Old man (me) wants local storage

Its 2050, local drives are outlawed. All devices have no writable storage and only a read only memory containing the basic os needed to connect to "the cloud". In order to use your device, you need to pay a monthly subscription, to save your files, you need to pay a even higher subscription depending on your storage desires. If your cloud account has "undesirable" content, it is removed from your account without warning. If you stop paying your subscription, all data is immediately removed. All content you want to see is temporarily loaded to ram and is purged after you consume it. Ads require detection of your eyes looking at the display to progress. Biometric verification is required to use your device and any given device is tied to a person's identity, can only be used by that person, and must be surrendered when no longer wanted. Welcome to the future!
- "PLEASE DRINK VERIFICATION CAN TO CONTINUE"
  
  You took the words out of my mouth, lol.
- I'm honestly sad reading this because there's an actual very real chance some of these come true, and probably way before 2050 lol.
- Of course, no local encryption of data. The Cloud will keep all your data safe for you!
- Literally 1984
- Prob overshot the date by about 25 years.
- I have made a decentralized storage protocol, and an implementation for it, anyone interested in checking it out?
  I'm terrible at promoting things, but it's FOSS and encrypted and quite takedown safe.
  You can publish a website with it for example (update it as you like), or build a chat app onto it (I have an example), people with the "link" file can access it, nobody else can.
  Hopefully a first step in sharing information freely.
  Cheers
  Valmond
- Looks like the script for a Black Mirror episode

I got a Synology NAS recently and it’s super nice…has a photo app, can be used as a VPN, you can even run docker images on it and run things like Pi Hole, etc. Really nice to have.
- I also run all of those things, plus the Plex server.
  It’s like a magic little box you keep finding new tricks for.
  I also upgraded its ram, use port trunking (both network connections) and put some cache SSD sticks in it. Not because I needed to, but because you can!
- Neat! Do all of their devices work that way or just the more expensive ones?
  
  I have a relatively “old” model, DS418. Docker is prolly the only thing it is marginal on, depending on what you’re running there exactly.
- And you can set up a folder where you just paste torrents and it takes care of downloading your favourite OS or other interesting file.
- you can even run docker images on it
  Depending on the model ;)
  
  You can still install “unsupported” on the ones that don’t support it officially: https://archive.synology.com/download/Package/Docker/20.10.3-1233
  That being said it is indeed marginal on mine…CPU usage is often quite high.

There is no cloud, only someone elses computer.

Wdym you don't want to pay billion dollar companies to keep your data hostage

I built my own cloud with blackjack and hookers

Too dumb to set up nextcloud, first I bought a WD NAS which I kinda stopped using because of slow transfer speeds and a hacking attack that put the service down for days. Currently using three physical HD (two at home and one in my locker at work) all with the same copy of a Veracrypt container. Never been happier tbh.

Local storage is great for you.
It's absolutely fucking terrible for end users that you have to support.

got me a 14 TB WD Easystore off eBay for $250 a few months ago.

UnRaid is a great choice for this and will run on virtually any x86 hardware.