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After all these years in systems, I’m always finding that I’ve already done a lot of the work I need to do.

It’s a nice surprise when you’re dreading some work to find out that past you already did it for you.

Does make me a little suspicious of what I might find next though. 😳

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#Synology upcoming Plus Series #NAS #storage #systems will restrict full functionality to users who install the company's self-branded hard drives. While third-party drives will still work for basic storage, critical features including drive health monitoring, volume-wide deduplication, lifespan analysis, and automatic firmware updates will be disabled tomshardware.com/pc-components

Tom's Hardware · Synology requires self-branded drives for some consumer NAS systems, drops full functionality and support for third-party HDDsBy Jowi Morales

The thing about "features" is that they aren't linear, they form a tree: *every* technical artifact--hell, every *line* of code--both satisfies some demands and (often) creates new ones.

Deciding which branches to follow, which to prune and when to do both is complex and ever-changing as the delivery system cycles demands...

Much of what's wrong with "product thinking" and "agile" today can be explained as a consequence of placing this responsibility in the hands of folks that neither understand this, nor are accountable to those who do.