I quite like the Exforce series but the last two books kinda felt cash grabby.

I’ll check out Stainless Steel Rat.

I’ll check her out, thanks for the recommendation

I’m working to move what I have to Valkey, no more rugpull games tyvm.

That sounds like it needs its own community. “Hostile Architecture” I love it.

Edit: I googled the term and think it could be a sub. https://www.re-thinkingthefuture.com/designing-for-typologies/hostile-architecture-anti-homeless-architecture/

Bees need pollen. We need bees and you can self host them.

I have 2 kids under 4. Problem solved.

Mint or Ubuntu is like Windows but better.

You’re welcome, I own all their games

Do you follow Introversion software?

Their journey is similar in a lot of ways they built games with mechanics they liked or wanted to use again once tested and ended up making a hit game in Prison Architect then sold it off to a bigger publisher.

It’s for developers to not switch dev machines from Windows. The average user would be far better served with Mint or Ubuntu versions of Linux for Windows like experience.

Reliability. We’ve put them in small businesses and they do their job very well VS a frankenpc NAS.

I have 2 8-Bay devices at home and they are so good for what they are. Silent, low power, bit of fancy utility for those that like it but reliable and quality. They age very well.

I also use the surveillance station with my cameras which all connected ootb fine. (mix of brands)

The real shame is they didn’t open source the app on decom.

You asked the drawback on a thread about Synology.

Doesn’t look like it hooks into their unifi ecosystem which would be a big negative for me.

Edit: the pro does but what that even looks like idk

While I agree with the doing whatever you want on a custom build I very much doubt the reliability as per my comment here.

https://lemmy.world/comment/16523392

Personally I’ll be moving to rack units when these finally kick the bucket.

Only 7 bays and small rack size. It’s a NAS not like Synology + series.

Grab one of the 8 bays now, this won’t affect anything currently released. I don’t see me having to retire my 1813+ or 1819+ (both 8bay) anytime soon and both are 4+ years old without a hiccup.

The Unifi rackmount NAS looks pretty sweet imho.

The reason why Synology is great is their bulletproof reliability.

Sure you might be able to make a PC perform the same spec for spec but will it actually? And even with these devices, they are so far from Apple it isn’t funny, you have to set up a fair bit still to make the most of them. Also why use a 500w psu VS low power consumption of a NAS device.

Honestly HDDs/SDDs are a disposable part of the backup ecosystem, I get that they want some extra money but there are already scripts to overcome some of the existing compability checkers in these systems.

I get why they do this sort of thing but it didn’t stop us re-adding video station and h265 support back into our Synos.

Someone already made a script to overwrite the existing compatible drive checker so someone will write a new script to fix the new one.

https://github.com/007revad/Synology_HDD_db

https://github.com/007revad/Video_Station_for_DSM_722

This way my thought, I highly doubt they are getting none, just not looking at the proxy logs.