From my experience, just use it and make it seem appealing. Maybe send him mastadon stuff from time to time and he'll warm up to the idea. I mean I don't get what's too hard about it, it's kinda like email.
Yeah I agree, I set up a synology as a little summer project and I didn't want to go out and source parts and put a nas Linux distro to do everything myself. Synology is newbie friendly and kind of holds your hand to do everything even dynamic dns. However, if I were to get another nas, I would be more comfortable setting it up myself.
I mean I do have that case, and I don't think it fits in to any of my backpacks, I guess I need to take everything out of my backpack and then it will barely fit if I shove it in.
This is more like asking asking someone to shoot you in the head and then try to back out of it