That’s not exactly true, synology doesn’t do anything you can’t access from an off the shelf linux (it’s your usual mdraid and btrfs). But you better know what you’re doing if you go that route.

Conduit is in no way compact either. I tuned its caches because two gigs of ram seemed ridiculous for a single-user instance but I only got the mobile client sync lag as a result.

XMPP used to be so much nicer…