The fundamental business model for these companies is to get everyone else beyond themselves or a small closed oligopoly from having control over these tools.
Quite the opposite. Wayland&Gnome are designed for tablets, phones, and barely laptops. Any usability on Desktop/Workstations is pure accident. Consider even the login screen-- it does nothing unless you do a completely inexplicable (on a mouse) click and swipe up.
As your theoretical "*nix geek" who mostly uses terminal windows, wayland and gnome provide an inferior experience to the daily driver software of 20 years ago.
Flash seems to lose its charge a lot faster than that, -- I found ordinary SSDs left in a closet for two years to be full of errors while matched sibling drives left in running systems were fine.
AFAICT the way most 'recovery' places work is that they'll recover data if there are no issues and any ordinarily skilled IT tech could also recover it. And then otherwise they'll claim it's unrecoverable. Sometimes, it seems, they'll even just claim its unrecoverable because they didn't happen to have or find a compatible drive when that's all that was needed.
I've recovered data from media a number of times a recovery company said it was unrecoverable with no particular difficulty.
I've also found meshtastic to be pretty ineffectual, in both urban enviroments and in totally rural ones where my devices are the only devices for >50 miles.
I've given more study to the latter, and I think it's the lack of store and forward reliable transmission. The messages goes out once and if it doesn't make it.. too bad so sad. The whole ecosystem strongly assuming you have internet access is also a real bummer.
If anyone is looking to improve it or develop a better alternative, I did help create a primitive you should consider using: https://github.com/sipa/minisketch
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