It's certainly coercive, if not an outright threat.
housepanther
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Ah, I thought as much because they're really power-efficient unlike something DIY.
Christofascism is really and truly a frightening prospect and it is growing at a quickened pace. I don't want to live in a society that's an analog to Talibani Afghanistan. I could imagine a nightmarish scenario where those refusing to go to church or bible study getting sentenced to a Christian re-education camp, or worse, executed by a religious/moral police force. It would be a very ironic version of hell and fire and brimstone to have to live in such a society.
What is your NAS? Is it something you built or a Synology?
Not only is a DIY UPS unreliable, but it could be potentially dangerous unless you are an electrician, an electrical engineer, or somebody that has extensive knowledge of both the engineering side and safety side. How many CyberPower units do you have? It's impressive that you have enough UPS power to run a NAS for that long.
I am not a great believer in long term happiness. I studied under a wise Zen master for two years that said the following:
Happiness and sadness are fleeting emotions. We are only expected to experience them for snapshots in time. A sense of peace and acceptance can, however, be achievable.
It's honestly not because you have to watch shows (more or less) on their schedule. The true advantage of streaming is that you can easily pause and rewind.
I use BTRFS simply because I run a rolling distro of Linux. For the average user, I don't think it is quite as necessary but the snapshots are nice. Of course, you could use timeshift to make snapshots as well.
I have a Dell OptiPlex 7050 acting as a router. But I don't do any port forwarding. Instead, I have an Oracle Always Free VM that is connected to my server via a WireGuard tunnel. The cloud VM acts as reverse proxy to all of the services that I host. The OptiPlex 7050 is running OpenBSD.
I'm no Nostradamus but I don't see this happening because the companies that make their revenue on storage would be crying foul. I don't see any successful pushes to make local storage illegal. Put it this way: I hope I'm right.
If the ice cream is cheap and shitty, neither flavor will be good. But honestly I like vanilla and chocolate together. They're nice complimentary flavors.
I could hold a press conference about how the world is flat and not round but that will not make it so. Trump is such a fucking moron. Even his Wharton professors thought so.