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https://wikipedia.org/wiki/LinkNYC

In practice, I think I've seen only a handful of people use them directly. It is soo conspicuous using one of these in broad daylight. Lots of people use the ports for charging, though. Also how NYC is this:

> Each Link has cameras and over 30 vibration sensors to sense if the kiosk has been hit by an object

So I’d take my expensive, heavy PS5, unplug it, and carry it to a download kiosk? And then wait 2-3 hours for a patch because it might be server-side throttled? And I’d also need a display of sorts to monitor progress.

I don’t think the idea is going to sell in this day and age.

For a laptop I could just occupy a coffee shop WiFi, and get coffee.

If you can bring that to kiosk and you live close enough to drive there, the problem is already solved. Even a radio bridge could do.

Reminds me of when I was in university, and only had dial-up at home, so I bought a Zip drive for my PC, knowing the computer labs had the same, and I could take stuff home that way.