A proper mea culpa from them could maybe have brought me back, but nope, let’s just quietly pretend we didn’t just try to fuck over all our users and hope no one notices. Complete lack of respect for their customers.

You forgot charging a small fortune for their e-waste boxes. I have the 1819+ and it's the only device I'll have ever bought from them. It was reasonably priced at the time.

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My recommendation, as someone who has basically no experience with NAS, and only just got into it earlier this year (so take it with a grain of salt); build it yourself.

If you don't care about power consumption you can pick up an old PC for close to nothing (assuming you don't already have one just sitting around, wink-wonk) chuck some disks in it and call it a day. If you do care about power consumption, you can look around for a cheapo board with a decent low-power CPU.

I have a small NAS running an Intel N100 chip. It has very low power draw and has barely affected my bill. I'm running Unraid right now, but initially I was just running a headless Debian 12 installation. If you go the fully manual route (as in not TrueNAS or Unraid) it'll take a little bit of manual labour, but nothing that can't be achieved as a fun weekend project, and once it's up and going you're gucci.

This prebuilt corpo crap doesn't really offer anything you can't achieve yourself, except maybe fancy spyware apps for your smartphone.

I’m remembering, I’ve wanted a NAS for ages to replace my WD Book backup drive.

The sad reality is any major corporation is capable of this, they need the profits to keep rising, even if they screw over their employees and customers in the process.

I would have created a brand of Certified "high reliability", or "durostore" or the like, with an extra year of warranty, and included coupons in the drive box, to make the price "only" about 10% more.

Make the customer believe they are getting a steal for "premium" drives.

Its so easy to give customers less, while having them believe they are getting more...

Look for a used Gen 8 HP microserver. 4 3.5 bays, replaceable cpus from celeron to some xeons. Upgradeable ram. An extra slim CD bay that can be reourposed for an SSD, power sippy, pretty nice looking, not super silent, but replaceable fans,

I really like mine, and it's running Xpenology, essentially Synology OS

The HDD restriction was the nudge I needed to finally build my own NAS on Unraid. No regrets, and my DS923+ sold on eBay for nearly the same amount of money I paid for it 18 months ago.

Were they anywhere close to being a monopoly? There's a bunch of other brands selling the same thing. Anyway, I'm actually looking at buying a NAS and I was already explicitly excluding them because of that BS. I'll probably end up building my own, there's some nice cases out there.

This is what happens when csuite starts huffing marketing's farts without anyone from CX in the room to explain how this was all gonna end.

Starting to think that companies are all competing on a secretive Achievements Global Leaderboard.

Synology finally unlocked: "Hubris - only 99% of other large corporations have achieved this".

I have an old Synology NAS; which i was considering upgrading.

But...

1. They removed Video Station and HEVC support
2. Recently moved to remove all hardware transcoding
3. This stupid HD restriction
4. The decision to once again cheap out on hardware. My Synology is about as powerful as a first-gen Netbook. Newer models aren't much of a step-up. I'm surprised they opted to upgrade networking to 2.5gbe, probably pressure from competitors.
5. Edit: from a comment, the e-waste builds with non-upgradeable RAM

Yes the software is easy and reliable to use, but the fact that I only need to interact with it a few times a year, means it's no longer a selling point for me.

I hope people will remember that Synology readily changes their mind on this kind of thing, and continues to not buy their shitty hardware.

They thought they were enough of a monopoly in the consumer and small business market that people wouldn't have much choice. Management started believing their own marketing propaganda. They forgot that none of their product is unique.

I wonder what they thought would happen.

Good rule of thumb to have is that a company acquisition is always bad.

My guess: Nothing will change in the short-term but from the post it's clear they want Arduino chips to focus way more on business and way less on hobbyists and education - which is kinda what made Arduino so loved.

It's now american, which makes it worthless to me.

RIP Arduino

I really hope they don't do a Broadcom to it.

Read the history, SS was a paramilitary organization that was mostly involved in frontline combat, genocide, suppression of resistance, guarding concentration camps.

ICE is mostly involved in immigration enforcement, deportation, border security, customs fraud investigation.

So it is apples to oranges.

SS was also law enforcement.

I hope people don't forget these corporations' involvement in all this. When this is all over, they're going to pretend like they didn't have a choice. The fanboys are going to flock to their defense regardless, but normal people need to remember that Google and Apple are fascist collaborators, complicit in their crimes, and enemies of the constitution.

Now that is a good idea!

Both Google Maps and Apple Maps have means of marking speed traps and police prescence. Could be useful.