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submitted 6 months ago by femboi@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

Nice to see a tech company actually getting punished for their anti-consumer policies.

I first heard about this update from Cory Doctorow's newsletter: https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/10/synology/#how-about-nah

The post about the original policy: https://hexbear.net/post/4619813

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[-] peeonyou@hexbear.net 16 points 6 months ago

i hadn't heard about this before. what a bunch of maroons. i can't believe they thought this was going to fly.

[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 12 points 6 months ago

Their enclosures are dogshit too. You can roll your own for like half the price if you have spare components laying around or a decent local computer thrift store. It'll be like 10x better to because you can put actual real NAS software on there, or just run a virtualization server.

Only benefit for these style appliances is that they usually come with 2.5Gig + network adapters, but a smaller ATX build could just get a PCIE card that does 10 and that benefit is gone.

[-] WagesOf@hexbear.net 5 points 6 months ago

USB3.0 can do a 2.5g eth card pretty easily.

[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago

Always feel dirty using USB for stuff that isn't basic I/O lol. Plus if I'm building my own I'll probably wanna go 10 gig because why not

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