Yeah, but it’s relatively expensive. It’s easier to have a friend willing to let you set up a pc on their network that your server backs up to. Even better if you can do the same for them.

Eh. We’ve always been unpaid. I guess now everyone is noticing because tech companies make billions off of our work.

That’s sad to see, but completely understandable. Basically, he’s not a sociopath, and people in his role are treated like sociopaths. I can definitely see how that would wear you down a lot. I hope he can stay strong through whatever hate he might receive over this, and I honestly wish him well. He and I see eye to eye on a lot of things, so I’ve always valued his direction in the fediverse.

Sure, but I’ve tried Frigate, and it’s not even close to Reolink in terms of ease of use. It was a giant pain in the ass to get it working to detect people in the camera. And even then, getting a push notification is something I couldn’t even figure out. And using it on a phone is really bad UX.

Oh ok. I was thinking wifi. Yeah, that’s strange that they won’t work with direct ethernet.

How would you connect them to your network? They have no inputs.

I would assume it’s based on TURN or STUN, since you don’t need to log in. What makes it suspicious?

Edit: I did some reading on their blog, and they only mention something like STUN and specifically say it’s only for connection, not for relaying, so I don’t think they use TURN. In that case, the camera is streaming video directly to your phone, so it sounds like it’s not ever passing through a ReoLink server. The benefit to ReoLink is they only have to run a STUN server, which is incredibly cheap (bandwidth wise), and the benefit to you is that the video never goes through anyone else’s server. The drawback is if you have a really restrictive firewall, or some funky address translation, you might not be able to establish a connection.

Reolink cameras are self-hosted. You don’t have to have an account in their app, and nothing is synced to the cloud. It’s all stored locally. They’re expensive cameras by comparison, but a. they’re really high quality, and b. they’re not subsidized by subscription fees.

I’ve never understood that. The plane leaves at the same time for everyone. Why hurry up to wait?

Then a payment method doesn’t need to have a payment.

I’d love to play Control for the first time again. Such an amazing game.

Also, to a lesser extent, I’d love to have my first scuba dive again. It felt so incredible to be in this other world, so close to ours, but so completely different. It still feels that way, but I’ve gotten more accustomed to it.

It literally does. Otherwise we would call it a fuselage seat.

I was like that for about 8 years after switching to Linux. Then I just started accepting most of the defaults. I have my fish configs and my tmux configs, and that’s about it.

Guns don’t kill people, dogs kill people.

Greatest font family ever. Both are like at least top five in their category in my opinion. I’d love to see a serif font from Canonical.

I use Valve’s Proton and don’t have this issue. That’s not it.

The parts of Nvidia’s drivers that they’ve released as open source are not enough to game on. You have to add additional code to actually be able to game, whether it’s community drivers or Nvidia’s drivers.

Yes, you need closed source Nvidia drivers. That’s a pretty heavily discussed topic. Basically, it’s because Nvidia refuses to open source their drivers. They’ve started open sourcing some components, which is nice, for sure, but not enough to game on. I buy AMD video cards specifically because they work really well on Linux without any work at all.

I’m surprised you’re seeing issues on Hogwarts Legacy though. My wife and I have been playing it over the last few months on two different machines both with Bazzite and haven’t had any issues at all. We don’t use Nvidia cards, so it might be an issue with Nvidia’s drivers.

You should check out Port87. :) You wouldn’t need to change any of your addresses if you bring your domain on. Custom domains is $10/month though, so it would cost you more. Hopefully the features would be worth it for you, and if not, you can always migrate it again to a different provider. That’s something I love about email. If you have your own domain, you can completely avoid vendor lock in.

That’s not the only thing it helps with. But you mentioned marketing, and that too is really necessary to build out a network of drivers.

Capital is also necessary to take the hit when there’s a dispute. If you can’t do that, people will have way less incentive to use your platform. It doesn’t matter if it’s open source at that point, people won’t care when they’re losing money.

I think the solution is a worker owned alternative, not just open source.

If you mean something like self hosted, it would be really easy, but no one would use it. Imagine you order a burrito and the guy just eats your burrito, and you can’t do anything about it. Or imagine you’re a driver and you deliver the food, then don’t get paid. You need a business in between to take the liability for anyone to trust it. It being open source wouldn’t really matter, because you need massive capital and infrastructure to make it work.