• @[email protected]
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    09 days ago

    I dislike writing these articles, but here we are. According to HardwareLuxx, Synology is on a rough course with generations-old sub-par NAS hardware and now appears to be locking its NAS units to its own branded hard drives in its upcoming 2025 Plus models. This is a shame since a few years ago, Synology had neat hardware.

    they didn’t have neat hardware they had reasonably good software and played nice with any HDD

    • @[email protected]
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      09 days ago

      They were very convenient and made the nas into an appliance. But the hardware was never that robust. Just came in a nice package with easy to use software.

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    09 days ago

    I’ll never buy from them again as long as they do this. I’ve owned four of their NASes. Fuck them. Hope my current rig lasts many years and they have time to see sales dive and reverse course before I need to reinvest. Even then, I probably won’t choose them again on principle.

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    09 days ago

    Is there one tech business that can avoid tripping over their own dick?

    Apparently not.

    • circuitfarmer
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      09 days ago

      Endless growth is untenable, but it is the law of all investing and shareholders will always demand it. That’s why any for-profit corporation will necessarily enshittify sooner or later.

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        08 days ago

        And yet it’s only been in the last 10-15 years that corporations have gone completely apeshit like this: objectively bad decisions that specifically injure their customer base.

        • circuitfarmer
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          08 days ago

          One major difference is the relative lack of regulation on many industries now. It’s far easier to screw over the consumer than it used to be. It’s also far easier to buy out any potential competition.