I’m a software engineer, so that tracks.

I’d never really connected my lack of a mind’s eye with my inability to follow unnamed characters through a movie until you just said that. 🤯

I’m probably about a 4, maybe 3.5, on this scale. It kinda sucks not having any idea what it’s like to actually be able to visualize things, so I don’t even really know what I’m missing.

Reduce the number of single failure points. How you choose to do that is up to you and what you can afford.

Nextcloud is pretty slow in general, but what you’re describing sounds unusual.

For one thing, Nextcloud is written in PHP, so it sets up and tears down its environment for every single request. But PHP has drastically improved over the years, so it’s not that far behind something like Node.

Facebook was originally written in PHP for the Zend engine, and since it was so slow, they forked (or more accurately, reimplemented) it to make HHVM.

Nextcloud still runs on the Zend engine.

Pretty easy. You can use a VPN if you want super secure access. I just use rsync over SSH.

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.

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.

Because humans will put tits on anything. I watched a movie about sentient cockroaches, and the girl cockroaches all had tits.

Joe Wilkins clearly has a thing for robots.

I mean, take off the fans and heat sink. Let me see her bare circuits.

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.

A non-insignificant portion of my life has been spent enjoying code that she wrote and games that she developed. Rest in peace.

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.

That’s the ugliest purse I’ve ever seen.

Yes, but that’s a different sale. My point is it can still be considered a loss leader if they sell it at cost. It took them many millions to develop it, so overall they would be losing money on the hardware sales.

That’s as opposed to something like Costco’s hot dogs. There was no R&D there, so if they sold it at cost, I wouldn’t consider it a loss leader.

Even if they sell at cost, they’re losing money because of the R&D costs.

Call it the Steam Iron.