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08 May 2025
Clean pulls, nice snap on the switch its...
Clean pulls, nice snap on the switch itself.
03 November 2022
They shot for the clouds and wound up in the mud.
Kickstarter backer here. I was the proud owner of a Black and Blue unit - it went in the trash.
Cloud Guys Corporation, aka Lima (nee Plug) was a company that took an off-the-shelf device called the Bifferboard and added some software to it in an attempt to provide a personal cloud sync device. The device itself never really worked well, being slow due to the already old hardware, slow due to the massive amounts of interpreted python the client used, and fragile because it stored files in a proprietary format that the device had to break up and write to your hard drive. CGC released a "second" version to distance from bad reviews - which was simply changing the title on sales platforms. They tried for a third time, releasing a new device, but by this time it was too late. The bad software, unreliable connectivity, need for their servers in the middle (personal? nope.) and general bullpuckey of the thing made them throw in the towel in early 2019. CGC shut the servers for this thing down and they no longer work for their intended cloud function.
This thing could have been a nice little "sits in the background" device. CGC wanted to force it to be a complete replacement for your "My Documents" folder, and that wasn't what the market needed.
Regardless, the servers for this thing are gone. Unless you want a Bifferboard to play with, there's no need for this device.