I guess… I am still very skeptical the profit margin even if some people do end up paying for the storage. We’re talking about petabytes on petabytes of data… How many people need to pay a cloud subscription fee to pay for the overhead of the servers?

Idk. This is super suss to me but again, I am clearly not the target market for this service so maybe I don’t have a firm grasp of the landscape.

It cannot be that profitable to have just a bunch of random data on their servers. I have so much junk and random bullshit on my drives, it would take a week of labor just to clean my shit well enough to use it for AI training and as soon as I got any notification about cloud space being full i’d turn syncing off - i sure as hell wouldn’t fork over any money for a subscription. This is such a big bridge to burn, and the server overhead must be massive… I just don’t understand how they could possibly think this is a good business decision.

Idk, maybe i’m just too deep into privacy/FOSS/selfhosting headspace to see things clearly from the normal-consumer standpoint but I just do not understand this. I really wish someone would leek an internal conversation at one of these companies that explains the big-picture strategy with this move.

Lmao

Yup, I ended up frankensteining a nas from various craigslist parts (i actually found a low-power business-class server motherboard that has worked out well for the purpose). Had to get a SAS HBA card and a couple SFF-8087 cables to do the job right, and I grabbed an old gaming case from the 2010’s to hold it all, but it was relatively seamless. I had one of the drives go out already, but luckily I had it in a raid configuration with parity so it was just a matter of swapping out the drives and rebuilding.

It’s been fun and rewarding, for sure! I’m glad I didn’t sell them like these other dweebs told me to lol

if you continue to try { thisBullshit(); } you are going to catch (theseHands)

This is the most beautiful thing I’ve read all year

Maybe in a particular light, but I’m personally of the opinion that intellectual property and patent law is antithetical to good social policy… so idk. Ideally we’d all benefit from the knowledge and ingenuity of all mankind but in a capitalist economic world-view there’s no place for egalitarianism so…

If they can take the same tech and make it better/produce it cheaper then I think that’s great, go nuts.

But that’s obviously just me.

People shit on China all the goddamn time here but they’ve done a prolific job becoming the tech and manufacturing leader in a handful of decades.

Blame it on tech espionage if you want but there’s a reason the US is deadset on targeting Chinese imports, and it’s hardly for any of the security reasons they might be tempted to claim it to be. The US is about to be left behind and it’s noones fault but our own.

Guess ill be trying my hand at building my own pfsense router

This has to be a copypasta

Yea, I don’t think the se runs it out of the box but I’ve heard an rpi can be used

I got the se a couple months ago, unfortunately it doesn’t use klipper without modding it with a rpi as far as I know

This sounds exactly like the beginning of 3 body problem

Tinytina coyly laughing behind her hand actually made me angry

Actually I think it’s on the people who go to .ml specifically to make an ideological statement

That’s funny because I run into that regularly on .world but I’ve never thought ‘there must be a mod abusing their moderation right now’

Well I certainly agree it’s good to be aware of the expectations of that instance if you plan on participating there, but that doesn’t make their way of moderating their forum yours to judge.

But yea, it seems some people here who are complaining about being banned or having content removed could benefit from being more aware of the expectations of the forum their engaging with. I could have sworn I read you complaining about being banned for something I could have told you is likely to earn you a ban… Must’ve been someone else I guess.

But this shit is precisely why I wanna have a good internet space for legit debate

Then create a political debate comm? What’s stopping you from doing that? I’d personally block that community immediately, because online debate bros have probably the least tolerable kind of online behavior. Thinking you can walk into someone else’s community and start ‘political debate’ is probably why you can’t understand their moderation - if I was the mod I’d ban you too

I’m familiar with linkerbann, I like seeing him around

why does it matter if you think it’s normal? it’s not your instance

It’s only a failure of moderation from your outside perspective, I’m sure people inside .ml might feel differently

though please don’t take that metaphor any further, comparing Lenin to Jesus is not the intent

Lmao