TedZanzibar

To be fair the Synology lineup is confusing, but if you get the right model - one with a Ryzen processor and support for 32GB memory (officially; they can take more) - then you've got yourself a proper little workhorse with low power consumption, a stable, reliable OS, and super easy expansion thanks to the hot-swap drive bays and their Hybrid RAID option. My 8 bay model is running a couple of full-blown VMs and what must be two dozen or so docker containers while barely breaking a sweat. The DS723+ is the equivalent 2 bay model.

For things that need some acceleration like Plex and Immich I've added a little N100 box (a Beelink S12 Pro) with Ubuntu Server and another Docker instance, and mounted the NAS storage via SMB. This also sips power even when transcoding 4x Plex streams at once.

All of which is to say you don't need to do a complex, potentially power hungry and difficult to expand self build to do what you want.

Neither does the BBC's couch to 5k app, for who knows what reason.

Ohhhhh I see. The wording on that page could be so much better!

I don't get it. What's it supposed to be doing?

It's the same in the UK but "legal tender" doesn't mean what most people think it means.

When you buy something from a shop you're technically offering to enter a contractual relationship for the purchase of said goods. If the shop agrees to your terms, including how you'd like to pay, then the contract is ratified. If they don't accept your preferred method of payment then there is no contract of sale and there is no debt to be paid.

This is also why shops don't have to honour pricing errors; when you bring the item to the checkout you're technically just offering to buy it for the listed price and they can choose to reject your offer.

This is excellent but alas I can't get it to work in nginx-proxy-manager. Keen to see if anyone else can figure it out.

Make an offer of $0.01. Assuming the responses aren't automated, every time they reject it, raise the offer by 1c. Keep doing it till you hit the $15 mark and then just stop. It could waste literal years of their time.

I'll have to have a look when I'm next in the vacinity but I'm pretty sure I have an APC Easy UPS on mine and it works out of the box.

Let me get back to you...

Update: It's an APC Back-UPS 850. No doubt the instructions banged on about requiring Powerchute but I just plugged it into the Syno and it worked fine. You do need to enable UPS support on the NAS itself of course, from Control Panel/Hardware & Power/UPS, and set it to USB UPS.

Dillon, you son of a bitch you piece of shit!

I think Labour has already pledged not to raise taxes, but let's play devil's advocate and pretend that they were going to slap a £2000 on everyone of working age.

Doing some fuzzy maths based on statistics I can find online from 2 years ago, that's roughly 45 million people, or £90 billion a year. Or to put in into the Brexit campaign's favourite terms, £1.7 billion per week going into public coffers.

I'm not suggesting such a flat structure would actually make sense as a policy, but that maybe tax rises as a concept aren't always a universally bad thing.

Unless you're hosting VHDs and need maximum throughput (in which case use NFS), SMB is going to be the easiest to setup and maintain across those 4 platforms.

The Linux SMB implementation is decent and supports the latest version of the protocol (or close to, at least) whereas NFS in Windows ain't so great and is a bit of a pig to get working in my experience.

Thirded. It's helped me a lot with picking up the compose syntax, to the point that I'm now comfortable combining disparate services into their own stacks. And I can spin something up from an example compose in less than a minute.