Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

Of course you should only be downloading media that you have rights to and should *NOT* follow this guide for adding more search engines to the built in Download Station software.

http://www.synoboost.com/

The Download Station software *shouldn't* be used for pirating copyrighted material from the comfort of any web browser! https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/packages/DownloadStation

For example, this guy is going to cost less than a year of Netflix and nobody can randomly take away any media you have saved.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1750525-REG/synology_4tb_diskstation_ds120j_1_bay.html

For anyone else pissed off about #Netflix, I suggest cancelling your subscription and getting a Synology NAS. (and get one for whoever you were sharing Netflix with before too)

It's got a nice web interface for downloading stuff (with a search!) and it can stream to all of your devices (on your home network) via the "SMB" protocol.

Just get the cheapest one that has their browser OS thingie.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/products/Servers/ci/15779?filters=fct_brand_name%3Asynology

SaaS companies are vile and greedy little leaches. They leach from people that actually create content, and they leach from people that pay for it.

I'm already paying them for their fancy mutli-device package but apparently now I need to fork over more just so that my mom can watch some shitty copaganda show once in a while.

Honestly might just cancel outright and teach my folks how to use something else.

@fleeky Goat Simulator 2. It's really the GOAT 😤

I'm up here on the lumberjack statue trying to eat his hat but I'm not getting the cheeve for it 😨 What other hat am I even gonna fund!

My goat is now a fairy. 🥰

Honestly hard to make an image caption that captures this majesty

My goatsona. Purple hotrod fur, fairy wings to fly around, extra horns, skull mask to summon more goat friends, and taco shoes for fart jumps. 😎😎😎

@swordplay Pretty much at the moment. I have some friends that registered but I'm the only one active atm.

@swordplay Oh! Also until I did the volume thing I was paying like 40 dollars a month for a beefier droplet since I needed to keep expanding the SSD to fit more posts.

@swordplay Right now I'm paying $12 a month for a 2GB droplet on Digital Ocean with 1 CPU and 50 GB of storage. On top of that I also pay $10 a month for 100GB of storage. This is pretty cheap and works since it's mostly me. In my experience storage has been a bit of a pain, so setting up servers to use cheaper volume storage right from the get go is a good idea.

I'd ask your admins how much their costs are. I assume time spent moderating would be the biggest cost TBH.

Today's episode: Why is my IPFS file sync taking minutes for just a few files?

Problem: distributed.press v1 is taking like 3 minutes just to sync 44 MB of files from a static site and is taking up a strangely large amount of CPU and Disk to process. This then causes the process to be killed which corrupts the IPFS repo and requires manual intervention.

So far my gut feeling is this is due to me using `flush: true` when uploading data to MFS

@DragonDave Negligible since I'm pretty much a single user instance and don't follow many folks that federate with trolls. Been thinking of opening it up a bit more but I think that'll require setting aside more time to write up a policy and make time for following up on any moderation requests.

I pay several times more running a Mastodon instance than I would for twitter blue. AMA