They just have to ask Google and Meta to do it for them.

I would say you can protect yourself against that too. no need to store sensitive info on those silos. google is more complicated with how deep access those fuckers have to virtually all phones, but if you are slightly determined that can be solved too.

I agree on all other points

and how do you keep the vpn credentials secure?

wire tapping is one thing, seizing and/or searching phones is another. while both are bad obviously, you can usually protect yourself against wiretapping by using secure communication systems, which phone calls is not a part of

linux is coming! we are unstoppable*!

* well except if the EU bans operating systems without built in age verification

not manually, yeah, but bottles and such are still really useful. it shows how much good GUI tools help with usability for everyone

I don’t have experience with windows server, but that indeed sounds like these are dead. you could check them with some pendrive bootable live linux, whether it sees them, like gparted’s edition, in case windows just hides them because it blacklisted them or something

I don’t know, because haven’t been around long enough, but yeah possibly they started using the red pro type there

well, it depends. if they were dropped just because they are smr and were writing slowly, I think they are fine. but otherwise…

what array system do you use? some raid software, or zfs?

they were selling wd red (pro?) drives with smr tech, which is known to be disastrous for disk arrays because both traditional raid and zfs tends to throw them out. the reason for that is when you are filling it up, especially when you do it quickly, it won’t be able to process your writes after some time, and write operations will take a very long time, because the disk needs to rearrange its data before writing more. but raid solutions just see that the drive is not responding to the write command for a long time, and they think that’s because the drive is bad.

it was a few years ago, but it was a shitfest because they didn’t disclose it, and people were expecting that nas drives will work fine in their nas.

but then wd and their fake red nas drives with smr tech?

what else we have?

I often wonder if yours is an automated account, but did you read the comments?

because most of us know this is bullshit

it would be interesting to hear your opinion, @Pro@programming.dev, why did you think you want to post this here