.66 * 1.4 = .92, so it's even less.

I guess the drives just cost too much and so zip won until flash drives took over.

I would be overjoyed if a human-level amount of spam cost $1000 per year-or-until-caught.

If you're on a stable address, and the interface goes down, will it let your connection/socket continue to exist?

Because if the connection/socket gets lost either way, I don't really care if the IP changes too.

If you're going through the effort to be open source you can probably set up fixed batch sizes and deterministic combination of batches without too much more effort. At least I hope it's not super hard.