I’ve mostly seen YouTube ads so not sure how to share those here. I happened to get another postcard today though, with the exact same wording is the one I linked to elsewhere in this thread:
If you look at votingmatters.org it says:
Paid for by the Democratic National Committee (202) 863-8000
This communication is not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee.
This is the first clearly partisan one I’ve seen.
Mostly I’ve seen them as videos that plainly state. “Who you vote for is secret. Whether you vote is public record”. I did get one handwritten postcard saying the same.
I found them mostly “interesting” as a concept, but others have felt they’re threatening:
The first one I saw I looked up the “Paid for by…” entity and it was a Kamala PAC so I just kinda assumed they all were before seeing this.
Both parties are running these style ads in my area.
This is BY FAR the creepiest iteration I’ve seen.
Then there is QNAP. Apparently their system QTS is not as polished as DSM, but everything needed should still be there. There’s similarly priced, similarly equipped TS-462. It’s just dual-core CPU, but has more RAM (not upgradeable though) and it seems it can accept M.2 as storage at least. As per internet research, the build quality is just as good as Synology.
I have the QNAP TS-462. It’s my first and only NAS so I don’t have any points of comparison for you. Feel free to ask any questions you have and I can try and answer for you.
I do want to point out that the RAM is upgradable, but, unintuitively, only on the smaller 4GB RAM SKU; the 8GB RAM SKU has the memory soldered on.
I learned this the hard way and had to return the first one that arrived, but I currently have the memory maxed out at 16GB.
I’d start with Backblaze’s 2023 drive report
Every message I have received on my iPhone from someone not in my contacts has this after that latest message:
To be honest, I’d rather have the lorum ipsum than the AI generated trash that’s gotten so prolific.
This way I can tell it’s BS immediately instead of 2-4 sentences in.
LI > AI
They’re pretty hard. I wouldn’t want to try to bite through a double thick one personally.
Etienne Constable, from Seaside, California, was told in July last year by local government officials that he had to build a 6-foot fence to hide the boat from view of his neighbors.
Good thing the
homeowner associationlocal government had some common sense here. /S
FTFY
They’re just leaning really hard into the “Escapism” theme.
The question is why is the theme escapism?
I finally caught another of the YouTube ads and it was paid for by futureforwardusa.org.
The message, again, was very generic with friendly animation and cheery music. The message was the same. “Your vote is private; whether you vote is public” with the addition of “make a plan to vote”.