Remote backup server would be my suggestion.
Configure it with a VPN to talk to your home network and set it up at a trusted friend's or family's place.
I do this with a raspberry pi and an external HDD that takes daily/weekly/monthly snapshots, with daily rsync. Works nicely for me.
Awesome bandwidth to be sure, but I do think there is a difference between data transfer to RAM (such as network traffic) vs. traffic purely from one location to another (station wagon with tapes/747 with SD cards/etc.).
For the latter, actually using the data in any meaningful way is probably limited to read time of the media, which is likely slow.
But yeah, my go-to would be micro SD cards on a plane :)
My headcanon for The Matrix's "humans are batteries" is that it's the machines' perverse interpretation of this
killing the humans is off the table, and for whatever reason letting them live with no purpose to serve the machines is also disallowed. But giving their lives "meaning" in the form of a shitty (and thermodynamically dubious) "battery" somehow satisfies the rules.
It's a very big stretch, I'll admit...
Fun fact, the (rough) conversion efficiency of calories to mechanical joules in the human body (separate from the mechanical to electrical you're referring to) is about 25%
but this is about the same factor as going from calories to joules! So, for a human to put out 13.5 kJ of energy would require about 13.5 food calories (kilocalories).
I'm guessing it's because the developers either have a different speciality that they focus on, are employed to support specific hardware, or both.
*Nobel memorial prize. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Economic_Sciences
(Unless these folks won the Nobel prize and then switched fields.)
Yes I realize this is incredibly pedantic...
Duh, just read it back from /dev/random
You will recover the data, you just need to wait long enough.
Same argument against vegetarianism/veganism
we have teeth "designed" or evolved for eating meat, thus we should eat meat.
...we also have brains capable of abstract reasoning, but nevermind that!
Perhaps microwaving for significantly longer, at a low power level, would be safer and result in higher success/yield?
Whatever you do, do not touch that one BNC cable. Just trust me on this.