Lka1988 @ lka1988 @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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That's all a NAS has ever been, just a PC that specializes in storage. "NAS" isn't a specific product, either - it's whatever hardware you set up to function as such. My own NAS is a 2014 Mac mini running OMV (Debian 12 based) with a 4-bay locking drive dock attached to it. Works great.

I took images of my gaming PC drives (500GB, 2TB) onto a 4TB spinner, then shoved that spinner into my NAS's dock. With 2 minutes of point and click configuration, I can access those images from my gaming PC's new Linux install over the network to copy whatever data I might need. Easy peasy. No Synology needed for that.

Short term profits reign king once again

Gotta make the imaginary money line go up somehow

Airbnb was started to offer up your free space to someone for a night for a bit of cash, and that was it. Then the morons found out and bought whole ass houses specifically to rent out on Airbnb.

People ruin everything.

Oh yeah, for sure. There's no reason for that partition to be wiped out though.

My SO has had several and really liked them until they broke or got lost (the phones' quality really aren't to blame here). I've offered the Sony Xperia 10 VI to my dad last Christmas and it doesn't come with much bloat at all, I would call it good.

Sony Xperia phones are great, until you unlock the bootloader and it wipes the camera software, leaving you with a camera that takes worse pics than a literal potato.

But if you want a completely bloat-free phone, you can't beat Google Pixel flashed with GrapheneOS.

This is my plan for my P9PXL. I'm weaning myself off of Google's services, but I need to find something comparable to Keep. I use Keep for a lot of random notes and ideas, and so far nothing I've found comes close (Nextcloud Notes included).

I'm genuinely curious: what about it is "too hard"?

Keepass2Android. However, it doesn't always play nice, complaining about the database being trashed and will only work from the internal cache. That's when I have to reload the database from storage.

Yeah, so I've heard 😕

I use SMS Backup/Restore, it saved my ass during my divorce.

I'd love a FOSS version that can handle RCS...

Y is a 3 wagon

X is an S wagon

Nobody cares though, because fuck Tesla and fuck Elon and I hope they both burn

My mistake. The concept of "doing taxes" is usually US-specific, I don't really hear about that kind of thing from users in other, more civilized countries.

Genuinely curious though... Why use a VM for taxes?

Thanks for the new rabbit hole 😂

You do your taxes on a VM? FreetaxUSA works just fine on Linux.

I mean, I pirated the Windows 10 installation on my gaming PC. Massgrave scripts helped out though, so there's that.

That said, I'm wiping Windows soon and installing LMDE. It's the last Windows PC in my house (minus W11 work laptop - that doesn't count though).

Remember, there's absolutely nothing wrong with buying a used 7th gen Intel PC and filling that with [insert drive of choice]. An i7-7700T is still more powerful than even the newer Synology units.

So you built your own NAS, then. NAS is just an acronym, "Network Attached Storage". Not a singular line of products.

That said - I also feel the same way about Synology and the other "all-in-one NAS" brands. Expensive for what they are, which is essentially an incredibly cheap PC with a built in toaster. I built my NAS out of a 2014 Mac Mini (running OMV) and a Sabrent USB-C 4-bay drive dock, and even full of WD Reds, that entire rig is literally half the price of a DS920+. And more powerful.

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That's true, but the root method is open source:

https://github.com/throwaway96/faultmanager-autoroot

That said, if it does cause issues, there's nothing saying I can't just block it at my router.

I rooted my 65" LG TV, and put a pi-hole in front of it.