What about potting them up and moving them somewhere like the kitchen windowsill DD? might give them some more time warmer and help ripen them?
I'm thinking better go grab the new smartphone I bought earlier and start setting it up. Noticed something that wasn't advertised when I was looking the phones over and deciding which to buy, a nice surprise, in that it came with a 4gb removable flash drive on a chip about the size of a fingernail and 1mm or so thick. Damn, got to admit, the number of transistors they can get on semiconductor chips these days is getting pretty impressive in terms of compactness.
I've had plenty USB flash drives that were smaller capacity than 4 gig and at least 4'' long by about 3/4'' wide. And the SD card in my digital camera is only 512mb or so.
Although of course, I'll look for even higher capacity super-micro flash chips, but given the tiny size of the things, that would be ideal media to keep scientific my reference library on a set of high capactity micro smartcards, as well as, encrypted of course, lab notebooks in digitized form, as a place to keep all the finalized writeups for procedures after they have been fine-tuned and tweaked and the numbers all nicely tabled, rather than the paper notebooks I keep the notes that get taken in quick writing as I'm actually observing things, so I don't have to try and rely on mental notes later.
But for transfer to an archive, the size of the chips this phone takes, not sure what sizes they make them up to capacity-wise, but even with the 4 gig type like the one that came with the phone, probably bottom of the barrel capacity given its a throw-in, should think it could be feasible to get at least 1/4 terabyte in a homebuilt container not much larger than a packet of chewing gum if they were stacked properly.
Not too happy with its being android based and integrated with google to ANY degree, I won't even use google to search from my laptop; because they are pack of noxious data-mining whoreborn ratmasturbators who seem to take it as a given that MY data is something they have a right to exist in the same space as. Fuck that. I'll be setting up a VPN as soon as possible, and making sure the phone never logs on to the house router network, and I sure as shit draws flies and personal privacy is about as tolerable to google as a garlic-saturated holy water enema is to a vampire. Turned off all the location settings, made sure that google apps can't request to 'manage' my data usage, connections, phone calls or texts. The very thought makes my skin crawl.
I'll have to see if I can download a TOR port, and connect to it via a VPN, as the phone does support VPN usage.
Didn't pay for the phone in cash for no reason. Although at £65 odd inc. the 20 quid top up I bought to start it up with, etc.; it's definitely not a burner.
Thats not the kind of thing I'd even look for in a smart phone, for a burner I'd only want the capability to make and receive calls and texts, maybe access disposable webmail email accounts with a basic internet. A cheap ass camera/video, but then again these days you are probably hard pushed to find a genuine old brick phone. Wish I still had the handset I had when I was in my second spazz school, bought that secondhand for a tenner, and that didn't even have the capacity to connect to anything but phone lines for calls and texts. Although in a more modern size and weight, thats more or less what I need for a work phone. Something primitive that wouldn't even know what language g66gl6 speak in hell. The kind of dirt cheap ten quid piece of shit that if needs be can be smashed with a brick and dumped in the nearest canal.
And facebook set to autostart? nix THAT for a start! lol one of the first things I did was turn that off and bar it from talking to anything.
