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Meth is the #1 most abused drug by clinical scientists. That is to say, just like functional alcoholism is a thing, there's functional meth heads among some of the most well-respected and reputable scientists in the world. Anyway that would be my response if I was told I was basically taking meth.

More like Buys the same data from Meta but okay.

I work and socialize with many Gen Xers and they are very near and dear to my heart, so please know that I say this will all the love in the world. Gen X is left out of the conversation because they're irrelevant to it. They want so badly what their boomer parents had that they may as well just be boomers. If we're talking comedy, music, culture, Gen X has made some brilliant contributions, but when the topic is Millennials getting dragged, Gen X doesn't get mentioned because there's no meaningful generational distinction between them and the Boomers. They've blended in with the very system we are critiquing. And if they're not mentioned there will literally always be a comment like this. Trust me, no one has forgotten you, Gen X. But despite all your rage you are still just a rat in a cage.

Well like I said you can start running servers right now for free with your desktop. Then your best bet is in my opinion going to be buying a NUC, Elitedesk, or another smaller form factor PC, this will save you on energy costs and noise, and flashing truenas to it (Or you can run everything you need to in Windows or Linux or containers if that's what you're comfortable with) and using either external hard drives or getting a hard drive array and using that to store everything. This is going to cost more than a Synology and takes a little setting up but it's infinitely expandable and will suit your needs whatever they become. And don't forget the 3-2-1 rule of backups. These rules are written in blood. And RAID is not a backup, I learned that one the hard way, myself.

All kids think anyone older than them is a boomer. Actual boomers think all kids are millennials. Millennials can't catch a fucking break at either end.

Yep I remember clearly the first time this happened to me with Splashtop Remote in like 2012. And more recently 4K video downloader. "4K video downloader is being deprecated, please upgrade to our new application, 4K video downloader" Literally only difference is my lifetime license is no longer good and I'd have to buy a subscription.

Well, too bad there are easier ways to download content and even if there wasn't you have made sure I will never get anywhere near your products ever again.

Yeah, my understanding is he is trying to adapt Homer's epic poem to film.

When I ask a question it's an attempt for me to understand, bro. You should know that having just asked one yourself.

You don't know what The Odyssey is about?

100% this. I started pirating when I cut cable in the late 00's, and I stopped when you could find literally everything on Netflix for $7 a month. Then I started back up again when they started multiplying, raising their prices, and making content inaccessible. Like video game companies pivoting towards courting* whales rather than the majority of gamers, they know the solution to piracy, but they'd still rather charge less people more than build a system that mitigates piracy.

My wife insists on Paramount plus, and fair enough because they have a LOT of stupid shows I'd rather not download, but anyway... I literally had to let their BS through the PI-Hole for their Roku app to work properly.

Totally fair. I'm actually in the process of building a dedicated Proxmox VM host / TrueNAS server to ease up on my little media server, but for a quiet and powerful yet economical little package these mini PCs are great for the task. After all this time the only modification I've had to make was adding a 2.5Gb compatible NIC.