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  • WEI prevents ecosystem lock-in through hold-backs
    We had proposed a hold-back to prevent lock-in at the platform level. Essentially, some percentage of the time, say 5% or 10%, the WEI attestation would intentionally be omitted, and would look the same as if the user opted-out of WEI or the device is not supported.

    This is designed to prevent WEI from becoming “DRM for the web”.

    At least this acknowledges that this proposal would in fact be “DRM for the web” if the only thing from preventing it from being that is an additional measure unrelated to the core implementation.

    Not to mention, what prevents a future release of the feature either turning the percentage to 0% or removing the hold-back entirely?












  • I ended up going with a smaller Synology as it was actually replacing a RaspberryPi + External drive setup that was failing.

    At the end of the day, the Synology was much more expensive, but for me it was worth the trade-off to have a mostly plug and play setup. I can easily move files around in a GUI. I can setup torrents, even configure it to use a VPN and it all takes minutes instead of researching configurations and managing daemons and processes like I had to do previously.

    Edit: Also, don’t forget to take into account power consumption when reviewing options. There can be a big difference between running an old desktop 24/7 as a NAS versus a Raspberry Pi.