So the opposite must be true too right? When taxes go way up companies drop their prices to compensate because, according to you they only charge what consumers can pay. Except that doesn’t happen at all. Instead tariffs just caused prices to go way up without any intervention by corporations.

What complete nonsense.

Respectful dialogue tends to go further in the long run.

Ah yes, the failed “When they go low, we go high” rhetoric. Have you been in a coma for the past 10 years? Expecting respectful dialog from “Fuck Your Feelings” Magats is utterly stupid at this point.

It took a bit of effort and finding a really stable Linux distro on my hardware. For me that was Linux Mint.

Switching was made relatively easy by dual-booting and running Linux as much as possible while going back to Windows if I didn’t have time to figure something out. After few months of this I wasn’t using Windows at all and eventually deleted the partition.

Your assumptions are no longer accurate.

For one thing Lithium-ion batteries are becoming common in consumer UPS models including those from Cyberpower, Eaton, and APC.

There is no memory effect and they don’t need to be discharged and recharged regularly.

Similar to a mechanical device that wears out faster with heavy use, the depth of discharge (DoD) determines the cycle count of the battery. The smaller the discharge (low DoD), the longer the battery will last. If at all possible, avoid full discharges and charge the battery more often between uses. Partial discharge on Li-ion is fine. There is no memory and the battery does not need periodic full discharge cycles to prolong life. - https://www.batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-808-how-to-prolong-lithium-based-batteries/

The risk of fire is extremely low. For a high quality charge limited lithium ion battery in a controlled environment it is about the same as a UPS with lead acid batteries.

Your chance of being struck by lightning in the course of a lifetime is about 1 in 13,000. Lithium-ion batteries have a failure rate that is less than one in a million. The failure rate of a quality Li-ion cell is better than 1 in 10 million. https://www.batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-304a-safety-concerns-with-li-ion/

Battery swelling (not caused by manufacturing defects) is primarily caused by overcharging, deep-discharge, physical damage, and heat, none of which are problems for my server installation.

The risk of fire from parking your car in your garage is hundreds of times higher than using a laptop as a server.

After having my server fail to recover after a power failure while I was out of town for an extended period, I moved all important server apps to an relatively inexpensive (<$200) laptop.

The battery is firmware limited to a 70% charge which means it will last for years with no significant safety concerns. Even at a partial charge, Debian indicates 7 hours of run time when the power fails (I’ve had none longer than 4), and it’s unaffected by power blinks. It saves a bit of electricity too and costs $150 less per year to run than my old UPS alone.

It’s been running for nearly 2 years without a hitch.

If they erect their own statues they’ll end up being tagged just like his Hollywood star.

His grave will be closed to the public or guarded 24/7 to keep millions of Americans from doing the same.

There will be worldwide celebrations the likes of which haven’t been seen since the end of the 2nd World War.

Anyone get WiFi calling to work over Verizon’s network?

Running cables is not possible in lots of homes and there are plenty of wired cameras that send video to corporate clouds. The mistake is allowing those corporations access to those videos. Camera output should be encrypted and only usable for the camera owner unless they choose to opt in to the corporate spy network.

Booo!

Well done.

The cameras have no Internet access at all. Someone would need to be already inside my network for this vulnerability to be a problem.

Your prior comment was for newcomers?

"How is it encrypted, with what algorithm? was the alg implemented securely? who has the decryption keys? how were the keys generated? were they generated from a good enough entropy source? "

This was obviously written for people with quite a bit of knowledge. Most newcomers would have absolutely no idea what any of it means.

When people in a Lemmy technology community say “encryption” it should be obvious we’re referring to effective encryption, not a marketing claim on a product box.

Frigate is a marvel. Setting it up and tweaking it does take time but once done it requires almost no maintenance (at least in my experience) and is close to flawless. It’s only had 1 false alert in the last year and that was caused by a spiderweb on the camera. I wish all my applications were as trouble free.

No “they” involved in my case, my cameras are not connected to the Internet. Didn’t realize the prior focus comment was for cameras in general.

There’s no focus on my cameras, but they’re set not to detect people unless them come into zones near the house.

I have absolutely no problem using these kinds of devices.

I have an old phone and a generic Play account that I used for setup so the companies have nothing of consequence but my public IP address. Setup takes less than 15 minutes and after that all Internet access is completely blocked just like it would be if I unplugged my cable modem. There is no way for the cameras to override my router settings.

My smart TV is much more of a concern.

TP-Link (which are cheap but so unreliable I had to add smart switches to reset them when they stop working), Foscam and Dahua. Dahua is by far the best. All of them record to a local server running Home Assistant and Frigate.

Not always the case. Some cameras require a proprietary app for set up but can then be set to stream to a local server. Internet access can then be completely blocked with router settings.