xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

If only he lived long enough maybe I could see this happening.

@Royper Half of these places aren't even in my town and the other half have local alternatives.

@john@liberdon.com I'm just use to range listing and iterating like you do with arrays. I never liked the whole iterator pattern. It seemed like a waste.

@gabriel It looks like NFC can transfer up to 1KB. That's not enough to even transfer or store an image. NFC is designed for storing basic information like phone numbers, credit card info, or special codes like in Nintendo's Amiibos.

https://www.quora.com/How-much-data-can-be-stored-on-an-NFC-chip

You have better luck storing data via QR codes. It's even possible to store a simple game on one like what this guy did.

https://invidious.poast.org/watch?v=ExwqNreocpg

@LukeAlmighty This is literally the same thing as that Hot or Not game from 15 years ago. I remember seeing it on iGoogle and Google Desktop back when those things existed.

I would like to have a word with whoever was responsible for the filesystem library in C++. Iterator objects are from the devil.

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/filesystem

White Rose Mucho Grande - #SolutionsWatch

https://www.corbettreport.com/solutionswatch-whiterose/

So, I was thinking about housing the prototype kiosk in something like a PiCade with a hole for the USB port drilled in. I think the PiCade would probably be the best fit for the prototype because I would like the thing to be coin operated if the owner chooses to do so.

I could probably write a UI in C++ with SFML. I would like the interface to be as user friendly as possible. It should be able to browse the files on the kiosk and the files the user has in on the flash drive and the user can then exchange files that way. I will probably write the software and test it on a regular computer first before building the actual prototype.

I honestly don't know how long this will take. I have other things to balance in my life of course, but this is something I would love to do. And if someone wants to beat me to it, go right ahead, make money off of it, take all the credit. I don't care. I feel like this is something worth making and I don't care who does it.

@gabriel
>I considered something similar using a captive portal and a wireless access point.

That's basically a PirateBox, but that project is dead now because more routers use locked-firmware these days.

http://www.piratebox.cc/

>Can NFC tags scale to large files?

I don't know. I never messed with NFC.