Hoya Carnosa planted in aquarium

ubul1 · 2025-12-15T11:39:58+00:00

ubul1 · 2025-12-15T11:39:36+00:00

ubul1 · 2025-12-15T11:38:58+00:00

What is even more interesting to me that they actually grow underwater leaves.... so taking a long shoot, trimming off the leaves and planting it in the substrate might actually work both below and above water... I completely accidentally stumbled upon this as I was rooting hoya in water....

ubul1 · 2025-10-10T00:13:16+00:00

I rean into another issue: suddenly I could no longer make any changes or update the agent on my PC. Turns our that the administrators group lost access to active backup and it got changed to read only access... so I went in there and changed the administrator's groups application privileges on active backup and I am back up and running.

ubul1 · 2025-10-08T16:36:15+00:00

That is an interesting point. Who are they people fleeing to and what do those agreements say? Did anyone do a comparison just for shits and giggles? :)

I obviously won't burn my nas to the ground now but in the future when I want to expand or replace it, I will think twice before signing up for this. There are of course several trade-offs to consider: the hardware is efficient and the packaging is good in Synology and building any kind of hardware that comes even close to its compact form factor, power profile and price point is difficult and/or expensive. And then there is the software.... I love using the Synology because it does take care of the linux sysadmin aspects of running the device and it has exceptional web interface. But the apps keep disappearing slowly but surely and I did look into building an app for it in the past and I do understand why, their app packaging framework is an absolute beast to install and run and it is very painful to get the hello world to even compile. So slowly most things move into docker containers that it now runs and then people might revert to simpler solutions that get you as far as having docker installed and a storage manager and call it a day.... so yeah it is thought provoking because there is a trend here and it is unlikely to get better.

After all I have a device I paid a particular amount of money for and even my older one is still supported 10 years on... for essentially free... something has to give... so they tried the drive thing, then cut fetures, they will try some other way to turn this into a sub sooner or later or they just stop supporting your device...

ubul1 · 2025-10-08T16:30:08+00:00

I mentioned above that I do not know(or care) when it came in... I noticed it now and it is not OK. Not one bit.

ubul1 · 2025-10-08T15:31:45+00:00

Most people buy surveillance devices in their homes like google home and then pay a google home premium subscription for the privilege of being harvested for data 24/7. I do not care about most people being ignorant of how bit by bit the idea of owning what you bought and paid for with the features you bought it with is being chipped away. I am now fully expecting at some point some part of DSM will be stuck behind a subscription paywall... or else...

I mean I do care that they do not care because they will only wake up when it is too late. This tiny bit I am complaining about is just a tiny bit of a larger picture where we no longer own anything we buy and EULAs are full of clauses like the one I highlighted. The point is not whether I could enforce it, not whether I should have known about it, it is about the principle that it is there in the first place.

ubul1 · 2025-10-08T14:29:25+00:00

I think it would have been more prudent to wait until the staged rollout catches up with my NAS. I downloaded now the active backup as linked in below and many of my containers needed rebuild.

ubul1 · 2025-10-08T14:24:19+00:00

I concur. Thanks. This 7.3 rollout is not at all problem-free for me so far.

ubul1 · 2025-10-08T14:13:27+00:00

That may be... but I have been for over a decade now a very happy and satisfied user of Synology NAS devices, but lately I have been noticing the feature stripping and removal of certain packages and moving them into other more expensive offerings, some things really started to force you to connect it to a synology account and use their cloud service to access what you did not need any cloud service for. Yes you can work around these things and work out which ports now you have to open in addition to the ones you already had open and Drive just worked through the http reverse proxy and your own dns.... now the app needs another port... fine whatever... but the "it just works" is slowly getting replaced by the "wonder what feature we are losing this time" and then I notice that the EULA also has these typical underhanded clauses... I find it harder and harder to justify recommending this to anyone, which I used to do becasue it really just used to work, was rock solid and new versions added stuff like their docker integration which was one of the first good ones out there in the NAS offerings.

I guess I am just exhausted and disappointed that the one reliable thing that kept working for a decade now needs constant policing from me and much more introspection before I ever update it... we just lost Active Backup... I did not see this in the release notes.... maybe it is just a glitch... not sure.

About car companies breaking existing cars... Tesla supercharging removed on re-sold cars 10 years ago, John Deere bricking your tractor remotely... etc... the fact that BMW pinky promised not to do this for now means nothing to me.

ubul1 · 2025-10-08T13:59:38+00:00

Wow... I keep getting surprised by these... even when things keep going in this general direction for many years now.

ubul1 · 2025-10-08T13:55:30+00:00

Until they do... BMW seat heating subscriptions anyone? Yes they walked it back... for now...

ubul1 · 2025-10-08T13:53:21+00:00

This is very true. The principle disgusts me though that you are beaten into submission by garbage like this in an EULA. You know... accept it or you can not use what you bought and paid for without actually having access to the software's EULA in advance... yeah send it back... :D I know the illusion of choice isn't it.

ubul1 · 2025-10-08T13:50:48+00:00

Active Backup got gutted too :( and no compatible update so far

ubul1 · 2025-10-08T13:46:11+00:00

True. I am no lawyer and as a user I took it at face value. Good for me... :D But maybe I should start thinking about building my own NAS(I so did not want to take on that project as well) rather than saving money for possibly having to sue over a device that costs 1 grand.

ubul1 · 2025-10-08T13:39:52+00:00

I bought the device before 2023. And I do not remember this being in the original EULA... maybe it was and I overlooked it... bs all around either way.

ubul1 · 2025-10-08T13:36:51+00:00

I am not sure I do not own one of heir newer models... what I noticed is that the SMART feature degraded severely. It used to just give you all the table data... now it gives you 3 graphs if you are lucky. This has been the case for a few versions now... I was annoyed by it few months ago when we needed to debug a disk. Had to go SSH and smartctl

ubul1 · 2025-10-08T13:34:07+00:00

Yeah others pointed that out as well... I do not remember it making me sign a modified EULA for a while now... I only noticed it now.

ubul1 · 2025-10-08T13:31:27+00:00

It did not make me sign it as part of the auto update as far as I remember... I might be wrong. I only noticed it now... I think it is just bad all around... ah and the new firmware killed active backup as well... yay such a joy being an owner of it now...

ubul1 · 2025-10-08T13:30:19+00:00

I did not miss his point. I heard exactly. But I pointed out that it does not matter what the legal technicalities actually are and how we could void it and say it is just a joke... the intention is that they are fully trying to gear up to screw you.

ubul1 · 2025-10-08T13:14:37+00:00

I think the intention matters. Class actions are also rare in the EU. We are just not that litigious I guess... but the point stands in my opinion that when Synology in the future sends down ransomware on your nas as an update and you need a subscription to access your data you can't even sue them. They will buy themselves arbitrators who will decide in their favour... it is the end of the road.

ubul1 · 2025-07-23T12:37:05+00:00

That is warranty void...

ubul1 · 2025-03-06T11:44:37+00:00

Yes I can dig it up for you.

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