Oh good. For a second I was worried

It’s the building on the right? It looks bigger than the actual White House

LGTM!

Got it. So I should write my own SQL database?

If you have a NAS setup already, you might be DIY enough to setup something cheaper. Ubiquiti has been nice because it’s self hosted, but without having to do much work yourself. You buy the box that runs the software, the cameras, plug it in, and it just works. You pay a premium for that, but there are no monthly fees.

I have:

• Cloud Gateway Max. This is both the router and the NVR. I bought it for $200 with no bundled SSD. Instead I bought a separate nvme SSD and slotted it into the cloud gateway max.
• U7 Wall Pro. My apartment is small enough that I only need a single WiFi access point. This one supports WiFi 7.
• G4 Doorbell Pro (WiFi addition). Excellent quality, and records directly to the SSD I installed in the cloud gateway max

What I may have done differently.

• I would have considered the Cloud Gateway Fiber instead of the Cloud Gateway Max. The Max doesn’t have any POE outputs, so you need a POE injector to power the U7 Wall Pro. The Cloud Gateway Fiber however has a single POE port out. But I’m not sure that’s worth an extra $70 when you can get a POE injector for cheap.
• If you can run Ethernet to your door, the G4 Doorbell Pro wired will have a more stable connection. Though my WiFi version has been running very well.

If you want more than 2 cameras, or you have a house instead of an apartment, you might want to consider one of their dedicated NVRs, and either multiple U7 Wall Pros, or one of their bigger WiFi access points. You can spend a lot of money on ubiquity quickly, but I don’t think you should write off their entry level equipment because of that. I’m very happy with the ~$700 I spend on my small setup, and that setup will have plenty of headroom for years. And if you buy used or older models I bet you can get a router, access point, and doorbell for under $400. Or incrementally upgrade what you have.

Ubiquiti. Their cameras record to a local NVR. If you only need one or two cameras, they have excellent router + NVR combos for a good price that will run circles around your default ISP WiFi router. If you’re interested, I can tell you what my setup looks like, how much it cost, and what I would have done differently.

99.999999% if Lemmy users hate iPhone but think Android is safe. The other 0.000001% use a Linux phone.

I know Apple isn’t popular with Lemmy users, but Apple Music feels like more of a safe home for that reason. Apple’s business model is very established, unlike Tidal which could change rapidly with an IPO. At the end of the day, nothing is safe that isn’t self hosted, but there are only so many hours in the day to self host services.

I know Apple Music isn’t much better, but I think I can convince some of my Spotify friends to make the switch with this article. I could also be convinced to switch to Tidal. I think they pay more royalties per stream than Apple Music, and Apple Music pays more than Spotify (correct me if I’m wrong).

Again, I know Apple Music probably also has issues, but Apple doesn’t seem to be in the business of selling your data… yet. They also have less bloat (e.g. no AI DJ) compared to Spotify. However, I’m not happy about Tim Cook sucking up to Trump.

Jellyfin, and similar makes a lot of sense for movies, but imo, music is released too frequently to maintain an up to date library. I do buy physical copies of my favorite albums, but streaming is really nice for music discovery.

Arguably the first branch is backwards. I don’t use windows because I fear technology and strongly distrust Microsoft.

Probably in 2025, we at Meta, as well as the other companies that are basically working on this, are going to have an AI that can effectively be a sort of midlevel engineer that you have at your company that can write code.

~ Mark Zuckerberg, Jan 2025 (source)

Wheezing orange man

It’s GNot/Linux

1000% terrifs on Lemmy comments federated from other countries, because DougHolland made fun of me, Mr trump

If you have a kindle you can hack it and load PDFs onto it. The koreader is better anyway.

I didn’t like Jimmy Kimmel but now I do lol

I don’t think this will work within the context of a feed of posts. You would have to make at least 1 additional comment for every post in the feed to fetch the comments for a post. So if you fetch a feed of 50 posts, you will have to make 51 requests. If a post has too many comments to fetch in one page, you will have to iterate through all the pages until you have all the comments. So it’s actually >=51 requests. Though I suspect you could get a good idea of a posts comments by fetching just the first page of comments.

PieFed seems to have tags, but I’m not exactly sure how they work. But that might be a better place to start.

But where do you store the computed tag? I guess you could hack it by having a bot that comments the computed post tags on the post itself, but that’s messy.

There are also many Lemmy instances that are intentionally blocking VPNs because they have to to stay afloat.