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Inside: A disenshittification moment from the land of mass storage; and more!
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@pluralistic lately I noticed so much of enshittification looks like something about what RMS would say "I told you".
And it explains FSF's weird policy of calling closed firmware that cannot be updated by manufacturer as respecting your freedom. Because then manufacturer can't push update to remotely disable hard drives from competitor.
@pluralistic I'm also cheering this news, but I think the guru3d article is misleading? And you may have missed some of the nuance?
Synology's media release says this is a temporary pause, not a reversal.
Also, they didn't ban all 3rd party drives. They had a "Hardware Compatibility List" and it included Seagate, Toshiba, WD, etc.
They've had the list for years, it just didn't apply to consumer grade NAS.
And drives not on the list still worked, but didn't provide all functionality.
@pluralistic main takeaway: "Of course, no one should ever buy a Synology product again." - I won't recommend them to anyone again despite of their 180
@spitfire @pluralistic I’m in the market for a new NAS, and the first thing I read was the “good news” about Synology. Completely disqualifying behavior.
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