Yeah I’ve already got syncthing running on a pi which syncs to the nas.

Good suggestion thank you. I looked into this a couple of months ago but forgot all about it!

This looks nice, but I have a fear of sexy looking free stuff because usually it means in a couple of years they’ll pull the rug from under you as they try and become profitable.

20yrs ago I had to help my comp sci housemate build a website for his module. I was not a CS student.

Some things never change.

Alt: a single pane comic in which a person says to another person: "silicate chemistry is second nature to us geochemists, so it’s easy to forget that the average person probably only knows the formulas for olivine and one or two feldspars.

The other person says: “and quartz, of course”

The first person replies: “of course.”

The caption to the comic reads “even when they’re trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person’s familiarity with their field”

You didn’t go to hospital? How did you know you weren’t going to die?

Sincerely, someone about 1000 miles from my closest Scorpion.

I like when I go to some hotels and they have “international sockets” - basically the bastard child of all these sockets.

Indeed!

Thankfully Tom Scott can tell us which one is best:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UEfP1OKKz_Q

You know Dropbox? Google drive? OneDrive? That’s file synchronisation. Files across multiple devices kept in sync by the software provider. Except in the named cases above, all your data is uploaded to their servers. With syncthing there’s no cloud server, just your devices operating over the internet. So you have some backup responsibility to cover.

Caveat: I’ve never used syncthing and I wrote the above with a total of 10 seconds of reading their website and so it is entirely possible I’m completely wrong about everything and so I emplore you to do your research.

I think a lot of your post is spot on but one thing I do disagree with you on:

Meta doesn’t do anything “for fun” it does everything for profit. If their exec board thought that promoting well-being and good mental health was more profitable, meta would do that instead of the other shit you talk about. A minor nitpick of your post but I think it’s always worth bearing in mind that companies like meta are singularly motivated by greed.