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Cake day: February 12th, 2025

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  • Except we aren’t talking about the law. We are talking about corporations that sell you something and then retain control over it.

    You have no say in the process, you have no representation. These are not rules that we as a society have determined to be in the best interests of all of us. These are unilateral decisions placed upon us. You have no recourse if you disagree other than don’t use the thing.

    Guns don’t prevent you from doing anything. You still have the capability to do whatever you want with the thing. However, if you use it in a manner than harms someone else, in a way that we as a society have proposed, voted, and created laws prohibiting, then you deal with the consequences. But that is very different from having something in the gun that prevents it from taking ammo from another manufacturer. Or making it unable to shoot unless you pay a monthly fee.



  • At this point, I’d say build your own if you are wanting anything more than basic file sharing.

    Lots of resources out there and even NAS style cases to make it basically the same as any off the shelf NAS.

    Xenology has been mentioned here, but I haven’t used it

    FreeNAS is good, but I haven’t used it in years.

    OpenMediaVault is supposed to be good, but again I haven’t used it.

    Unraid is good and has super easy support for docker. I primarily use this because of its ability to use different disk sizes for the array and does what is the equivalent of software RAID. It’s not the fastest thing on the market, but for my use case (primarily Plex/Jellyfin) I don’t need the fastest reads or writes. It supports hardware passthrough for VMs or to docker containers so they can take advantage of hardware for acceleration. It also runs off a flash stick, so I don’t waste any disks on the OS.


  • Mine is primarily a 4u server, in a rack. That’s screwed to the wall (for added stability).

    They’d need a couple guys to unrack it. It’s in the garage I rarely ever lock, behind the cars which are more valuable and easier to steal. Behind the much more valuable tools.

    Garage does get warm in the summer and cold enough in the winter the fans do funny things.

    Anything important gets replicated to another location as well as backed up to a cloud bucket. So if it got stolen it would suck, but not the end of the world.