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He didn't make the point clear, but the recent OSes are just trying to be Synology DSM copycats.

Server Part Deals is really good since they test the drives themselves. But even the used drives are on the verge of being unaffordable now. They increased the price of their 28TB …

If I have CPU power at my disposal, why should I waste it? I love the fact that my NAS can serve my other needs too.

Expensive drives have become such a pain. Maybe five years from now, if supply meets demand, I just wish I can afford a 1PB all-flash NAS. I really don't want to hear noise and I w…

India is now going after domains too: https://www.reuters.com/world/worlds-biggest-domain-seller-f... To imagine that US MNCs readily obey these orders. There was a time when Gmail…

India.

Guy was doing Nazi salutes at Trump's inauguration. If he wanted support from normal people, he should have remained within normal political norms, not do Nazi salutes. I don't thi…

Let's go a bit back and try to understand what happened with Buddhists of India. A whole religion exterminated from such a vast land.

Look at the IIT Bombay photo, in the background is the colonial era copy of Lady Britannia - "Bharat Mata". The fact article is hosted on Open Magazine, I was already a bit suspect…

Soviet books were a boon to the world. I thank Soviet scientists. https://valeman.medium.com/the-men-who-translated-the-machin...

Went on Instagram last week for 2-3 days, and found out an annoying pattern where just the beginning 1s or so of a video ad is loud and then the volume is normal. Doesn't occur on …

Ruckus APs also use OpenWRT. Saw it in a recent update that they pushed to Unleashed software.

Yes. These units now come with dedicated NVMe slots and they don't accept third party drives.

Another problem is locked hardware. Newest Synology hardware has lifted the HDD locks but still doesn't allow third party SSD and RAM. Mac Mini storage upgrade is a DIY solution, w…

I hate this. Archive.today provides a useful service for people like us in developing countries; without archive.today we would not even have luxury to read and document a lot of s…

Repairability, upgradability and standards compliance needs to be minimum in consumer products. No to proprietary connectors. No soldered SSD or RAM. For home use, allow relaxed li…

lol what even is this article. Embedding a chip into sari so that someone from New York can get whole "biography" of sari, and hence this blockchain adaptation will mitigate econom…

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Unfortunately, doesn't mean much. Per capita wise it's among the lowest. GDP of downtown Vancouver surpasses that of richest state of India.

Tahoe has been giving spinning wheel on Firefox browser since updating it. You switch from spotlight to Firefox, there's the wheel; leave computer alone for sometime and comeback t…

"Yellen’s concerns start with the idea that capitalism depends on the consistent application of the law — regardless of individuals’ or businesses’ wealth or political connections.…

After this change, accounts created in US will be sought after. Operate them through a US VPN. Voracious appetite for consuming content will be filled by outsiders. US effs up the …

Why couldn't you get any other news media than the HindustanTimes.com; a plainly unhealthy Indian news blog to be consumed. We Indians have to suffer it because we have few options…

iPhone screenshot and cropping doesn't work. I take a lot of full page screenshots and need to crop them, but sometimes the button is visible and sometimes it isn't. Saving the pag…

Space and energy costs are a factor for me too. My current Mac Mini SMB is really good but DAS consumes lot of power. Ideally, I would really love Mikrotik's RB5009UPr+S+IN next it…