NY is next
New York Senate Bill S8102A goes further. It “requires manufacturers of internet-enabled devices to conduct age assurance” to check all users’ ages, and provide this info to “all websites, online services, online applications and mobile applications” – as well as app stores.
At 5mbps it should take about 1 hour for 2GB. It sounds like your actual speed is 2-3x lower. Can you take that up with your ISP? Are you certain your machine has the best connection within your control, i.e. directly wired into the router? Network equipment is not faulty? Have you tested with iperf within your network? Just in case there’s another issue beside the slow external speed…
Another thing that springs to mind is to use a backup tool like restic that will not only compress but deduplicate your data into hundreds of small files that might make upload faster. Dedup can save significant space and you can try it out locally first. Just do restic init then restic backup PATH.
Restic can use rclone as a backend also and upload straight to google: https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/stable/030_preparing_a_new_repo.html#other-services
Finally there’s sometimes nothing faster than physically moving data. A person jogging with a 100gb drive has great bandwidth! Is there a location with better internet within reach? A library or school perhaps?
The danger being raised with the licensing is that you can’t license something if you’re not considered to be the author. There are growing examples of courts and lawmakers determining AI output to be public domain:
The US Supreme Court recently refused to reconsider Thaler v. Perlmutter, in which the plaintiff sought to overturn a lower court decision that he could not copyright an AI-generated image. This is an area of ongoing concern among the defenders of copyleft because many open source projects incorporate some level of AI assistance. It’s unclear how much AI involvement in coding would dilute the human contribution to the extent that a court would disallow a copyright claim.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/06/ai_kills_software_licensing/
This is an evolving, global situation and hard to know what to do right now. I think what you’ve got is fine though - you’ve made it clear your intention is to license with AGPL. It’s just that depending on the jurisdiction it might be public domain instead.
This is another reason to be clear about the use of AI in the README so your users can make an informed decision.
I like your thought so I wondered if there is a site to help people pick a distro and found this:
https://distrochooser.de/
For a windows gamer type of person it came up with Linux Mint
https://distrochooser.de/en/d59f9b3e7b9b/
…at the top of a long list of other choices. Not bad!