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moocow said:
Has it ever occurred to you that if companies fuck up, and then actually listen to customer feedback, they might still be worthy of doing business with? That actually listening to customers deserves the reward of continued business from those customers? That perhaps if they fuck up, listen to feedback, and then all the customers walk away despite that, that maybe they won't listen to feedback the next fucking time?
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You may have heard this paraphrased (poorly) by other people.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
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Even if they did "make a mistake", they should have thought about the consequences of their greed and didn't. The pushback against requiring branded drives when a hard drive is a standardised part is entirely obvious and to be expected. Stop defending large corps. They know exactly what they are doing. I could even tell how the discussion may have gone in the meeting room because I've been in those types of meeting myself. They know full fucking well what they have been doing. They miscalculated the amount of pushback they got, but they expected it, and they will try reintroducing it again in the future. If you think otherwise, you are simply naive.

I've learnt over the years that if a business starts engaging in this bullshit, it cannot be trusted. As a result, I only buy hardware that is open and I can do whatever the fuck I want with because it entirely removes the possibility of a company being able to do this in the first place.
 
SchizoDaemon said:
I've learnt over the years that if a business starts engaging in this bullshit, it cannot be trusted. As a result, I only buy hardware that is open and I can do whatever the fuck I want with because it entirely removes the possibility of a company being able to do this in the first place.
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Fair enough, and as I told the other hosehead, you're always more than welcome to come over to my place and -- at your expense of course -- replace the "offending" equipment (purchased prior to these antics by the company) with comparably functional and reliable equipment of a "currently approved but ALWAYS SUBJECT TO IMMEDIATE CANCELLATION AT MY (YOUR) SOLE DISCRETION" brand instead if it makes you feel better.

The high-horse attitude about "sucking corporate cock" would bite a little harder if you lads weren't actively recommending fucking Netapp equipment as a DIY replacement for the accursed Synology™ brand Satan Containment Units w/Secondary NAS Characteristics. I don't think that hardware is "open." And since it's fashionable now to hold companies permanently accountable for literally everything bad they ever do, Netapp: 1) was a patent troll re: ZFS against Sun Microsystems, 2) sued ex-employees over bogus trade secret theft allegations and, having failed those antics in the US is currently pursuing it in a more shithead-friendly venue in Ireland of all places, 3) widely considered extraordinarily overpriced.

But I guess buying "tainted" equipment second-hand absolves it and its new owner of "original sin" or some shit? Despite the fact that having a thriving secondary (i.e. used) market for old models also directly benefitting the company by reassuring customers that their expensive brand-new Netapp™ gear will still have value five years down the road, which encourages new purchases.

I know it deeply and sincerely hurts you that someone's money was spent in a way you didn't personally approve, but you're just going to have to learn to live with that. Or, as I said above, come put in something better if you need to feel that "win" of removing two Synology devices from active use.

Though I do realize any non-rabid foaming-at-the-mouth DESTROY THE CORPOS™ attitude toward any non-human construct with money in the piracy thread will inherently bother most of its inhabitants. You're allergic. I get it. It's okay. A soothing salve or perhaps some talcum will help make it feel all better.

Meanwhile, I smugly renew your suffering as I stare at a "disk report: healthy" status panel and run a quick df -h|grep /mnt on one of my network's hosts:
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odin:/volume1/storage              147T   21T  127T  15% /mnt/u
odin:/volume2/storage2             123T  115T  8.2T  94% /mnt/s
thor:/volume1/storage3             140T  129T   12T  92% /mnt/t
Four hundred ten terabytes. Smooth as buttah. Read it and fucking weep. :story:

Maybe you can make fun of the hostname scheme or something else to help yourselves feel better. I can pretend to have spent more than two seconds caring about it if it'll help give you something to latch onto for another two page debate about naming schemes and the originality (or lack thereof) of using mythological pantheons as name sources.

Just trying to work with 'ya here.
 
moocow said:
Fair enough, and as I told the other hosehead, you're always more than welcome to come over to my place and -- at your expense of course -- replace the "offending" equipment (purchased prior to these antics by the company) with comparably functional and reliable equipment of a "currently approved but ALWAYS SUBJECT TO IMMEDIATE CANCELLATION AT MY (YOUR) SOLE DISCRETION" brand instead if it makes you feel better.
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What a ridiculous argument. If you have working equipment and are happy with it, fine. That is your prerogative. Use what you like.

I was commenting specifically on what you said about how companies behave. I used to believe that "they just made a mistake" until I was in a boardroom where <a mega corpo> told me exactly what their strategy was with the equipment.

My points were very simple:
  • It is their fault if they destroyed trust between them and the consumer.
  • Don't trust large corporations that "boil the frog" with obviously anti-consumer bullshit in an attempt to milk their consumer base.
  • Do your research before you purchase any equipment.
  • Use hardware that has an open source or follows open specifications whenever possible.
BTW, I do this outside of computer-related purchases.
moocow said:
The high-horse attitude about "sucking corporate cock" would bite a little harder if you lads weren't actively recommending fucking Netapp equipment as a DIY replacement for the accursed Synology™ brand Satan Containment Units w/Secondary NAS Characteristics.
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I didn't recommend anything. I built my own NAS using readily available PC components and run a variant on Linux on it with ZFS. When I can afford to get a new one, it will be built with readily available PC components. Is it the best NAS in the world? No. But it is more than sufficient for my needs.
moocow said:
I know it deeply and sincerely hurts you that someone's money was spent in a way you didn't personally approve, but you're just going to have to learn to live with that. Or, as I said above, come put in something better if you need to feel that "win" of removing two Synology devices from active use.
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What are you on about? This is your own headcanon. If you like their kit, that is fine. Use what you want. I won't be recommending them going forward, but that doesn't affect you in any way.
 
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I store all my pirated shit on a 1 tb HDD I salvaged from work connected to a raspberry pi running Libreelec hooked up to my TV. If that HDD dies, I'll just pirate more shit, I guess. If you're shtting up the piracy thread with a a gay slap fight about expensive hardware for storing pirated content, please pirate the 3D printer plans for a gun and kill yourself.
 
Should virtualize your NAS, but some like living on the edge.
Get a DS4246, swap to IOM12, buy some 520-byte disks to make 512 great again, run Synology from USB on thinclient, server, laptop, desktop, or whatever.
When done piss all over it, give your money to Broadcom, and drives to limp disk half-petabyte.
 
D_Tractor said:
Aren't they all distributed for free with like a Creative Commons license so no need to pirate?
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Listen here, you fucking fuck. I killed myself and if the method works for me... WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU TO ARGUE WITH ME?!?

This high horse attitude about Creative Commons would bite a little harder if you FUCKING FAGGOTS weren't constantly killing yourself with mass produced bullets.

I know it deeply and sincerely hurts you that someone killed themself in a way you didn't personally approve.
 
Jang Joo said:
the malware risks in piracy are severely overstated.
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It depends on how stupid you are; download from a fucking YouTube video? Yeah, the risk of malware is higher. Download from a Russian hacking forum? Basically null. - I feel as if people just use their experiences as a kid as the here-and-now experience. I got a virus, so you must too, otherwise, I look like an idiot!
 
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