I dislike writing these articles, but here we are. According to HardwareLuxx, Synology is on a rough course with generations-old sub-par NAS hardware and now appears to be locking its NAS units to its own branded hard drives in its upcoming 2025 Plus models. This is a shame since a few years ago, Synology had neat hardware.

they didn’t have neat hardware they had reasonably good software and played nice with any HDD

because they won’t.

You’d get thrown out of a window in Russia for saying that

We live in an age of poverty, greed, violence, destruction. Indeed, the very seat of the federal government, Washington D.C., has been reduced to what is now known as the “Capital Wasteland.” The Capital Wasteland… How did it come to this, America? How did your leaders allow the most powerful nation on Earth… to die? The answer is really quite simple: Incompetence. Incompetence at the highest echelons of power. We put our trust, our faith, in halfwits. Our intrepid leaders had everything they wanted! Power. Wealth. Prestige. And it made them lazy, America. Oh yes, and laziness breeds stupidity. Rest assured, I will not make the mistakes of my predecessors. When John Henry Eden builds a country, he builds it to last. The American way. Don’t you, my darling America, deserve that? Don’t you deserve a future free of war, and fear, and terrible uncertainty? Of course you do. As President of the United States, you have my solemn pledge that I will never rest, NEVER rest, until we all have what we deserve: A place to truly call… home

Israel has no friends and mostly enemies – and is surrounded by them on all sides. They need to be allies with whoever they can, and this means they will make overtures to the Putin-Orban bloc

Canada needs nukes.

Saskatchewan is the 2nd largest source of uranium after Kazakhstan, and building a medium range missile or even short range is well within the Canadian industrial base.

Otherwise the Canadian Army is 47k strong, which is less than the number of bodies at JB Lewis-McCord just south of Seattle. Ditto for the US Army’s 10 Mountain Division, which is in upstate NY and is a short drive to Ottawa or Montreal. Literally 2-3 hours drive to controlling most major Canadian cities – only Edmonton would get a reprieve.

Traffic on major highways would be a larger impediment to the US Military than Canadian military resistance. No nukes, no Canada.

And just like a cat butt it’s always on eye level, some how, no matter where you are

“I love the uneducated”

He has deep connections to US billionaires, and such connections also imply a certain level of friendliness with the Russians, et al.

Most Canadian media is owned by US companies… So one of his big platforms is abolishing the CBC, a neutral state owned media.

The leaders of all major parties got a clearance to see a report of foreign influence in Parliament – except PP. Which means he’s either named directly in the report, and/or that the investigation would flag his blatant and insane connections to foreigners. Like, shit, even Jagmeet Singh was able to do the clearance and get a report.

Sounds like a great use case for getting an AI to do the interview for you – bots talking to bots

Never underestimate how lazy and soulless corporations can be. Unionize, or keep getting treated like shit.

Its not just India pulling his strings

Poilievre DGAF about anything except getting elected and doing the bidding of his billionaire backers

Putin controls a lot of things but he doesn’t own ole Musky. That’s a uniquely special brand of evil and crazy.

Because he hacked the election machines and used Twitter to push spam.

He owns Trump and atrump knows it; otherwise he’d be staring down the barrel of a few dozen felonies.

Calgary is owned by oil and gas. Until those stop being a thing it ain’t gonna happen.

Nah she’s the Alex Jones of the north and ran a talk radio show. She’s a propagandist, and was willing to break the PCs grasp on the province using the Wild Rose party – and in doing so got an NDP candidate elected.

In US terms it’s like if Alex Jones created his own ultra Republican party that broke the GOPs base so badly that Bernie Sanders got elected in the chaos.

Oil companies run the country, along with a couple other big players like the guy who owns Loblaws. They say jump and Alberta plays along. Danielle Smith is just the latest in their long running series of mouthpieces

Traitor

Entrepreneurs are in the business of building new, better worlds. So even if the fact that phones are making the world dumber is depressing, it’s important to face it.

No they’re not, they’re in business to make motherfuckin money, and it’s clear that they DGAF about externalities like making everyone dumb and phone addicted.