long as possible to learn it; I’ve only known her by her proper name for so long that her dead name is meaningless to me. 🙌

The Canadian goose is molting

Best I can do is them banding together to fuck normal people over and extract as much cash as they can

Jokes on you I’m a tardigrade

BEES!?!