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  • What are some things for a new home owner to consider getting early on?

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  • I am fairly militant about privacy and data security so I go POE and self hosted. My cameras are all wired and sync to a server in my basement. I trust no corporations.

    That said the cameras I have are reolink. They do have options for WiFi cameras that use apps and such but I don’t use this. You can also use the app with the POE camera but I don’t do this.

    I have the cameras on an isolated lan with no internet access. All of my smart home stuff is like this. If it doesn’t work on an isolated vlan then it is useless to me and I won’t buy it. I then forward the rtsp stream from the cameras to homeassistant which has tailscale so I can view the cameras remotely.

    At one point I used homebridge in homeassistant so I could view everything in homekit but I finally convinced my partner to just use the homeassistant app and leave apple nonsense behind. That said if you’re less paranoid than me this works too and gives you remote access without the bother of tailscale (but the downside of funneling it all through apple).

    Of course, if you research and trust reolinks app then using that is the easiest thing. I haven’t done that tho. I believe amcrest cameras are also good but these are also primarily POE

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  • So I personally will forever be on the side of “fuck eufy and I hope they fail miserably” for several reasons:

    they initial sold their cameras with the guarantee of no cloud integration. When users found that even if you had it set to be local only it still uploaded thumbnails of every persons face with a “name” attached to an aws server and that portions of camera streams could be viewed remotely without encryption, suggesting that all of this data was being transmitted without encryption. When called out on this eufy doubled down and said it was incorrect. When proven wrong they offered 0 recourse for pissed off customers who purchased it specifically because of their promises that it was “no cloud integration”, their only response was to silently remove references to “no cloud integration” and “military grade encryption” from their website and marketing materials.

    This led to a 450,000 dollar settlement earlier this year based on an investigation from the NYAG that found “eufy’s Internet-connected security cameras, video doorbells and smart locks did not fully encrypt video data in transit, despite company assurances that consumer footage would remain private and secure.”

    Scumbag company. Fuck eufy.

  • What are some things for a new home owner to consider getting early on?

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  • Don’t bother buying stuff you “think” you’ll need except for a drill. Buy stuff beyond that as needed.

    Depending on where you live get to know the deal spots around you: pawn shops, Craigslist, fb marketplace, ebay, etc. tools are frequently resold for fairly cheap especially if you ever desire stuff that’s a pain in the ass to ship/move like ladders/table saws/miter box/etc.

    Brand doesn’t matter regardless of what internet dorks say for the most part but picking an ecosystem means you won’t have 90 different batteries hanging around. Keep in mind with some manufacturers there a sub lines with different batteries (eg ryobi has a battery whereas Makita has 3 different battery types).

    Don’t buy Milwaukee. Dogshit tools that work okay until they don’t. Makita, ryobi, dewalt, Bosch, metabo, etc are generally repairable. Makita is my go to because you can generally buy parts (though sometimes cost prohibitive tbf), dewalt too but dewalt is pricier. Milwaukee though tends to have these proprietary pcbs with microcontrollers in everything for some reason that inevitably fail and cannot be purchased so once they fail the $350 tool you just got is junk. Whereas https://www.ereplacementparts.com/makita-parts-c-97.html? And https://www.toolservicenet.com/b2b/dewalt/en//Dewalt/OUTDOOR//p/DCCS623B sells actual oem parts

    Harbor freight stuff is fine too especially if you’re not going to use it much (or even if you are, my palm sander is from there and I’ve used that for hundreds of hours. Had to change the brushes but otherwise fine).

    Hope you know how to patch drywall.

    If you want something like cameras that’s like a whole thing. IMO that’s where you should head over to selfhosted. Easy mode is get some WiFi cameras from whoever like eufy and slap them on your house but then you trade away privacy (uploads to their cloud servers and literally every company has had at least one “security whoopsie”) and connection stability (WiFi connection will inherently drop out several times a week/day/hour depending on your setup/congestion in your area. You go to check the camera and it’s always unavailable when you need it). You also have to either add solar panels to them or recharge them every few months. But this is generally what people do because it’s cheaper and easier

    Alternatively you can get power over Ethernet cameras that have much more reliable connectivity and are more likely to run locally (eg record to hardware in your home, either an NVR or a server you make). Downsides here are more expensive (not subsidized by being able to sell your data + the cost of the nvr/server), needing to run Ethernet drops to wherever you want cameras, having to figure out something like tailscale if you want to view cameras remotely and truly don’t want any cloud involved

  • US Wants Judge to Break Up Google, Force Sale of Chrome: Here's What to Know

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  • Separate the media portions of these companies as well; apple and amazon music, tv, streaming into separate entities.

    Don’t simply allow them to be purchased by another huge conglomerate or corporation like perplexity or openai, split them into their own entities. Stop companies purchasing each other to avoid this mess from repeating and avoid monopolies

    Or just nationalize these companies. Trump already started the process with intel

  • Kuo reiterates Touch ID in the iPhone Fold; unlikely to be in-display

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  • Faceid with mask relies even further on id of eye region so if you wear glasses, especially thick ones that tend to distort light, it sucks.

    Same thing if you use the phone for virtual avatar tracking/vtuber stuff. If you wear glasses, especially thick ones, you have to play with the eye tracking sensitivity and usually turn it way down or it will think your eyes are closed most of the time.

    From what I’ve read online it seems people who don’t wear glasses also have trouble but it’s hard to say whether that’s genuinely a defect, user error, configuration issue, etc as literally any feature change made by any tech company will have a bunch of threads with people griping about how it sucks tbf.

