Even a stopped clock gives the right time twice a day

I was at work last week and two colleagues loaded on an apple update to their phones. Their phones slowed to a crawl and lost battery charge quickly through the day. The next thing I saw was one of them with the internet browser open putting his credit card details in to buy a new iPhone £650 gone just like that. iPhone users wouldn’t balk at expensive contracts or spending £600 quid on a new iPhone. It seems to me apple deliberately trash their phones and users accept it and upgrade to a newer model. I could understand if it was a cheap phone but jeeze crazy money for something with such a short lifespan. Would you buy a ln expensive TV if you thought it wouldn’t last you any more than a couple of years?

Have you seen the painting possibly of a pizza unearthed of Pompei claimed to be 2000 years old? https://www.indy100.com/news/pizza-painting-pompeii-excavation-italy

The 220+ was the first model I had, I found this slow and didn’t natively support docker as part of the package manager. Docker compatibility should be a priority when buying if delving into some setups mentioned here it just makes everything so much more convenient. The 16 series model is expensive to buy new, I picked mine up used from eBay from someone who was upgrading to a newer model. You can Google Docker compatibility for Synology models and get a list of models that work with it and narrow your choices down to these.

Don’t cheap out on a NAS, I got an entry level Synology when I first started it was great for learning but was quite slow. I needed to sell that and buy a more powerful model to get one that could run Docker. I went for 716+ which I bought used off eBay and works well for me, the difference in speed is night and day. Ram can be upgraded onboard if required. Good luck 👍

I got a lifetime subscription to keepsolid VPN a few years ago £12 for up to 5 devices, figured if I got a year out of it then that’s my money back, still going great now for me. Occasionally they do these lifetime subscription options for bargain price on stacksocial which is where I got mine. Worth keeping an eye out. There are better featured ones out there but all I want is something to funnel my Torrents and indexers through and this works fine on 150mb broadband I have with no speed drop.

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Thank you been using ddg for a couple of years now and had no idea, always opening a new page for Google search this is brilliant 👍

I have this same setup on Synology using docker and funnel all the searches through Jackett and Transmission downloads through a gluetun VPN container. Living in the UK it was a game charger on the ISP restrictions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbSfaKwyfXE

God this is absolutely crazy that friendships go this way these days, I feel old.

Man I completely forgot about IRC, used to use this so much in my teens. Good to know it’s still alive

I worked for a major isp in the late 90s supporting dialup, used to be queues of up to 4 hours to get through, it was heavily oversubscribed and people constantly getting busy tones when trying to connect, this wasn’t a problem that was going to be fixed anytime soon. Often you’d answer he phone and find people snoring who had fallen asleep waiting to get through, youd shout to wake them up then hang up. You also had to be creative with answrs when they did get through like giving them a code to put in front of their number when dialling in 'to bypass the queue ’ by the time they’d ring in again and get through your shift was over and they were irate with someone else.

Many cars are charged from solar or from renewable energy. You look at the environmental costs of extracting and refining oil, storing it, the carbon cost of shipping it and then driving it to its final destination via HGV to the fuel station. It then had to be electrically pumped from the ground into your car then you burn it off back into the atmosphere for everyone to breathe back in again. The lithium comes from the same mines used to make the phone battery you are reading this message from. The EV battery will live much longer than your ICE car as it can be almost totally recycled and end of life or used as storage for home battery systems.