Remember the porn networks that tried to get you to download their software to connect, and then it ended up being a dialer to a 900 number?

I guess you’re too young to remember the good old days of dogpile searching on four engines within one page.

I know that they started a lot of philanthropic corporate efforts and encourage companies they work with to follow suit. Their CEO has also been vocal on LGBTQ+, abortion, and gender pay gap issues.

Salesforce as a company ranks as one of the good ones, at least so far.

It’s a low friction way to set up a home server with NAS and docker containers. The “Unraid” portion is the configuration that lets you set up an “array” with parity drive(s), but without striping so each disk has a complete filesystem and files accessible even when removed from the array. Everything can be managed through a web UI, and there’s a robust “app store” of docker containers.

The downside is that it’s not free, and they recently moved towards monthly/yearly licensing and increased the cost of new lifetime licenses.

My basement is already half full of my inlaw’s crap.

I ended up taking my unsupported computer and turned it into an Unraid server. Bought some refurb enterprise drives on eBay to get it set up, and now I have an awesome home media server/NAS.

One could argue they still haven’t

And then it gets blamed every time something doesn’t work right with the internet