    Also there’s the inherent stupidity that they made a touch less unlock to replace fingerprinting that is slower and still requires you to touch the phone to unlock it, except now you have to touch it in a more obtrusive way (swipe up). iphone 8 you could literally pick up the phone by the home button and it was almost guaranteed to be unlocked by the time you brought it to your face

  • Kuo reiterates Touch ID in the iPhone Fold; unlikely to be in-display

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  • Faceid sucks if you have any kind of mask. if you are nearsighted and tend to hold the phone closer than the camera expects it flat out doesn’t work. It’s slower than touchid. It was absolutely stupid for them to completely remove the fingerprint sensor and it’s stupid that they added a new button that’s touch sensitive but somehow isn’t a fingerprint reader.

    It also absolutely requires additional hardware. the truedepth camera system, which is actually a series of lasers and sensors:

    but tbf it’s thanks to that hardware that we have vtubers so that worked out. love me some korone

  • We are stopping shipments to the US - Kiwix

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  • There are many good things about this, American consumerism is out of control

    We discuss climate change and how “companies are the worst offenders” but what drives those companies? American consumerism

    Importing fast fashion, cheap plastic bullshit, other nonsense in plastic packaging, etc (much of it produced in countries that still utilize very dirty fossil fuel chains) ultimately funds and drives significant demand to keep it going and expand.

    Also puts huge demand on fuel for international shipping of dumb bullshit.

    Next thing to do would be to further reduce fuel demands by limiting air travel and consumer fuel usage but Trump isn’t going to invest in public transport, obviously. This is only a byproduct of his idiocy. After that would be to address concrete and other building material demand/suburban sprawl. Although the time to do this was 20 years ago

  • We are stopping shipments to the US - Kiwix

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  • It ended 8/29

    No more Lego pick a brick! Way more money for temu bullshit, if they even still ship here! Etc

    This is where American consumerism will really start to feel the squeeze. The prices of all that stuff had gone up because of tariffs related to manufacturing costs but now direct tariffs on shipments will either block it or cost consumers.

  • Interesting theory

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  • It’s more about did you have parents who were reasonably well educated and affluent tbh

  • Newsom launches statewide task force to clear homeless encampments

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  • Because he loves money and power and the people who give him money and power hate the poor

  • I'm gonna try it

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  • Altoids can also work if you want something more reasonable

  • Newsom launches statewide task force to clear homeless encampments

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  • “He could be a rock star if he hid who he was briefly to win the election then went back to serving corporate interests, souring people on the democratic side even more and sending them to the republicans or to not voting at all”

    Like listen to yourself. You sound like the victim of domestic abuse. “It’s going to be different this time!”. He’s not going to change honey, you gotta leave and find someone that’s actually good for you

  • Newsom launches statewide task force to clear homeless encampments

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  • He’s been “doing this” for years dude. He dresses it up with fancy language but homeless camp sweeps have been happening in CA for a long time and have been ordered by him through executive order, driven by his rich NIMBY donors.

    https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/07/25/governor-newsom-orders-state-agencies-to-address-encampments-in-their-communities-with-urgency-and-dignity/

    Despite surveys in 2023 showing sweeps resulted in police citations as of often as offers for housing he continued with criminalizing homelessness, encouraging local governments to create anti camping ordinances in 2024 (aka criminalizing homelessness)

    https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-12-14/homeless-camp-sweeps-result-in-police-citations-as-often-as-housing-offers-survey-finds

    Flip sides of the same coin. He can play the part because he is basically trump with decorum and slightly different masters. Trump sold out to the extreme right white nationalist fascist crowd, Newsom sold out to the corporate world fascist crowd. If Silicon Valley decides that lgbt support is bad for business Newsom will flip flop (see his appearance on the charlie kirk podcast, testing the waters). He will always back things that fuck over workers and benefit the corporate class.

    vote blue no matter who though. Unless it’s someone from the dsa or psl that actually represents your interests of course, then of course the democrat leadership can’t possibly endorse the candidate and will split the vote because they’d rather potentially hand the election to a republican than give you a candidate that serves your interests instead of their donors. But remember, if you don’t vote for them you’re a fucking tankie piece of shit

  • Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner

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    1. Seems like it did okay for many years before selling to private equity that absolutely destroyed the site and filled it with obtrusive advertising
    2. There’s probably a middle ground between a project like lemmy (for example) and whatever imgur has become

  • Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner

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  • The equity firms that own places like this with tens of millions of users or more know that they will ultimately win simply because of inertia and momentum. It’s fucked because they’re preying on people’s sense of community and shit but that’s the world we live in now, you have to be ready to bail in the places you hang out online at a moments notice because at any moment some rich dick could be like “hmm, this could be a good performer in my portfolio, let’s get some intrusive advertising on there and cut services drastically”

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  • He’s really committing to the bit with going on right wing podcasts and saying anti trans rhetoric. He even got on trumps “criminalize homelessness” bullshit like a full year before trump was re-elected, that’s crazy good acting

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  • “I changed my facebook profile picture” level fighting back except you pay for it

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  • Don’t get what?

  • Cracker Barrel will go back to old logo after conservative backlash

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  • They had some lgbt hires and dei stuff a few years ago and the ceo and is a woman so the new logo is clearly the end result of all that woke (reading: anything not catering to straight white males) nonsense