My one and only Pi is exclusively for piracy. Qbittorrent, VPN, Radarr, Sonarr, Lidarr, Prowlarr. My NAS does everything else. If my Pi died spontaneously, it’d be annoying but not devastating. I’ve been thinking about cloning the SD card so if/when it dies, I can just plug in a new one.

This trick is common enough and trivial to reverse engineer. I can just purge my billion-email-address hacked list of all characters between a + and an @ and have a clean list that untraceable with your system.

If your Synology NAS is in Raid, up-sizing your drives is dead simple.

Pop out one of your current, smaller drives. Pop in a new, bigger drive. Wait for Disk Station to migrate data over to the new drive (note that this can literally take days depending how much data there is). Then do the same with the next old, small drive and the next one until all old, small drives are replaced with new, big ones.

This will work as long as your current drives are not like 24 TB or whatever the upper limit is these days. In that case, you need more bays.

After this is done, move all the data from your externals onto your Synology NAS.

Where can I find the auto reboot setting?

What if you long press power button amd select “lock down”? Does that put it in the same BFU state?

How did your boss respond?

You gotta start somewhere, man

Renaming the department of defense the department of war is definitely going to win him the peace prize

For what it’s worth, they’re dropping the branded drive requirement https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/synology-caves-walks-back-some-drive-restrictions-on-upcoming-nas-models/

Are there any security concerns that this is a Chinese company?

Does it do RAID?

I’m in a similar situation with my 218+ so I’m interested to hear some answers. It’s still running great though so I don’t need to replace it soon but I like planning ahead

I use Proton VPN only because I use Proton everything else. If not, I’d probably consider Mullvad. But I’m in the US and regional pricing doesn’t apply.

A digital antenna

Signal or Proton Drive

This is illegal in a lot of states

Can you explain to my mom how to install tailscale on her Roku and that she has to turn it on each time she wants to use Jellyfin but then back off again when she wants to watch something on a different app?

Couldn’t have said it better myself. Very Give a Mouse a Cookie vibes when talking to someone explaining how Jellyfin is a drop in replacement for Plex when they’re on step 6 of setting up remote access

I still use Craigslist! Have alerts set up right now

Conversely, letting friends use your Jellyfin is complicated.