For what it’s worth, they’re dropping the branded drive requirement https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/synology-caves-walks-back-some-drive-restrictions-on-upcoming-nas-models/

Are there any security concerns that this is a Chinese company?

Does it do RAID?

I’m in a similar situation with my 218+ so I’m interested to hear some answers. It’s still running great though so I don’t need to replace it soon but I like planning ahead

I use Proton VPN only because I use Proton everything else. If not, I’d probably consider Mullvad. But I’m in the US and regional pricing doesn’t apply.

From someone just learning Python, what’s wrong with Python?

A digital antenna

Signal or Proton Drive

This is illegal in a lot of states

Can you explain to my mom how to install tailscale on her Roku and that she has to turn it on each time she wants to use Jellyfin but then back off again when she wants to watch something on a different app?

Couldn’t have said it better myself. Very Give a Mouse a Cookie vibes when talking to someone explaining how Jellyfin is a drop in replacement for Plex when they’re on step 6 of setting up remote access

Conversely, letting friends use your Jellyfin is complicated.

The networking aspect is basically the only thing stopping me from switching from Plex to Jellyfin. I got Jellyfin running and accessing my server myself, while on my home network is easy. However, when it comes to accessing outside of my network, it gets complicated, and when it comes to other people accessing my server it gets more complicated, and then accessing my own server and friends’ servers it gets even more complicated.

With Plex, all of that is super easy. I can watch stuff from my own server and my friends’ servers on any device, including a web browser, and I can tell my mom, for example, “install Plex on your Roku and tell me what email address you use to log in” and boom, she has access to my library.

Wow, didn’t know Pocket Casts has ads now. Just opened it up to check, and yep. Right on the homepage, an add for Pocket Casts Plus.

Maybe it’s time to check out Antenna Pod

I’ve definitely hired a plumber without using Meta

Do you know if you can import and edit STL files with 3d experience?

I’m intrigued but confused. What’s the difference between 3DEXPERIENCE and xDesign? Are they the same thing or different? Do you need both or just one or the other? They’re called “packages” so do you need some kind of base install and then choose which package to put on top of it? All of the demonstration videos show it running in a browser but people in this thread are complaining about lack of Linux support

I got a 3d printer about a year ago and looked into CAD software and came to the exact same conclusion you just did. I ended up using Plasticity. I thiink I paid $150 for a year of updates. But there are still two major drawbacks: first is it’s not parametric, as you said, but more importantly you can’t import stls and edit them. You can export stls, but you have to make them from scratch. You can technically import an stl but it’s impossible to edit. Oftentimes I find a design online but I want to tweak it to my purposes but I can’t do that.

I’d love it if Free CAD had a better UI. It’s just so frustrating and hideous to use.

VS Code also has AI features. Would you be telling people to not use other suites if they were being developed in VS Code? Why should they be forced to use an IDE that explicitly excludes AI?

Thanks for helping me get this far but now I’m stuck. Neither yt-dlp nor pasting the url into the browser works. The latter gets me the image below, yt-dlp says it’s not a valid url

Edit: I got it to work with yt-dlp. I forgot the quotes around the url