Does EU law prevent a countries government from ordering a social media account to be blocked?

That’s not newsworthy because it’s nothing new or unexpected. “US companies obey US law” isn’t newsworthy.

As I said in another comment, it’s not Microsoft’s position to be the judge of who is and isn’t fascist. It’s their position to stay in business, and you don’t do that by disobeying the government.

Do you think Microsoft should have sacrificed the entire company instead of follow the law?

You’re forgetting the fact that the government ordered MS to do this. Moving your data to the EU does nothing to prevent any EU government from ordering the same thing.

Then explain why one can successfully use and old synology to “mark” drives as “authentic synology” and move them into a newer DSM model to use them.

Because they have to have a way for legacy users to maintain functionality. Going forward though, new drives in new devices are handled differently. It’s basically a quality control type thing - they’re providing the support and warranty for them, so they’re only “guaranteeing” that their checks work on their drives. That makes sense. They don’t want to be on the hook for saying that a drive that isn’t theirs was perfectly healthy and then it drops dead an hour later and you lose all your data.

As explained ad nauseum on various yt channels, having a hw compatibility list makes sense for users likely to buy support, like business users.

Again though, the disks still work. The compatibility lists simply tell you if they are officially supported and will get certain features.

But add on top of it that there is no functional hardware difference between certified and non-certified, and it becomes pretty clear that Synology is to be avoided.

But add on top of it that there is no functional hardware difference between certified and non-certified, and it becomes pretty clear that Synology is to be avoided.

Avoiding them because of missing a few proprietary synology disk health checks is such a strange thing to do lol. You won’t get synologys disk health checks if you were to make your own server, so why is not having them on a synology a deal breaker?

Did you not get that job because you failed a drug test though? I’m going to assume no.

If you get fired from a job that a recruiter got you because you failed a drug test, you’ll be blacklisted by not only that recruiter but most other recruiters in the area. Source: few good friends who are recruiters for prominent recruitment firms, they tell me stories.

Would I interview to a job where I know I wouldn’t get the job if they drug test before hiring, or would be fired because they would drug test me after hiring me? No, because that would be a waste of time.

Also don’t take drugs and then drive for a job please.

I was about to give a genuine reply, then I read your second sentence and now I realize there’s no point. Straight to the tired old garbage “boot licker” insults. Have fun.

So not Microsofts fault then :). Universities should not be using employee licenses for students.

Synology’s software is awful. Simply controlling NFS shares is an exercise in insanity, and don’t get me started on ACLs.

Strange, I’ve had no issue controlling NFS shares or ACLs. Have set up 4 Synology NAS’s, with shares out the wahzoo. No problems. User error maybe?

Further, synology is a real bastard company currently trying to enshittify hardware (disk) upgrades, among other terrible practices:

That disk upgrade thing was a mountain out of a molehill. All they are doing is reserving some of their disk health features for synology branded disks because they’re the only ones they can verify meet their standards for their software.

Actually not in this particular case, the university had MS365 Business and gave us accounts in order for us to use the service.

Sounds like this university was an absolute shitshow then.

What is? M365 Business? M365 Family or Personal? Office suite outright purchase?

60TB of my own hosted cloud.

2TB Google

2TB Microsoft

2TB Apple

Unlimited IDrive for mobile photos/videos backup.

Synology NAS’s are amazing, can’t recommend them enough. Their software is what makes them so good.

You can run Plex server on them, can run docker containers for all your *arr services and even a container with a VPN for torrentin (all depends on the model obviously).

That’s fine to want, but you’re not entitled to it and never should be.

The university having M365 and the students having M365 are not the same thing. Students don’t subscribe to M365 Business because they need word or excel. Students would subscribe to M365 Family or Personal, or just buy office outright. Students get a huge discount too.

Completely disagree, and I have tens of gigs of FLAC music to go with my 10s of gigs of MP3.

Somehow I don’t think any charities with less than 10 employees were doing that, so nothing changes.

You said this too:

So for now I’d just be happy if they used LibreOffice instead of MS365

As I said, LibreOffice can’t be used instead of MS365 unless you want to lose 95% of the features of 365.