Mine is the F4-210.

I probably could, but frankly it’s not worth the effort when my pi is already set up the way I like, and is more powerful. I don’t see the advantage of trying to hack the nas into shape when its hardware is atrocious anyway.

It has 1GB of non-upgradeable ram and the CPU scores 131 on geekbench: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/20874021

My pi has 8GB of ram and scores 1018 on geekbench, and cost half as much (~£90-100 vs £189.99). https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/11626981 (so 7.7x, not quite 10x, but still an insane gap)

What do you find is the advantage of the nas if it’s outperformed by the cheaper pi?

I have one, but I feel pretty burned by them since the model I bought was immediately outdated because the next hardware version after mine was a new cpu arcitechure, and the new software updates don’t support the old architecture. I think they moved from arm to x86 or something like that. So I’m stuck with old software that’s no longer supported, only a year or two after I bought the up to date model.

And, yeah, as the other commenter noted, it does feel quite like you’re using knock-off software. Remoting into it doesn’t really fill me with confidence. Maybe it’s fine but it just looks/feels like the cheap and shitty version of something more reputable. And it’s not even running a proper version of linux that I could customise - it’s a stripped down version of arch that I can’t install anything on unless it’s on their official app store, which doens’t even work half the time, and when I do install the official version of plex/etc the cpu is so wimpy that it can’t even direct stream untranscoded video directly off the disk. My raspberrypi 5 is literally 10x (!!) faster than it in cpu benchmarks. You’re probably right that I could probably overwrite the os with something better, but then what’s the point in buying an expensive NAS when you could just buy a pi with much more power, community support, packages, etc, plus a dumb external usb enclosure for half the cost? Maybe the more recent ones with the updated cpu architecture are more powerful and have better apps, idk, but now I just use it as a dumb hard drive enclosure and do any smarts, such as plex or scripts I need to run, on my pi anyway.

So, I’m considering just moving all my NAS/plex data to an external drive attached to my pi.

why a bitly link 💀

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idk, a shower most days, plus a couple of flushes a day, plus a dishwasher run once every few days, plus a washer run probably once a week ish? Plus a couple of glasses of water a day and a bit of hand washing, idk? I didn’t think I was much different from average but apparently I’m quite water-conservative?

Because parliament agreed. There’s no uk constitution. Scotland’s government’s power is only what is given to it by the uk parliament. Parliament could easily have said no, and legally scotland would have no choice but to stay, but it was a politically good move to allow the vote because it wouldn’t look good if the uk forced scotland to stay against their will, and could cause instability.

In the Grey video he says there’s no legal way for Texas to leave other than by convincing the US to be ok with it - basically using politics to come to a mutual agreement. That’s what happened with scotland.

That’s not really how countries work. Parts of countries can’t (peacefully, legally) just leave. Manchester can’t decide it wants to be its own country separate from the uk, and nor can states.

Further:

LegalEagle - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dhvry6E0jA

CGP Grey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S92fTz_-kQE

£16/m; I live alone. Yorkshire

no.

“I had spelled it wrong” sounds like a hillbilly.

I wouldn’t say that. I’d say “I spelled it wrong”.

Being British, I obviously almost entirely use British spelling. However I’ll concede a couple of points in specific circumstances:

• spelt, and other past tenses which end in -t instead of -ed, are silly. I prefer spelled.
• Capitalising the word after a colon: Sometimes does feel right somehow, but sometimes doesn’t.

The Z’s are silly.

Losing the argument on “aluminum” and agreeing to call it aluminium but then calling it aluminum anyway, is silly.

Dropping the U’s from words such as “colour” - I get the simplification argument and I’d take or leave them, but I’m pro-U.

“Chat”?? :/

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Obligatory, since nobody else has linked it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg

That one Merriam-Webster video that did the rounds on this topic years ago seems to have been retracted. I don’t think “technically correct” is right, since it is never really used, but more “arguably could have been”. And, as was even stated in that video, if you say octopedes nobody will know what you’re on about. Except octopodes nuts.

you wouldn’t pay for it all up front yourself… you’d set up a business and find an investor to provide the money you’d need. It’s a pretty easy sell for an investor as it’s a predictable money printing machine.

My most hated interaction has been happening for years and years:

I say, “turn off the bedroom light”

It mishears me and thinks I said “turn off the bedroom lights”

I have a home device called “bedroom light”, but it looks for a device called “bedroom lights”, doesn’t find anything, then fails, telling me there’s no such device. Absolutely incredible. And this has been happening for many years.

“Science memes”

sonic the hedgehog == science??

Honestly setting the charge limit should just be built into macos. Since it’s possible, I have no idea why they don’t offer that. I find their “machine learned charge limit” or whatever it is to be almost useless because most of the time it just charges to 100% anyway. The built-in feature seems to be very specifically for if you charge overnight and have a regular wake up schedule, it will hold at 80% until a few hours before you wake up and then still go to 100% anyway.

Yeah I use Al Dente and it’s great. Definitely worth paying for. I set the charge limit at 80%, and mostly use my m1 macbook plugged in. The battery life is so great anyway that I very rarely need more than 40-50% of battery in a day when using it lightly. My battery only has 350 cycles from nearly 4 years of use due to using it plugged in mostly.