I have used an ARM Synology NAS but found it highly inadequate for running services ... or anything but basic storage, really. Only the x86 models support runn

I have used an ARM Synology NAS but found it highly inadequate for running services ... or anything but basic storage, really. Only the x86 models support running Linux containers, packaging an application for Synology didn't exactly seem easy to to and the UI is almost unusably sluggish and has super confusing UX (it emulates a desktop environment in the browser ... right, very cool). Running an own standard Linux-based NAS is more effort, but not terribly so. The additional flexibility may be worth it: It makes it quite painless to integrate with other data sources and sinks for backups and stuff and can run a lot of personal services (home automation, budgeting tool, IRC bouncer ...).