Two companies, the manufacturer and the store. And it’s happened a lot in the past.

Glad you’re trying to steer one of them into the right direction.

Oh boy.

I recently bought a perishable that I opened the following day. It had mold on it, while the “best by” date was 2 months away.

The contact info they listed on the package didn’t work.

I contacted the store I bought it from, just to let them know they might have a bad batch

A week later I get contacted back. They said bring it in and the receipt for a refund.

No one at these companies really gives a shit.

It offers some other features like hybrid access to data,If my nas isn’t available I can access it from their cloud. There’s also some identity services.

Backup to 2nd nas.

Important stuff gets backed up to cloud storage. Whatever is cheapest.

In my case Synology c2 cloud was cheapest.

Servers are just expensive hardware. You can accomplish 95% with a consumer grade desktop without all the extra power/heat/noise and dependencies on specific hardware.

You should buy both. Don’t mess around with VIP UAT.

Reolink might be another to consider.

OpenVAS is a vulnerability scanner that appears to be open source.

Metasploit is another that I think is free and might be open source.

True but it’s designed to be on networks that don’t have internet.

Tplink Omada doesn’t need a cloud connection. There’s plenty of other reasons to not like Omada but it’s something to consider. It’s also dirt cheap.

If any service has only username and password instead of mfa or password less then it’s not safe.

You also didn’t mention if you have automated patching or immutable backups enabled.

Even large streaming services drop their servers close to the users to make the experience good. They just do better at scaling.

You could federated authentication so only one ldap service is maintained. You could also sync media from one device to the other so you don’t need to manually update both.

Wait Cuba is a threat? Is it from the decades of economic depression enforced by the US?

Can’t read this wall of text

Desktop streaming isn’t the same as web apps.

Modern desktop streaming is quite impressive. 100ms, 5% loss is no problem for most tasks. You don’t even notice it, and as a result your experience can sometimes be better.

Additionally you can offload some tasks to the local machine where appropriate.

You dont need to fit every users needs into a thin client setup, but you could fit probably 50% of all users onto one and they wouldn’t know any different. Think of the energy savings. Think of all that plastic that goes into a desktop or laptop that isn’t needed in a virtualized blade chassis. Think of the rolling performance upgrades. Think of never having your hardware go End of Support. Think of the old equipment that ends up properly e-wasted instead of shoved into a dump. Think of the batteries that no longer need to get produced.

I might play around with this idea and host my own non-profit Desktop as a Service.

I’ll repeat what I said elsewhere:

Renting PCs is probably overall cheaper and a lot better for the environment. Most people don’t need a machine, they just need a thin client and something to access a few apps maybe 30 mins a day.

Even “power users” don’t need a machine.

If there were a non-profit or not-for-profit that was selling maybe an rpi we’d be saving a lot of money and reducing climate harm.

I just don’t trust bezos to not be greedy.

Run windows in a vm for work.

This plugged into a raspberry pi would be a cheap alternative to a true kvm appliance.

https://openterface.com/product/minikvm/

You don’t need a kvm for 5 systems, just one for the machine that doesn’t have vpro.