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Does anyone have experience with building a NAS for their Mac?
  • If you want something more turn-key, go for a Synology box. Go for something with at least 2 drives like a DS220j for less than $200 or the slightly better DS223 for about $250. Just pop whatever drives you want in there, I’d suggest server-grade, NAS drives or SSD for better reliability. Setting this up to work with Time Machine is very easy and there are tons of walkthroughs online for setting that up.

    For a more DIY approach, you can build a TrueNAS box (formerly FreeNAS). Tons of tutorials you can follow online that will tell you everything you need to go this route.

    One thing to note, a NAS will only be available on your home network without additional configuration. TailScale is my recommendation if this is something you want to do.

  • Does anyone have experience with building a NAS for their Mac?
  • If you aren’t already, you may want to use a solid state external drive or be sure that your router it allows the hard drive the sleep. I killed 3 external drives by doing this before I realized what the issue was.

  • Does anyone else feel like it's an issue to have the same community on multiple instances?

    I notice that when I search for communities I see the same community has been created on multiple instances. I could subscribe to all of them but I’d much rather it be one larger community. Does any else see this as an issue or find this frustrating? If so, have you done anything that’s made it easier to deal with or have any ideas of how it could be improved in the future?

    Personally, I’d love to see all the content merged and have the instance tagged on the post, similar to using flair on Reddit.

    I think we’d see better adoption of the fediverse and Lemmy if this could be fixed because the largest complaint I see is the lack of content. There’s a lot of content here, it’s just spread across multiple instances. Just my two cents though…

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    Does it feel like the fediverse is exclusively used by older tech nerds?
  • Yep, that’s definitely me…

    I think it’s really more about being an “early adopter” to something rather than following the mainstream. Tech enthusiasts tend to have more patience with minor inconveniences that come along with new technologies.

    The average users will show up when their friends start using it and talk about it more. I still have people in my everyday life that don’t understand and don’t use Reddit, no chance they’ve even heard of the fediverse.

  • Its been one day without Reddit
  • It’s not too bad. The lack of a history of posts on Lemmy makes me miss Reddit more than anything. The engagement here seems pretty good but I hope it continues to get better. It will just take time.

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