“Say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism, at least it’s an ethos.” - Walter, not wrong just an asshole

Also:

‘By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing…kill yourself….There’s no rationalisation for what you do and you are Satan’s little helpers.’ - Bill Hicks

2020, that was a 50/50 move

2020, the height of his first term incompetence at height of COVID, a year so comically bad it has specials about it? Nah, maybe 2016-2019 it would be maybe near that, any time after, not at all.

Have two Reolink doorbells in cart, battery powered and wifi (not ideal, but easy), thinking I’ll just add old HD to my router to use for recordings, and/or SD card.

For sure, that would be something just for fun, not main usage.

Nice, checked them out, look like really nice cams, leaning towards battery doorbells to not have to deal with any wiring. Would love to have PoE, but sounds like a lot of work!

Nice, use HA as well, leaning about 99% towards just getting a couple of their doorbell cams, one for each door, and calling it good.

BlueIris

Right on, never heard of it, will check it out for sure…thanks!

Have seen some camera projects with Pis that look fun, would def like to try some one day.

Really? Sorry, didn’t see any others going back weeks, you have a link to another I could check out?

Thanks, never heard of it, do have an old Wyze cam or two lying around too.

Thanks, looks cool, frigate certainly seems the way to go.

Reolink camera

Nice, had heard the name, but looking at their site, didn’t realize they had so many options, and no cloud requirement! Awesome, looking like the likely option, thanks!

Noted, good point, thanks!

I think that time period is about the one they’re shooting for to take us back to.

You’ll likely be amazed at how well it works, I’d take a 10 year old laptop with Debian+KDE over a brand new laptop with Win11, and it’s not close.

Realistic way is people just drop out of consumer economy to the fullest degree possible for them. Cancel all unnecessary subscriptions, shop local for only necessities. Look how quickly Disney blinked just because of a wave of cancellations, now do that everywhere.

Yes, this really isn’t difficult, or shouldn’t be, but Americans are incredibly addicted to convenience. I’ve been saying for years now that we don’t even need a general strike of workers not working, people simply need to stop being good little consumers for a while, only buy the essentials when necessary, cancel all extraneous services, stop using the fascists’ platforms. In a consumer economy, consumers hold the cards, but unfortunately we’ve been trained well and think we cannot live without 37 different streaming services and food and whatever else you want delivered to your door, and then need to post about it all on TwitFaceAgram after a post about corporate 'Merica run amok.

And if we’re not careful, the violent fascists are gonna get…violent!

Crazy, can’t believe I never heard about it.