The minute I found out this was created by DHH and came preloaded with a ChatGPT link I knew it would be hot garbage. Give me an opinionated distro from someone who has a clue like John Carmack and I'll be interested, not the madman who dreamed up Ruby on Rails (or really anything by anyone connected in any way to a train wreck like Ruby). It doesn't surprise me in the least to find out Omarchy is a pile of fragile kludges and poorly thought out decisions.

DNS over HTTP will solve all our problems!

/s

I can't tell if that site is dynamic or not. I may never be able to tell.

It's always either DNS or IAM in us-east-1. You would think they would find a way to avoid those bottlenecks.

Much of my experience before I left and from what I’ve heard isn’t that Amazon as a whole is losing engineers. They’re losing them from critical services.

Some of those “foundational services” can have some teams that have really brutal on call and ops load. They get to a point where it’s so bad you can’t fix it because you’re constantly in a cycle of spending so much time keeping the lights on that you can’t automate anything (and for those teams leadership will never hear of decreasing work load). And you constantly have a churn of people so you need to spend time training the new guys on top of keeping the lights on.

Then the team fails and directors fold the responsibilities onto a new team and the cycle starts again.

And that’s where the brain drain hits the hardest.

It also doesn’t help that there’s a massive amount of red tape you need to clear to build anything. It’s easier in AWS than retail but it’s still an awful amount compared to other places.

This is The Register, a respected journalistic outlet. As a result, I know that if I publish this piece as it stands now, an AWS PR flak will appear as if by magic, waving their hands, insisting that "there is no talent exodus at AWS," a la Baghdad Bob.

🤣 I love reading The Register for these

Here's to hoping the next big "oh shit, everything is down" happens this year. Maybe another CrowdStrike in december - if it's not big enough, it won't beat the inertia of "well, I'm sure it was an isolated incident"

At AWS's scale, all of their issues are complex; this isn't going to be a simple issue that someone should have caught, just because they've already hit similar issues years ago and ironed out the kinks in their resilience story.

Imagine if it was a coffee spill or a bad git push to production servers.

Enterprise tribal knowledge is vital. It’s intangible and not on anybody’s scorecard, but I’m certain this outage was related to layoffs or quiet firings (RTO).

Ohmygod it was DNS

The most expensive Mac book pro is 7069$. Just take every spec to the max on this page. That should put it in the top 10.

And Tuxedo Computers has a Linux laptop worth 6538€

Edit: that Mac book pro I shared is actually the 14inch version. Take 16 inches and it's now 7349$

Hey, I'm glad you found it helpful. I run a lot on my N100.

• A DNS hole for privacy and ad blocking
• Audiobookshelf for all my audiobooks, because screw Amazon and Audible
• Copyparty for simple file management/transfer, as I don't need a full office suite like Nextcloud
• Jellyfin for my films/series
• Linkding for managing bookmarks
• Navidrome for my music library

As well as some extra services mostly for utility reasons, a reverse proxy, some headless game servers, etc. The applications don't all do things at the same time, e.g. Jellyfin isn't sitting and transcoding 100% of the time, so the only time it's really loaded down is when a lot of people connect to a game server.

My only advice would be to maybe check the price/performance difference between the N100 and the N150. I was initially going for the N150 as well, but found that paying double for the marginal performance difference of the N150 just wasn't worth it for me. I spent the savings on more storage instead.

Just wanted to say thanks for this, I’ve gone down a whole rabbit hole of NAS devices and I think I can cover my needs and my whole family with N.2 storage. Something along the lines of 12 TB should be enough so 4 *4tb (one redundant) may be the best option and I’m a stickler for power consumption, so a little N150 can probably run everything for less than 20w.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them. They did it once, they'll do it (or worse) again when they think they can get away with it.

Lol

I bought a Synology after I moved to Germany in a moment of weakness where I wanted a NAS but was dealing with immigrating and wanted something easy.

I wouldn't say I regret it because it worked out of the box and now I self host a bit. But my next NAS will be custom as I've been disappointed with the hardware and the company since.

I just started playing around with it. I have a DS220+ so it has more horsepower than your ‘16, however a good plugin I found was “disable transcoding” it’ll basically send the stream raw to a device and leave it to the device to deal with. As such it flies on that hardware.

To be fair, neither runs well on my DS916+. I use the NAS for storage and have a laptop next to it as a Linux server with Docker containers.

But what if, we could arbitrary limit users to buying our drives exclusively and disguise it as their own security?

Hohoho, delightfully devilish, Synology.

So many companies are looking for ways to limit their customers from doing what they were doing and making them pay to "upgrade" back to it, it's absurd.

I think it will be a custom build next time. I'll still use the old one just for backing up photos from my phone.

Do want something that's quiet and sips power when idle, but can easily transcode any content when needed.

I still wouldn’t. If a company flip flops so readily I wouldn’t want to deal with them.

True. When I first started experimenting with the NAS to stream home media, Video Station worked fine. And I could also access content outside of the home network without messing about. Obviously Jellyfin, Emby, Plex are better.

I made the mistake of buying one where the ram couldn't be upgraded. 2GB is a joke. Had to send it back.

Yup. Too late.

The value proposition point is something that’s been sorely missing from companies lately. In a true testament to “late stage capitalism”, a lot are trying to jump just straight to capture and maximum extraction.

How many people used Video Station instead of Jellyfin in a container?