Hmm article says 6GHz, but I’ve also had great success going through brick walls and refrigerators using mikrotik wireless wire - it’s 60GHz and the ship as a pair of PTP radios. I just tape them both facing the wall on either side and I got a gig through that. It also helps that the wireless wire has like a 60° directional antenna inside. My old apartment has an unused brick chimney structure that’s at least 2 brick walls that goes from basement to roof and I was surprised I was able to get it to penetrate that too including our refrigerator which was backed up against that spot on the wall.

Is running a pds really equivalent to running your own instance? As I understand it, 2 friends running their own pds cannot federate without the centralized relay which still can’t be self hosted.

I’ve done a backup swap with friends a couple times. Security wasn’t much of a worry since we connected to each other’s boxes over ssh or wireguard or similar and used tools that allowed encryption. The biggest challenge for us was that in my selfhosting friend group we all prefer different protocols so we had to figure out what each of us wanted to use to connect and access filesystems and set that up. The second challenge was ensuring uptime and that the remote access we set up for each other stayed up - and that’s what killed the project as we all eventually stopped maintaining the remote access and nobody seemed to care - so if I were to do it again I would make sure all participants have alerts monitoring their shared endpoint.

That seems like a pretty big hole in their lifecycle analysis. The ol’ tow it out of the environment strategy.

Isn’t Miracast for sending video data? The thing I like about Chromecast is that the phone or remote app just tells the Chromecast where to load the media directly from, and then only sends playback control commands. That makes it a lot lighter resource wise because you don’t need to proxy the stream through a device like a phone that wants to go to sleep to save battery.