I’ve been in the nerdy tech space for decades now and I will never understand how these people expect things like Linux to take charge while they’re also being the most gatekeepy and arrogant people. Sure, I’d love folks to try it out, but I’m not going to demonize them either for not. I also have done tech support and there are the people where I just say “Nope, get a mac” because otherwise I will be the person that they go and demand free support from every week.

There’s passion, but then there’s a line that is too often crossed that goes into ego and selfishness, and I think Lemmy just breeds that.

I think it matters community to community - but I don’t disagree with you. Personally, I suggest curating a list of communities that you like and subscribing to them. It’s been much more pleasant having that than the barrage of All.

I think he’s one of those “protesting is great as long as it doesn’t affect anyone”, aka out of sight out of mind protesting.

I used to be like that until I realized that it would accomplish nothing. Their reasoning is that “you aren’t winning any friends” which you aren’t, but you are on every news channel with your message up there vs just being people in a park

I think that’s why it becomes so noticeable - it’s usually so calm and chill that when someone comes in to stir the pot it’s so obvious

This has been in the Ask communities unfortunately

That’s true in most places, but until now it’s been relatively quiet I’m here on the fediverse

Interesting, I haven’t noticed this but I’ll keep an eye out on accounts

Unsure personally, but I’m keeping an eye on it personally

They always first focus on consuming the free content vs giving any back

What, you mean like a game you only buy once and just play online for free after that? Why would anyone want that?

Yes holy shit Jesus fuck yes I know this. Read again the second part where I said that there’s no way to do this in reality.

Thank you for getting what I was trying to say. Spot on, I don’t think the idea is wrong. It would be nice if there was a test to say “hey are you able to vote on these topics, have you researched, are you voting with your brain or with emotions?” - which is why I say the idea is fine. There isn’t though. There isn’t a single way to do that fairly or equitably.

Thank god the commenters immediately jumped down my throat to tell me what I already knew.

I won’t call out of or the drawer for bad idea. The idea is fine. There’s just zero ways to ever implement it. It’s nice to dream though

Try it out, just make sure their software isn’t so locked down that there’s no way to send files in remotely

Yeah honestly I really can’t put my finger on it I like this guy or not.

oh yeah… they’re “white labeling” their own brand of drives and if you use anything else it’ll bitch at you. I think for now it still lets you, but their OS definitely shows you’re not using a “proper” drive. May want to keep an eye on that.

I think you already know, AIOs are the go-to, just make sure you can connect in. I’ve done this with Synology, works fine, I used sftp to sync things. If you want cheaper you can look into a standard linux host and mergerfs/snapraid, but it’s going to be a much higher learning curve, and a much higher risk of failure. If you’re just getting up and started don’t overthink it. It’s good to plan for tomorrow, but think about how much data everyone has, and how much you’ll use today, and then double that. That’ll be a good baseline.

If you’re US based, a trick, buy the WD Elements drives from Best Buy. They go on sale regularly pretty much whenever there is a holiday sale and “shuck” them (plenty of videos on Youtube for how to do this). You’ll save probably double the cost on drives.

From my point of view, you have two separate things.

First, you have a “business”/user case, you need a way for people to sync data with you. For this, it’s a solved problem. Use Nextcloud/Owncloud/something with an app and a decent user experience for this. Whatever you like. On your primary “home” location, set this up, and have people start syncing data to you.

Second is the underlying storage. For this, again it’s up to you, but personally I’d have a large NAS at home (encrypted), which is sync’d either in realtime or nightly (using something like cron/rclone) to the other locations (also encrypted, so not even they can see it).

Their portal to this data storage is the nice user experience like Nextcloud. They don’t have to worry about how data is synced or managed. Nextcloud also supports quotas so you can specify how much they all get (so you don’t have to deal with partitioning).

This approach will be much less headache for you. I think I understand what you’re asking, where your original thought was just a dump of storage that is separate, but I think this is a better approach - both in terms of your sanity maintaining it and also their own usability.

And by not offending anyone, they instead bore everyone with their flat dialogue

You can really tell Ubisoft sends all dialogue through multiple committees before approving it.