Okay what the hell is "fw it"
I fear that calling them out so obviously it will just push them to target vpns next.
Try it out, just make sure their software isn't so locked down that there's no way to send files in remotely
Yeah honestly I really can't put my finger on it I like this guy or not.
Welcome to silicon valley!
oh yeah.... they're "white labeling" their own brand of drives and if you use anything else it'll bitch at you. I think for now it still lets you, but their OS definitely shows you're not using a "proper" drive. May want to keep an eye on that.
I think you already know, AIOs are the go-to, just make sure you can connect in. I've done this with Synology, works fine, I used sftp to sync things. If you want cheaper you can look into a standard linux host and mergerfs/snapraid, but it's going to be a much higher learning curve, and a much higher risk of failure. If you're just getting up and started don't overthink it. It's good to plan for tomorrow, but think about how much data everyone has, and how much you'll use today, and then double that. That'll be a good baseline.
If you're US based, a trick, buy the WD Elements drives from Best Buy. They go on sale regularly pretty much whenever there is a holiday sale and "shuck" them (plenty of videos on Youtube for how to do this). You'll save probably double the cost on drives.
What, parents actually parenting and monitoring what their children do? Talking with them about being online?
Granted I say this sarcastically and then mom and dad both fall for AI garbage on Facebook yet again so maybe I should rethink that they are even capable of having a discussion on critical thinking
From my point of view, you have two separate things.
First, you have a "business"/user case, you need a way for people to sync data with you. For this, it's a solved problem. Use Nextcloud/Owncloud/something with an app and a decent user experience for this. Whatever you like. On your primary "home" location, set this up, and have people start syncing data to you.
Second is the underlying storage. For this, again it's up to you, but personally I'd have a large NAS at home (encrypted), which is sync'd either in realtime or nightly (using something like cron/rclone) to the other locations (also encrypted, so not even they can see it).
Their portal to this data storage is the nice user experience like Nextcloud. They don't have to worry about how data is synced or managed. Nextcloud also supports quotas so you can specify how much they all get (so you don't have to deal with partitioning).
This approach will be much less headache for you. I think I understand what you're asking, where your original thought was just a dump of storage that is separate, but I think this is a better approach - both in terms of your sanity maintaining it and also their own usability.
You can really tell Ubisoft sends all dialogue through multiple committees before approving it.
Seconded, I'm guessing OP is having slight datetime problems too. Open it up, new battery, like new. Someone probably gave it away because they didn't know what it meant
Finance developers know the hell that is money and precision. I've worked fintech for years and god, so many gotchas.
I got a tech screen for a company that was brilliant. The question was "take these transactions (from a file) and add them to a database.
To any decent engineer they would see that and say "sure thing! Easy let's do it!"
To me, a senior fintech engineer though I was like "oh dear God, let's see if we can even get a quarter of this done"
(For those who have not gone through the trial by fire that is handling money in professional code, you've been warned, I'll leave just the few off the top of my head in spoilers below.)
gotchas from that problem
Money is not easy friends