alekwithak @ alekwithak @lemmy.world

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Well it doesn't look like text lol Just having some fun with you. Work is a slog today -_-

Are you attempting to troll me? You replied to me. I refuted your comment and you tell me to calm down, which for you to act like a basic conveyance of information is emotionally charged is a common troll tactic. I then ask what you're talking about and you tell me it's not that serious. Well it's serious now, buddy! You better start talking or I am going to FREAK. THE. FUCK. OUT. You interacted with me. You wanted this.

That is my point exactly. The actors on St. Denis Medical and Animal Control are much more diverse looks-wise than sitcoms like Friends or How I met Your Mother or anything people praise from the past.

What gave you the impression that I'm angry? And given that in response to me you've taken back what you've said and clarified you were exaggerating both your lack of knowledge on the topic and your claims regarding the average person it sounds like you're angry at me that I called you on those. Let's call the whole thing off.

Do normal people watch TV anymore?

What an insane thing to ask. 'normal people' is hard to define but yes the average person still watches TV. Plenty of weirdos still play for cable, most people stream, and I believe most on the fediverse probably sail the high seas as I do, but we're all still watching TV.

I don't know any of these

Really? You don't know any of them? You don't even know It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, a show that's been on since 2005? Abbott Elementary, Animal Control, and St. Denis Medical are all really good sitcoms, and aside from Joel McHale nobody looks like AI. Idk if it counts but Harley Quinn is pretty funny as well. Point is there's some pretty popular shows here, I doubt you're being genuine when you say you don't know any of them, and aside from that they're all starring real looking, real people. In fact I'd argue TV shows have never in the past cast as many normal looking people as they currently do.

I mean there's still sitcoms and none of them look like this.

Accuracy is not really relevant to the conversation. The point is that though the Chinese app gets a lot of crap for being a dataminer, the American social media apps are no better and in fact worse because they create ghost profiles of non users and make a ton of money selling that data indiscriminately. There's no need to take offense, it isn't a personal attack on your privacy practices.

Then they still have a profile on you.

This is wild. I decided to see what was what and clicked the link in my email to upgrade. It took me to the upgrade site and I pasted in my license key also retrieved from an email, and it said the license was inactive. I tried to retrieve the key again in case they had changed it, but it said no key associated with my email. Again they had emailed me the link to upgrade. Then I moved to my PC where I clicked the link in the application to upgrade and it autofilled my license key, same issue. Oh well, I put in a ticket, but I'm no worse off than I was before. Thanks for the info, though.

TIL to not downvote is to lie.

Whaaaat?? That's interesting, thanks. I will definitely have to look into that. I didn't bother with the new one I just got mad lol

More like Buys the same data from Meta but okay.

I work and socialize with many Gen Xers and they are very near and dear to my heart, so please know that I say this with all the love in the world. Gen X is left out of the conversation because they're irrelevant to it. They want so badly what their boomer parents had that they may as well just be boomers. If we're talking comedy, music, culture, Gen X has made some brilliant contributions, but when the topic is Millennials getting dragged, Gen X doesn't get mentioned because there's no meaningful generational distinction between them and the Boomers. They've blended in with the very system we are critiquing. And if they're not mentioned there will literally always be a comment like this. Trust me, no one has forgotten you, Gen X. But despite all your rage you are still just a rat in a cage.

Well like I said you can start running servers right now for free with your desktop. Then your best bet is in my opinion going to be buying a NUC, Elitedesk, or another smaller form factor PC, this will save you on energy costs and noise, and flashing truenas to it (Or you can run everything you need to in Windows or Linux or containers if that's what you're comfortable with) and using either external hard drives or getting a hard drive array and using that to store everything. This is going to cost more than a Synology and takes a little setting up but it's infinitely expandable and will suit your needs whatever they become. And don't forget the 3-2-1 rule of backups. These rules are written in blood. And RAID is not a backup, I learned that one the hard way, myself.

All kids think anyone older than them is a boomer. Actual boomers think all kids are millennials. Millennials can't catch a fucking break at either end.

Yep I remember clearly the first time this happened to me with Splashtop Remote in like 2012. And more recently 4K video downloader. "4K video downloader is being deprecated, please upgrade to our new application, 4K video downloader" Literally only difference is my lifetime license is no longer good and I'd have to buy a subscription.

Well, too bad there are easier ways to download content and even if there wasn't you have made sure I will never get anywhere near your products ever again.

Totally fair. I'm actually in the process of building a dedicated Proxmox VM host / TrueNAS server to ease up on my little media server, but for a quiet and powerful yet economical little package these mini PCs are great for the task. After all this time the only modification I've had to make was adding a 2.5Gb compatible NIC.

You said it yourself.

Extra points if I could host my ebooks and music there and run a torrent client. Extra extra points if I could connect to it from outside my home network (and stream)

To start, if you're using it to torrent your media then you're going to want it running in the background because you need to seed your torrents. Aside from it being the right thing to do, keeping a good ratio is necessary to get into good private trackers. And torrents aren't great for music, at least not in my experience, so you'll probably want soulseek as well. That also requires sharing in the background. You could buy a seedbox and torrent through that, but if you were going to go that route you could just do everything you're trying to do through a seedbox instead of getting a NAS, and it wouldn't take long for the subscription costs to surpass the costs of self hosting.

So now you've got qbittorrent, soulseek, Plex, and Kavita or similar for ebooks. What else could you want over time? Do you want to host audiobooks, too? Comics/manga/magazines? Maybe you want to streamline and automate the downloading process. Maybe your mom can't stream her favorite show anymore so you decide to share your library with her. Maybe you want to be able to search and download anything from any device anywhere, and maybe you want your mom to be able to as well.

Why stop there. Maybe you want to self host your own file and picture cloud storage as well. Maybe Mom's, too. Maybe you want to start blocking ads on your network at a DNS level. Maybe you want your phone to use your home network even when you're out and about. The possibilities increase exponentially once you start getting into self hosting.

I don’t want to hear the fans

That being said I have a good number of the above tasks running on an HP elitedesk mini g9 and it stays pretty quiet. The spinning disks make noise though lol

Edit: After reading through the rest of the replies I understand your situation a bit more. I see you don't want to build something or run it on your current desktop. It's hard to tell you which way to go without knowing at least your current budget and storage expectations. Because you can get a Synology and it will work out of the box for your needs right now, as someone said, but, you will be throwing money away that could better go towards more storage or compute, and in the end you're limited to their walled garden. As someone else said, you'd be much better off with TrueNAS as your OS. It all depends how much time, energy and money you're willing to throw at the problem. That is to say, are you looking for a hobby or are you looking for a solution? In any case, installing Plex on your desktop is the easiest and most common first step. You can set up a small library and test it out, see how loud it gets and how much power it draws if that's your concern. You will be streaming media to your bed by bedtime. Learn how to use it, then when you figure out your next steps it is easy enough to migrate, or just start over with the wisdom you've gained along the way. And YouTube is a good enough resource for this. There's a variety of steb-by-step NAS builds. And though there are definitely guys on there that don't know what they're talking about, if you watch enough NAS building videos you'll catch on quick enough to the necessary components. Anyway hope that helps.

Meh. The internet is a large place. Block indiscriminately. There's no reason to have an uncomfortable interaction. OP doesn't owe a random stranger anything let alone an explanation.

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