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foggenbooty

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  • What are some product categories where the mainstream option IS the best option?

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  • I used to agree with you, but their prices have gone up and they've been transforming themselves into a high end lifestyle brand.

    My Charge is now almost 20 years old and still going strong, so I'm nit saying their products are bad, but I'm not seeing real innovation come out of them and I'd honestly say for most people a Wave clone is probably good enough. They're totally phoning it in on small tools as well, China is way ahead of them on design.

  • 'No One Should Have a Copyright on Vance Being Booed': Video From Olympics Blocked on X

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  • Yeah? Their specialised immigration police? Interesting, I didn't know that. /s

  • Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE

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  • I got a doorbell camera with full Home Assistant support and a 180 fisheye camera for around $100 each (don't remember the exact price). I could use the built in recording until i got my NVR setup and it scaled with me. I thought they were great value.

    Now, if you want just a bunch of standard cameras to cover your house with, maybe those other options are better, I'll save your post and take a look if I'm ever in the market. I'm not a camera expert, just a tech/home auto enthusiast so they work for what I want.

  • Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE

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  • Initial setup with Reolink is hit or miss. You're right that those settings are off by default, which sucks. The better cameras host their own WebUI with which you can login and make changes with no app required, but the cheaper ones cut that corner and need the app. With that said, yes it is an initial hoop you might have to jump through, but once done and isolated you'll never have to deal with it again. It's a worthy trade off for the affordability and featureset IMO, but of course it could always be better.

  • What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET

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  • Yeah, I understand the limitations of the frequency and the compromises mesh networks have to make. I wouldn't expect it to be an internet substitute. My point is, and I do apologise because I cannot remember the source, I recall hearing about a convention or a protest or some larger gathering where people tried to use Meshtastic and it cratered due to load.

    If that above case actually did happen and I'm not mis-remembering, then it doesn't bode well for adoption by the non-tech savvy. You get into this odd area where you have tech and RF hobbiests that think this is cool beans, but they don't make up enough people for a robust network. However the more people you bring on that don't understand radio settings the more succeptible you are to poor performance. Then if it ever does it mass adoption it is likely oitside the abilities of the tech and scale just isn't possible. You need this sweet spot.

    With ham or something else you can have a few people in more remote locations because of superior range, but with low powered RF like Meshtastic you really want portable devices for people on the ground. All this is to say I love the idea of being able to give something like this to a loved one going to a protest or something, but I'm just not sure if it's more than a toy yet.

    I'm not sure what they could do to keep this open while ensuring stability unless they start to add dynamic settings to tje protocol. Something that detects if there's too much congestion, or if signals are too strong to automatically switch from LongFast to something more applicable to a the dense group you're in. Then manual settings get hidden behind an advanced menu? But that would be entirely on tje firmware to control.

    Anyway, I'm rambling and trying to solution without actually owning one, so I could be way off. I just really like the idea of short range personal communication and want this to be more than a tinker tech.

  • Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy

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  • Do you need the doorbell hardware itself to be open source? Or just compatible with self hosted open source software?

    If just the latter take a look at Reolink products. You can block their internet access and they still work great locally with Home Assistant and whatever NVR you want. DoorBird and a few others have HA support as well.

  • Jensen Huang says relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has "done a lot of damage"

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  • Leave him alone, he hasn't even crossed the $200,000,000,000 threshold. He's basically a poor. Can only afford one jacket :(

  • What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET

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  • How resilient is something like Meshtastic? My understanding is that anyone can configure their device poorly so that it can become overly chatty, congesting the network. Even in ideal an ideal scenario with properly configured nodes, could this actually survive if it saw more than hobbiest adoption?

    I think it's really cool and i like having this idea of a backup communication system, but if has serious range limitations and is likely to be overwhelmed in a no-cell scenario is it even worth it, or is it just fun to play around with?

  • What are your technology mispredictions?

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  • I don't know if I'd sat left to rot. I still use it almost every other day, and Google is working on a version for the Pixel phones as well.

    I think the Moto Atrix and Dex were probably a bit ahead of their time, but likely going to make a comeback soon.

  • Musk’s Grok AI Generated Thousands of Undressed Images Per Hour on X

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  • Every new law changes the rules of the game. Every new rule presents an opportunity to those who can circumvent it.

    The wealthy have always succeded by gaming the system.

  • Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto?

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  • In the car manufacturers mind, these are all uncommon issues because you should be using cloud services for everything.

  • Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices

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  • Nor would I, but if apps were actually optimized instead of the Electron nonsense we have now we'd be in a better place. I really hope this forces us to finally build better again instead of relying on infinite resources.

  • Nvidia plans heavy cuts to GPU supply in early 2026

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  • That's still of no concern. If it all collapses and they need to start selling to consumers again, gamers will be desperate for the upgrade and pay top dollar. Screwing us over is a win-win for them.

  • Nvidia plans heavy cuts to GPU supply in early 2026

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  • Sure, but AMD never undercuts enough for it to matter. They're always behind on features, brand recognition, software and say... eh $50 off.

    The last time AMD actually undercut and sold well was the RX480 and that was a long time ago. AMD has just settled for 10% and is not willing to fight for more, and with enterprise being the big market now it's definitely not going to change.

  • LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash

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  • That workaround is slowly coming to an end as these devices start making DNS requests using DOH, which you will not be able to redirect, and will be much harder to detect and block.

    The cat and mouse game of having a piece of technology you bought work with your interests in mind continues...

  • Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out

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  • AI is just soooo fucking expensive. Silicon Valley has made burning cash up front a standard practice, but the amount they're burning is just astronomical. There is going to be a demand for profits, or the path to profits, much sooner than usual.

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    Why is socialization so hard in the 2020s?

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  • All the ones I mentioned? It's not tied to your real identity or IRL friend/social circles.

    In your example sure, Lemmy uses the community to vote things up or down to assist in curation, but I don't look at WHO voted things up or down (I know the data is technically available). And the logins/profiles are random names to me, I don't know or have relationships with any of these people, so again they are meaningless. This is why it feels like a platform, but not social media. We used web forums and bullitenboards before the word "social media" was coined and we see big differences between tbe two today.

    So while I agree Lemmy has social elements, it's used completely differently then something like Facebook. YouTube has all those elements as well, but I use it to watch infotainment/explainers etc. I have Nebula as well which has none of the social elements and it feels identical because I don't use any of them.

    I guess the difference is are the social elements intregal to the platform, or tacked on and optional, and what kind of weight do they have.

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    Why is socialization so hard in the 2020s?

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  • I don't really consider Lemmy to be social media, nor do I YouTube. I suppose that's against the norm, but I don't comment on either too often, and when I do it doesn't replace conversations with my friends. I also don't pay attention to people's usernames (apart from blocking Tankies) or expect to build any relationship. They are just news/current events/video sources.

    I don't deny they have social elements built in, but social media to me was something like Facebook where you had your real name and real friends following you and you posted about yourself anf each others lives. Maybe that's Social Media and this is Social Media Lite?

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    Stop cramming everything onto one Pi: treat your home lab like a tiny ISP - hardware, stack, backups and an update plan

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  • The built in GPU of any sem-modern Intel CPU can do that for you no problem. Probably even the older ones in those corporate computers. Just check for QuickSync support. If you want something seriously low wattage that can still do one or two 4K streams, get one of those mini PCs with an Intel N100 for cheap.