Molecular0079 @ Molecular0079 @lemmy.world

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The preloaded spyware OS

Nowhere in that video did it say this. I am all for DIY NAS and I have an Arch-based one at home, but saying this while implying that that's what the source video you linked said is a bit disingenuous.

To be honest, nothing about this UGREEN is any different from any of the other off-the-shelf NAS solutions out there like QNAP, Synology, etc. If you don't trust the UGREEN pre-installed OS, you shouldn't trust any of the other ones either. I am not saying you should, but my point is that this pretty par for the course as far as pre-built NASes go.

Most companies do not provide support if you install a custom OS. That isn't a sign of vendor lock-in, just a matter of keeping support feasible in the long-term, especially since they're relatively new at this. If you want a custom OS, it is far easier and cheaper to just build your own.

I've been using it for years and now I basically can't live without it. I consider OpenWrt compatibility in all of my router purchases. Currently using a Netgear R7800 and a Belkin RT3200, both are going strong.

It isn't as widely used because it can be finicky to flash sometimes, and that's if it's even compatible in the first place. Even if it works, you may experience a drop in performance unless OpenWrt supports using the routers hardware acceleration features. If there's no support, OpenWrt basically uses the onboard CPU to do routing and they're usually not all that powerful.

encrypted file stored on a free tier data storage (many are free for the first year)

I am confused, aren't you just pushing the problem further up the chain? Now you need to worry about storing the key that decrypts the file storing the key you wanted to protect in the first place.

Same goes with tarsnap, now you need to worry about where to store the tarsnap keys.

What are good places to store your encryption keys? I am trying to find solutions that aren't just store a piece of paper in some security deposit box.

Yeah it's literally free marketing for them and they're crushing the community.

Man I feel the same way, the internet can be so negative sometimes. People just need to relax. I've been waiting to play ever since it came out on PS5 and I held out for the PC version. Now it's finally here and I am super excited for it to be honest. It's a good port by Nixxes and runs like a dream on my PC. The game looks insanely good too, so it's a technical marvel in my book.

My main issue with it is that it is way too thick. Most lopsided camera bumps somehow are more compact and thinner. You'd think with the amount of real estate that visor takes up they'd be able to make it flush with the rest of the back somehow, or at least match the thickness of phone cameras

I really wish they'd ditch that stupid camera bar. Every phone case attempts to hide it and it just makes the whole thing needlessly thick.

No kidding. This solves a major issue with the Steam Deck as well, because now someone else can be playing on the Deck while you use your main PC for another game.

It's a native app on Windows and Mac?

You should do it. Easy to setup using either their official AIO image or the community-driven micro service one. I am using the latter and it's been amazing. It's completely replaced Google Drive, Calendar, and Contacts for me and with the DAVx5 Android App it feels like a drop-in replacement. I am also using the auto upload feature to back up my photos to it.

Not true. Cumulative updates also take a while, so do the .NET runtimes. Maybe you have a system with a super fast NVMe drive and a new CPU so you don't realize it, but other OSes can do much more with much less powerful hardware.

I use podman with the podman-docker compatibility layer and native docker-compose. Podman + podman-docker is a drop-in replacement for actual docker. You can run all the regular docker commands and it will work. If you run it as rootful, it behaves in exactly the same way. Docker-compose will work right on top of it.

I prefer this over native Docker because I get the best of both worlds. All the tutorials and guides for Docker work just fine, but at the same time I can explore Podman's rootless containers. Plus I enjoy it's integration with Cockpit.

Settings and internet are fine. I dunno what to tell you. Very frequently Windows update shows its head, like I'll randomly want to restart my computer because I installed a piece of software that required it, and then it kicks off a long round updates when I just want to use my computer.

I still think having to leave it on and let it run in the background is still just addressing the symptoms. An update process should be way faster than that so that such a thing isn't needed.

I turn off modern standby. I don't want my computer turning on when I am not around or when I am asleep. For laptops, modern standby is famous for turning it on while its in your laptop bag, causing overheating and battery drainage.

I think if an update process is annoying enough to require something like Modern Standby in order to be "seamless", it needs to be improved.

Cockpit definitely has the ability to create bridge devices. I haven't found a tutorial specifically for cockpit, but you can follow something like this and apply the same principles to the "Add Bridge" dialog in Cockpit's network settings.

is a YOU problem.

Wtf is this crap? How is it MY problem when other OSes do a much better job with the update process? You talk about 15 minutes or leaving updates running overnight as if that's decent. I can do a Linux update within 2 minutes and get my system back up by minute 3. That's the kind of performance I am expecting and I don't even need a super fast NVMe drive to do it.

The fact that you're okay with putting up with Window's comparatively slow update speed and then have to make excuses for it by saying that the USER needs to constantly baby it or waste power by leaving it overnight is honestly hilarious. To be quite frank, you just don't know how updates could be better because you're just used to what Windows has always offered you.

Don't put the blame on users for a problem that Microsoft can definitely solve but never does.

Most updates on my system are handled overnight, outside the active hours I’ve set in the settings.

Not everyone leaves their computer on draining power. I always put it to sleep when I am not using it. If your argument is that, yeah updates aren't a problem, you just let your computer run and chew on it for a long time, that's still a problem...

I am guessing you run your computer all the time instead of putting it to sleep, because it's never a process that completes transparently in the background for me. It will always build up and then I have to go in and manually trigger it. Or I have to restart because I installed a new application that requires it and then it decides to do them all at once and takes forever.

The longest update I’ve had took about 15 minutes.

Asking someone to take 15 minutes out of their work time to do updates is exactly why people DON'T want to update. Even 15 minutes is insane. That's a whole standup meeting, that's a whole presentation, that's work disruption for a bunch of people.

Linux updates in a minute. That's the kind of performance we SHOULD be expecting in the modern age and that Microsoft refuses to deliver.