Bingo.

And even then it’s difficult to find shit, like for instance, finding the working directory for crontab when run as root. This answer on Stack Exchange is the embodiment of my second example in the other comment. The answers go into great detail, yet still don’t answer the question in any reasonable capacity for a “standard user” like myself.

Man pages tend to assume a lot and overload the user with information.

Forums are full of “duh, haven’t you read the man pages, idiot?” kinds of people.

Web searches are full of AI/garbage (same thing) articles that focus on distros/programs that are either horrendously inaccurate, out of date, or simply don’t exist anymore.

Therefore, I utilize the tldr man pages, and use extremely specific terms for web searches.

Idk, it was horrendously insecure, would freeze a lot, and missing creature comforts like window tiling.

It was significantly more secure than it’s DOS-based predecessor of the time, Windows ME (that’s a whole other rabbit hole; if you wanna talk insecure and buggy as fuck - look no further). That’s what people don’t realize, they look at the past through a modern lens. You gotta look at it from the time it was released. There’s a reason mainstream consumer-focused Windows editions dropped DOS and moved to the NT kernel. XP was the first real consuner version of Windows based on XP.

If they kept refining Win7 it would’ve been great.

They did, it was called “Windows 8” and Nobody liked it.

Not even GNU - just Linux.

Yeah yeah, something something GNU/Linux blah blah copypasta…

When did I ever say I was entitled to it?

Furthermore, why are you so eager to lick corporate boot over this? Just accept the fact that corps are fucking consumers over by trying to redefine terms like “purchase” and “own” to mean something other than their existing widely-accepted definitions.

If I buy an expensive piece of hardware, I do expect to be able to own it and install what I goddamn well please, corporate approval be damned. That’s why I buy Pixels and standard PC hardware, because I can unlock the bootloader/disable secure boot and install what I goddamn well please. Can’t do that with any iPhone, and rarely a Mac, because it goes against what Daddy Apple hath decreed.

Additionally, it is also acceptable to acknowledge the former and simultaneously acknowledge that Epic is a shitty company. They aren’t mutually exclusive.

We’ve got multiple tools still on Windows 2000, happily running production. They’re on an airgapped network though, so no issues.

You guys need to get this idea out of your head that the makers of the device that you bought need to provide ways for you to do what you want with it. They don’t, and any attempt to force them to write software to do so should be denied.

You can do whatever the hell you like with your hardware. Take it apart, take it fishing, try and hack it, have sex with it - whatever you want! But the device makers aren’t responsible for giving you ways to hack it.

You’re looking at this the wrong way.

We do not expect Apple/Google/Samsung/etc to give us tools to do whatever we want. Hell, Google already ships adb that explicitly allows unlocking the bootloader on at least Pixel devices.

What we do want is for companies to stop intentionally preventing it with arbitrary restrictions that amount to nothing more than “because we said so”.

Why is anybody licking big corporate boot in the first place? How does that benefit you?

I have a genuine question:

How does arguing in support of arguably bad business practices in general benefit you?

So can I self-host it, or are you just drive-by advertising in a vaguely-related forum?

I run it dead periodically so I can get a proper analysis on its overall health.

To the obsessed morons who refuse to go outside of 80%/20%: No, this doesn’t impact it in any meaningful way

Revanced is basically the same thing. Just less shitty.

It’s worth noting that Dodge (yes, that Dodge) were the ones who took Ford to court over it. If you want the reason why shareholders come first, blame Dodge.

Same here. I made them refund me and then delete my account. It was a small amount, but I was pissed enough that I wanted them to work for it.

Edit: the soc that they are using is worse than the feature phone soc in my old Nokia from 2008. What the actual fuck.

Oh god. They invented a TV with a phone built in.

“Oh no, an issue that will only affect an extremely narrow spread of people who would already be aware of it, therefore F-Droid bad”

If you’re that concerned about being surveilled, you already have bigger issues.

Except, Android users can still install apps outside the Play Store.

I am assuming each drive shows up as an independent drive that you can raid up however you want in software?

Yeah, each drive is shown as if they were individually attached the machine. RAID how you want (or don’t). I’ve got three 4TB drives in an 8TB RAID5, one 4TB that contains data from my gaming PC that I’m working on moving to the RAID, and then a separate 8TB external drive that everything on the RAID array is rsynced to for backup (not ideal but it’s something).

Man I was looking for something like this, but at the time I was building my NAS, I couldn’t find something similar so I just decided to build a whole new machine with enough space to contain the drives themselves. Had I known, I might have gone with this and a NUC or something.

I’m actually going the other way and building a proper server out of an ancient HP Proliant ML110 G2 that my dad gave me. Shockingly, it’s fully ATX compatible and has 8+ drive bays. I’m just reusing the case though and stuffing it with more modern components; it was originally equipped with a Pentium 4 😂 I’m not a fan of the single USB connection for all that data.

How’s the performance?

Sufficient I suppose. Limited by the single USB 3 connection. The Mac mini isn’t stressed at all, but the RJ45 connector has some fucky Apple weirdness about it that causes it to go to sleep periodically. There’s a workaround for it that I applied a while ago, but it still drops out occasionally. But, that’s an Apple-specific problem, not the enclosure. The enclosure works fine.

Drive bay I’m using is a Sabrent DS-SC4B, connected via USB3. I’m currently collecting parts for an actual tower build based on a G4560T.