Here is a picture of my Dads TP-Link KC401. I borrowed it to prove my point. It requires a Kasa home account. I tried signing up for one to see if it has any sort of RTSP I could hook up to, unfortunately I can’t even sign up for an account. I tried first with a temporary email, then my own domain, then I tried protonmail. It rejected all three. Doesnt seem very privacy friendly to me at all if I need an email provider like Google to even sign up to use the damn thing. I can’t find any sort of documentation online about these cameras having RTSP. In fact what I found was the opposite..

The github page you linked there, while being a great option for people who have already drank the koolaid, is not an ideal solution in any capacity. Per the readme.md

If your camera still works with integration: Block internet access of camera if you are using firmware build 230921 and higher

If your camera no longer works with integration: Block internet access and factory reset camera or Use older firmware than build 230921 and optionally factory reset camera

Meaning, they updated it to prevent you from using it. To use it now you have to hack your way around it and pray it doesn’t accidentally come back online. IP Cam =/= Internet Connected cam. IP Cam means I own the camera, and it doesnt have to phone home to the manufacturer for “updates” that take away functionality.

The catch is that you can’t use a tp link camera as an IP camera and anyone at their office could just tune into your home whenever they wanted.

Same thing here, all AMD/Wayland with no issues outside of the ones I cause :p

If you want Something you can set up and forget, use YUNOHOST, otherwise learn how to use docker containers and pick any server distro. Debian, Fedora Server, Ubuntu Server, MicroOS, hell OpenWrt will all do fine.

pay to become products* FTFY

I wish. no in school suspension

I would assume ISS, then regular suspension, then expulsion

People shit on Ubuntu because its owned by a for profit corporation that hosts an app manager that isnt open source on the backend. Not sure why you heard hate for mint, its perfectly fine. As a beginner I’d definitely go for Mint. If you Genuinely want to try but feel like you need someone to hold your hand, I can add you on Matrix (or discord… ugh) if you want a person to reference.

My old HS recently implemented an app to go to the bathroom. If you dont check out in the app you are written up. Source: my younger brother

Stop with the what-aboutisms because this is not the current situation.

And then no one will use Signal because there is no way someone won’t notice immediately. It is OPEN SOURCE. Look at the xz backdoor that got figured out in less than a day. Signal is more popular than a Linux tool for extracting files. Stupid statement.

Doesnt change the fact that Matrix is not a single company.

No, it isnt. Telegram is not E2EE even though they claim they are a private messenger.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor

educate yourself.

The fuck does that even mean?

Oh youre on a DIFFERENT HOMESERVER than ME?

Literal brainlet behavior. “I am the chad and you are the little virgin soyjack and little virgin soyjack is on lemmy.ml”

This is a very bad faith argument. It relies on assuming that “western government bad” without any basis of statement as to WHY youre claiming this. Would you say Twitter is good for privacy too then? It fits the same argument. The western governments are currently Trying to shut it down, the EU has threatened to shut off access completely. Is Twitter good for privacy because the western governments are trying to shut it down? No. Twitter is absolutely awful for privacy. On the same card, so is telegram. Telegram can not be publically audited. Their backend is closed source. You dont know what theyre doing with your data. For all you know, they took your phone number and sold it to a bail bondsman for when they see you talking about doing crimes on their platform. They could’ve sold any data you gave to them to anyone and you wouldnt be able to prove it because theres no way for you to personally audit them. You know what you can audit? Signal, XMPP, Matrix, fuck you could even audit OpenPGP over email. The argument you put fourth is completely bad faith and is full of holes.

Just because their technical backend let’s them?

Yes. They can VERY CLEARLY SEE that the platform is being misused. Signal can’t. Signal is genuinely clueless as to what you do on their platform. If you’re going to promote your service as “privacy respecting” and not mean it, you better count on any world government getting on your ass for not taking down CSAM material. The difference between being ignorant and being irresponsible is ignoring the issue after you’ve been made aware of it.

Terrible take, as as much as I hate to admit it, Meta doesnt have a “Monopoly”. An Oligopoly can be argued, but there are clear alternatives for all 4 of their big apps that are mainstream and used by millions. Signal, Telegram, Snapchat, Tiktok, Discord, Tumblr, Pinterest, the list can go on and on… Not to mention if we’re looking to “break a monopoly” we shouldnt be going to closed source bullshit to let someone else come in and make another monopoly. We know nothing of Telegrams back end. At least Signal has theirs open source.

Yeah I did, Ive been up a bit too long. I would think anyone on telegram doing piracy would move to signal, XMPP or matrix at this point though. (that is granted, there is still thousands of redditors just doing it out in the open so, maybe not)

Matrix spec is E2EE by default. Just because popular rooms turn it off does not mean Matrix is not encrypted. Frankly if a room is public, why does it need E2EE? A fed could join a 1k+ room all the same, encryption or not and just download the messages.