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Even if you don’t pay for updates you can still run the software perpetually, you just don’t get updates

Oh it’s not worth it to switch, unraid licenses are forever (unless they really fuck people over) and changing at this point would mean destroying your data

Unraid is fine and if you use it no judgement but truenas will cost you $0, is open source, and the kubernetes or docker implementation (depending on core vs scale) is fairly similar with community apps as well plus vms and such if you go with scale. Unraid is simpler because you don’t need to fuck with zfs by default but now that zfs expansion is a thing it’s really a no brainer to go with zfs for the majority of self hosting scenarios imo

or go with proxmox, or just Debian or whatever but those have a much higher learning curve

The inherent issue is that they do not decouple security updates and bug fixes from feature updates

I paid $450 for professional software suite x 2012. I expect it to work for quite some time based on that extreme price. 2 patches come out during the year 2012 that fix some bugs, but not all.

Software suite x 2013 comes out. A cool new feature is added, maybe 2 or 3. It’s also the most stable version yet! Fixing even more bugs. (More bugs are introduced with the new features but whatever). $500 or $129 upgrade

I don’t want the new features. I just want the bug fixes. I don’t have that option.

Unraid is one of the few pieces of software I’ve seen with this option. They initially did a perpetual license for years, several levels up to $129. They found that didn’t cover costs. Now they have a model where you purchase a license and keep that but updates are subscription based. Your license lasts one year but you can run the software in perpetuity. You can download updates for that year and you can extend the license for $36 to download updates for an additional year.

In addition to that critical security updates are free to download even if your license is expired and are produced until your version hits end of life, which is when 2 major revisions come after (e.g. they’re on 7.1.0 now, that will be EOL as of version 7.3.0). If you truly want updates in perpetuity they still offer that as well, it just costs almost 2x as much now ($249).

That said if you want a NAS go with free software. I won’t judge you if you use unraid, it’s easy to use, but there are non proprietary and FOSS options where licensing isn’t an issue at all for home use (or at all)

“Firefox is the only major browser not backed by a billionaire”

This is a misleading statement. 86% of Mozilla’s funding is from google. Modern web browsers are a fucked landscape designed to perpetuate googles dominance

I did say myself included tbf

It’s financially motivated which is frustrating for some people and much less polished than Duolingo from a ui perspective but at least for Japanese (the only language I practice) the courses make much more sense and are more challenging

The only advantage Duolingo has over it really is the ability to practice stroke order for kanji/hiragana/katakana but if you’re not learning Chinese/japanese that’s not really an issue. Lingodeer will still teach you the characters, just not how to write them. And lingodeer integrates writing with the characters far earlier, basically at lesson 1, which is challenging but helpful. Vs Duolingo which makes this entirely optional so you can complete the entire course writing in “romaji”/latin script for Japanese (eg “konnichiwa” instead of こんにちは. And even if you use hiragana you can use that entirely and never use kanji (eg わたし instead of 私 for watashi)

It’s because Duolingo is overly focused on gameification. They artificially make things easier so you progress at all costs even if that means you are overall forming worse habits and learning less. On one hand this is more likely to keep you motivated, on the other it’s more likely to sell subscriptions, keep engagement in the app up, and sell iap items to manipulate the iap system. Then they can portray it as altruistic (“we are keeping you motivated”) when it’s really compromising your education to raise profitability. Yuck

Of course, myself included, just check my post history for veeeerrrry clear examples

But sometimes we need to strive for clear communication. Maybe I’m a hypocrite but I think there is a need for both the wordy explanation for those that want to investigate the why and the succinct delivery for those that aren’t in a space where they are able or willing to dive into a 1-3 page diatribe on rationale

Lingodeer if you want a product that actually exists

it’s super fun to talk to a “fiscal conservative” or “neoliberal” that’s real pissed off about the people scalping ps5s or concert tickets or whatever

“They buy up all the supply with unfair advantages like bots and using discord channels to get restock alerts before anyone else can know! Then they drive up the price so high no one can afford it!”

