No, Les, you don't need to build a Door application for your BBS that lets you turn lights on and off in Home Assistant
I took a nap and dreamed there was a Buckaroo Banzai convention
@QueenRandumb you don't have to eat the carob or the cashew cheeze if you don't want to
@mhoye A little if-modified-since / if-none-match to get some 304 Not Modified responses would go a long way too. (that and, yeah, just back the heck off in general)
@tedmielczarek @nervous_jesse Peacocks are also LOUDER than you expect. For some reason, a professor kept one in a courtyard of the building where I had computer science classes in college for awhile and you really knew there was a peacock there.
I've got a Synology DS723+ NAS. It's been okay as a file server, but part of why I got it was because it claims to support Docker and running VMs.
Well, it does run Docker. But, it runs Docker Engine v24 wrapped up in their own proprietary management package. Upstream is at v27 and I can't upgrade it. Also their management package locks up in weird ways and has been unreliable.
It does run VMs. But, every time I try to install a simple Debian 13 VM, it ends up freezing on boot. No idea why.
So, I dunno, maybe I expected too much from the thing. This is my 3rd Synology NAS, the previous two have only served as network file servers and done fine at that. This is the first one I thought might do a lil more. I think the next replacement for this thing will just be a plain old Linux server on a surplus PC
@genericperson I think these Synology devices are "apple-like" insofar as they should "just work" but otherwise they're a nightmare to get anything not-Synology running on them as an OS.
Ironically, I started getting Synology NASes, years ago, because I was tired of running my own Linux machines at home. Now the turntables have turned, I guess
@tomjennings I got one of these, a few years ago. Seems similar, at least in principle? I don't even know what to think of brands anymore.
But, what I got worked decently well for some SMD training kits with blinkenlights and to replace some ESP8266 wifi modules on a few gadgets
@tomjennings Heh, yeah, I feel like the irony of these American brands having been sold of to be juiced to death means that any random thing straight from the Chinese factory that manufactures for them is just as likely to be reliable and probably cheaper 😅
@j Yeah, I think that's my near-future path too. I have proxmox on an old underpowered PC just to play with it, but I think I need to get a better old PC to upgrade