FailForward @FailForward@qoto.org

@Pat Oooh, this wakes up so many thoughts. Very good shot there! Thanks!

I am sure this would instigate a “culture war”, but I also truly believe that conservatism is primarily about fear.

Says somebody mostly voting for “center-right” in my geography 🙂

Pain is often a trampoline that will launch us into our next stage of life, if we’re willing to let it.

– still Ashley Stahl

People who call themselves realists are often just dreamers who gottheir hearts broken somewhere along the way.

– Ashley Stahl/TEDx talk

@z428 Very @archillect@high.cat style

@rjkucia@mastodon.social @piggo You should at least appreciate that I “shortened” your trip to the nearest shop where they sell by about 1000km. It sounds like a win in my book. Well, unless you want to approach the said shop from the east, of course.

@piggo It would be only marginally better if it was a bit fancier glass. But IKEA?!

@piggo Ha! What a blasphemy!

@piggo @rjkucia@mastodon.social Recently (last 2-3 years) I saw Krusovice in several German supermarket chains.

@kaychristianheine The first 👍

@piggo @solexid Curious. Or is it just a photoshoped pic?

@piggo I sound like a QNAP sales rep. Anyhow, for some years I was trying to figure out a home server/storage/… for myself and after wasting zillions of hours on it and considering building an HPC solution myself, I decided to take the plunge on this and I do not regret. For my needs works fine. It’s of course not all roses sometimes, but that’s OK. After 2+ years of ownership so far I did not regret for a moment.

What I also like is that I have a VPN server (QNAP app) on it and they have Dynamic DNS sorted well, so accessing this from outside of home is super easy. And not speaking yet about they myQnapCloud service which makes it even easier.

I shall stop with this advertisement…

@piggo

Re packages: yes. These are normal packages QNAP system understands. In the official interface there’s an option to install 3rd party package repositories and then you install and update these normally. The same as installing a PPA on an Ubuntu-based OS.

Re NAS as a PC: yes, that is a thing too. I have it hooked to a TV (because Kodi of course) and a keyboard + mouse dongle. The whole thing has something called HDMI apps and then you simply use the whole thing as a full-fledged computer, just the Desktop UI is somewhat spartan and less featured than say GNOME, or KDE Plasma. Yet, very usable. I do not use it in that mode - as I do not need it, but it’s build so that you can run your whole office on it.

Probably the best 3rd-party apps for the thing are things like ownCloud, Kodi and then plethora of home automation tools (not speaking about Borg and their Hybrid Mount - which is just nice if you hook it up with something like Backblaze, or such) . Also QNAP builds these devices to natively support surveillance tech - a set of IP cams to store home/shop/whatever surveillance videos. So if that’s a thing for you, it’s well integrated too.

@piggo That’s not the right way to see what this can do for you. Yes, QNAP reimplemented craploads of things and often it has a good quality (backup solutions, VPN/networking mgmt/config/etc), though sometimes not (nextcloud, media stuff, etc.) Applications-wise you shall look at 3rd party packages available for this. Have a peek here: https://www.qnapclub.eu/en. You get anything your heart desires and more. And of course the device runs some custom version of linux and you get shell access too, so you can fix (break?) whatever you need - they just do not advertise it too openly.

@piggo I solved that very same problem with QNAP TS-251+ with pimped up RAM. I figured I do not have time and energy to fiddle with half-assed home-brewed solutions of mine and this just works. Especially because I am more fond of LXC than Docker and QNAP Container Station gives me that way all the freedom I need to play. Virtualization Station is a bit heavyweight for any of my home purposes.

@bonifartius

I’d say it strongly depends on the country/culture/social bubble you are in. There are segments of western societies where participation in hobby clubs/extracurricular
activities is a thing. These are often long-term projects with a strong sense of teamwork. And also, professional work activities can serve this well - as far as one has a level of control and agency in them, which is again a function of the local culture and perhaps also the level of affluence in the given context.

@zleap @thor @shibao @evelyn

Taking it a bit farther back to the original observation that most psych advice out there targets women, your observation would explain why it actually is so. So what would be the equivalent of a mental health advice magazine column for men? Perhaps your local DIY store ? 😄

@bonifartius @zleap @thor @shibao @evelyn

@bonifartius This was a very good take on this topic. Thanks a lot! Especially this bit:

i think men take strength out of doing things together, while women tighten their bonds by talking about their feelings.

@zleap @thor @shibao @evelyn

@georgia This one is indeed served as a side dish to soak in sauces’s flavour, but there are savoury varieties with fresh herbs too, like e.g., this

@piggo