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This. Many legit, but questionable features blown out of proportion already caused many issues with regulators who just don't want to get into details, but just delist from sales/ban the device.
And once you start talking about "jamming" and other 1337 h4x0r stuff - which is straight up illegal and can get you into trouble - on official platforms, don't get offended when that gets removed.
It is. As the article says, all development goals for FZ had been achieved and even overachieved - providing solid and feature-rich firmware, powerful SDK and developer tools. With that and development shift towards new products, updates to core firmare became infrequent - and we tried to address that.
Src: I'm one of the developers behind Flipper Zero.
Bitmagnet -https://bitmagnet.io/ - does exactly that. I left it running for a few weeks and then stopped the crawler. Didn't expect much, but still somewhat disappointed by the garbage it reeled in.
Since the whole thing is not documented anywhere, it's hard to rely on or exploit. From my experience, it works.
Check out search results on "gsuite legacy storage increase 5gb", multiple users reported on their experience with it. It looks like extra space is granted if you're close to the limit, but not over it, for ~1 week.
There are also single reports on Google taking back the extra storage - back to 15(17)Gb - for people with extreme (ab)use of the feature, who stacked hundreds of gigabytes through 5Gb steps. Couldn't verify any of them.
I'm using 50-license GSuite since 2009, if that matters.
Huh. Which edition are you on, the no-cost business starter they migrated some users to or the GSuit legacy free? How long did your account stay at 97% space? From my experience, it takes a week to trigger.
I'm on the legacy free edition, and the auto increase worked for me as of November last year. I'm sitting on 41G used out of 51G limit, with photos taking up 29G. I have a second user in my workspace who also benefits from this feature.
Google won't let me give them money to upgrade my storage
While not explicitly documented anywhere, they automatically increase your storage limits once you approach a certain margin of remaining free space. That happens around Tuesday-Wednesday, they just add extra 5Gb to your limit.
We use littlefs in Flipper Zero's firmware[1] for storage in leftover flash space after the main firmware image. Flipper implements a virtual FS, where both external SD card and internal storage have own mount points. SD card is used for storing apps and user-created data, and internal littlefs contains persistent data like BLE pairing, system services' configs and such.
LFS has neat features like wear leveling and optimizations for storing tiny files directly in their parent directory's data structures[2].
We never had any issues with littlefs - however, it cannot be easily resized when amount of available leftover space changes with firmware updates. So on installing an update, it gets fully backed up to SD card, reformatted and later restored.
[1] https://github.com/flipperdevices/flipperzero-firmware/blob/...
[2] https://github.com/littlefs-project/littlefs/blob/master/DES...