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  • No. Lemmy posts are always left leaning. There is no right and no center. Thats disheartening. Next to that most communities are too small so no viable discussions follow. Most communities die in months.

    Then again, reddit.com doesnt exist anymore because some schmucks have taken over, resulting in obtrusive ads, profiling and tracking.

    I dont post on reddit anymore. Still follow some subs though because they just dont have an alternative.

    I went from 1 source (reddit) to several(lemmy, mastodon, 4chan, 9gag). And still it feels empty. Mostly because while some memes are nice, 4chan is filled with morons and 9gag… That’s a “racist app” according to its own users. But it doesn’t stop there. A lot of posts there are just vile. Not just right wing nut job, no, they are worse. And masto is mostly the same as lemmy.




  • First you do what you, reading, learning. Then you start building stuff, repurposing old hardware.

    Then you find that something breaks, the old fan in that old system quits, that linux version does something horrible to its ext filesystem because you made a configuration error. And then you look at the 100+wh it uses, 24/7.

    That’s the moment I just bought a qnap which fitted my budget. (or synology or asustor)

    And these run, in your use case, for decades.

    The end.

    Ps: dont forget a backup solution.

    Edit edit edit: decades? Yes, decades. I’ve a TS-210 to prove it. Still churning along as a backup target. I’ve never had a qnap die on me, except one time, an external ac/dc power supply died.

    Edit edit edit edit: muh security! Qnap, synology, asustor bad! Yeah yeah. Don’t use the (qnap) cloud services. They are neat though and quite safe. As long as you keep thinking for yourself.


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    In dutch they are literally called sea-hedgehog. (zee-egel)

    So, while latin and all is nice, there’s always the dutch way of “doe maar normaal dan doe je gek genoeg”. Which translates into: just behave as regular, that’s more than enough excitement.