Reading Fallen Dragon now, enjoying it so far.

Stainless steel rat is next in line to read based on recs ITT.

I’ll have a look at Larry Niven. Cheers.

Damn, I’ve got my wife at least using it on our Shield for the TV when putting stuff on for the kids.

The shitty part is taking features people already had access to and locking them away all while spying on you.

No way, plex is completely enshitified.

Nothing wrong with that on ad block. Intro them to pipepipe if they watch it mostly on mobile.

The backup is a self hosted splunk.

Dozzle, log forge is a new one I’ve seen but not tried.

I have two large (8 Bay) Synology NAS. They backup certain data between each other and replicate internally and push to Back blaze. $6/mo.

I dunno how fast they chop your access because the centre adds/removes you, hopefully you remember your credentials.

Just a warning, I found a bug while clicking an element in the docker container but the script runs in venv just fine.

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

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.

Mint or Ubuntu is like Windows but better.

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.