Interesting point. The other point is sneakernet. That is, providing a communication where they can communicate changes to the financial data (results of doctor visits, big banking transactions, etc.) which would be done by TW writing data to the USB key and then passing that to others as needed.
This issue is getting to be almost as big as simply encrypting a file in the cloud. Hmm. On Sunday, October 14, 2018 at 5:04:55 PM UTC-7, Mark S. wrote: > > I'm not a Mac person, but I'm following along. > > Do I understand this correctly: You can only access a USB stick via an App > specifically made for that stick? And can only access files that that app > allows? So if a usb manufacturer doesn't provide good codecs, you might not > be able to view videos directly on the stick? Wow, that's limiting. > > Given that many USB sticks allow transferring of videos and none (or is > there one? which one BTW?) allow HTML, wouldn't it be better offload the > videos to a stick instead? Your daughter's bound to run out of space if she > keeps making videos on the device. > > I would be surprised if your personal data weighed in at more than 10 > megs. On my ancient 6 year old Android devices, 10 Megs is about the upper > limit. But 10 megs is an awful lot of information in text form. 6 megs can > hold an entire Bible for instance, which is about equivalent to 6000 one > page documents. > > Good luck! > -- Mark > > > On Sunday, October 14, 2018 at 3:18:35 PM UTC-7, David Masterson wrote: >> >> Interesting possibility. My concern was potential size of the financial >> records over time chewing up significant space on the iPhones internal >> storage (daughter likes to fill storage with her self-produced videos). >> Use of a USB key can add to the storage significantly, but I'm not sure yet >> of that possibility. I have found at least one USB key (with SD card) >> that connects both to Windows/Mac and to iPhone lightning and supports HTML >> (among many others) files. Not sure what the extent of the support is, >> though. >> >> Don't you think this would be use-case to partner with one or more >> companies to work on providing an off-the-shelf TiddlyWiki setup that works >> with their USB key to provide (virtually) unlimited and secure storage and >> application tools that works across all system types that support USB >> interfaces? I would think it would be a good way to get a big cash >> infusion without taking TiddlyWiki closed-source. >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/2bd7c758-1593-4bed-86d3-d1d0eacba847%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