You can get them so close to having the epiphany that you just had but their dream of being a billionaire themselves one day causes so much cognitive dissonance that they will then defend elon musk. Or the neolib will defend all the poor very wealthy CEOs and executives worth 10+ million dollars while secretly wanting to defend billionaires like bill gates because he has better optics, but they realize billionaires in general have bad optics at the moment right now so they shut up

Ultra wealthy people in general are the issue. Billionaires are the absolute worst of it but the single person with an 80 million dollar estate is the same problem just on a smaller scale. That still chokes a fairly large community of resources. Billionaires just do the same thing to an entire nation, or even the world to some degree.

All of that money is equity. Basically none of these dudes are liquid and the bits they have that are liquid are from cashing out stolen equity. It’s because we have this fucked up idea that because I start a company I then hold the bag in perpetuity and you get nothing because I say so. Even if I bring you on in the beginning and you help me build it up from nothing, even if you help me run it as it grows to an empire, even if you help keep the empire running each and every day. I pay you money, as little as possible, and ideally no benefits, and you get absolutely no share of the company that you are helping to build.

So here I sit in my ivory tower, a company valued at 1 million, 5 million, 100 billion, 3 trillion. Who do I share that equity with? People who will loan me money. No one who will actually do any real work to make the company move forward day to day. Those people sweating and bleeding get nothing. The people getting a chunk of the pie are the ones that can afford to buy in and they reap the rewards as a result: they don’t trade their physical health for money, they don’t get paid shit, and as the company grows they make more and more while they sit on their asses like the parasites they are, sucking away your wages and benefits. Your health insurance is worse this year? Or it doesn’t exist at all? Gotta cut costs to please the shareholders and investors to turn a “profit”

That’s why in terms of stock ownership the top 10% of Americans own 87% of American owned stocks and the bottom 90% own 13%. The bottom 50% own 1% and the top 1% own 50%. This excludes the portion of the market owned by foreign investors but that’s still tremendous - the top 1% own 23 trillion dollars worth of equity.

Forcibly take over amazon, Walmart, Google, apple, etc and nationalize them. Give the equity owned by retail investors to the workers. And not just the fancy coders and engineers that probably already had stock options, to the people hocking phones at mall kiosks and doing tech support. Then jail all billionaires for life for crimes against humanity and outlaw advertising and we might save humanity

I hate this line of thinking. “Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” is bullshit. There is a decent amount of literature that shows trauma exposure and ptsd make you less resilient. There is literally an evidence base that shows it is incorrect and yet ignorant assholes will repost it because it’s a cool quote for their dumbass social media feed

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0278584610002332 - trauma exposure in the absence of ptsd is associated with decreased hippocampus volume, which itself is associated with issues with memory processing and fear

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6315158/ - decreased volume of prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate in people with ptsd, associated with modulation of stress response

There are more too, amygdala differences and changes in connectivity between sections of the brain being notable ones

That said this is not a means to say that once you have trauma you are permanently broken. There is also evidence that interventions are effective if utilized

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/355083645_Neural_contributors_to_trauma_resilience_a_review_of_longitudinal_neuroimaging_studies - adaptive changes are possible after trauma that can modulate and bolster resilience. The interesting thing here is that this focuses on naturalistic intervention, eg the brains ability to fix itself, rather than something like CBT or medication

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36228389/ - link between cortical patterns in the prefrontal cortex and improvements noted in TF-CBT. Note that there are many “CBT” therapists out there that don’t actually practice CBT, they just utilize some aspects of it because they were taught it in grad school. TF-CBT specifically (trauma focused) is evidenced based and highly structured so if you’re going in and just chatting every week your therapist isn’t doing it right

Similar papers for things like paroxetine reversing the hippocampus volume loss seen in ptsd and other things

No intervention works for everyone of course and all interventions come with drawbacks but intervention is worth trying if you have experienced trauma (I am biased obviously, so keep that in mind).

A lot of words to say “your feelings are valid but that does not mean the resultant behavior is always justified or acceptable”

I don’t mean to be rude but in our increasingly scatterbrained culture I think messages like this need to be delivered as efficiently as possible