^ perfect answer, IMO.

Being internally happy and content.

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Stuff like that

I’d rather have the $299 assassination attempt.

In my experience pretty much all IP cameras phone home in some way at some point, so yeah, you are best off putting them on a separate VLAN and routing appropriately.

The only brand I’ve had a good experience with is Reolink. I don’t think the quality is appreciably different than a brand like Hikvision and the firmware and support is vastly superior.

Edit: Some good info on using Reolink cameras with Frigate. I use Blue Iris but would vastly prefer OSS.

So it doesn’t bother you there are only two choices every four years?

Of course it bothers me. Which is why I donate to and help with the campaigns for progressive candidates. But our political system is not going to change any time soon and throwing up your hands because the choices aren’t perfect is counter-productive. If you do that, you end up with LESS choice. By voting and voting consistently you open the door, even if it’s just a crack, for more progressive choices. By not voting you ensure that we continue to be stuck with two bad choices.

Real progress has been made. And the real enemy of that progress is apathy.

the ballot is one big trick question.

It really isn’t. It does require some basic engagement and research. Maybe 10-15 minutes max if you don’t care to get too in-depth. You can always skip ballot measures - they are more time-consuming, for sure.

You should stamp your feet. If nothing else it will undoubtedly make you feel better.

My state only does mail-in (AFAIK) and I don’t have a stable address.

Which state? I find it hard to believe this is a thing.

Don’t.

yes, not even dial up (i think)

Apparently some still do exist. 56 KBps… woohoo.

That literally is, it’s called Oneweb. SpaceX even launch their satellites rather amusingly.

You need to correct your post. As has been pointed out, Oneweb is not available for residential use. You simply cannot order it. The best you could do is go in with neighbors and set up community broadband. They don’t publish prices but I read somewhere that you are looking at $1500 per month or more.

No starlink alternative

Of course you get downvoted. Because people don’t know. Let me try to help educate y’all.

In many rural areas in the US there is NO (as in zero, nada, zilch) cable, DSL or even mobile/LTE. Nothing. I know because I live in one of those areas. So your internet options are:

1. Read books and talk to people
2. A traditional satellite provider like Hughesnet or Viasat, where you’ll have 10 GB daytime MONTHLY quotas, 800ms latency and extremely poor service.
3. Twiddle your thumbs and call it twidder.

Until Starlink came along I could not work remotely, stream any content or game. Despite being usually 20 MBps down, Hughesnet was so high latency that page loads were usually 10-20 seconds or more. A lot of things that had short timeouts simply didn’t work. So yeah, I self-flaggilate every time I pay the bill but Starlink has allowed us to have a normal internet life.

So you give up pretending Biden has any other accomplishments?

Not at all. I gave up pretending you had anything of substance to say.

We are fucked as a country but I’ll be fine.

Exactly.

No really I’m happy for you. Might want to read up on actual policies and accomplishments, but whatevs.

Good luck under Trump.

Horse shit.

To the point where it’s clear it’s a waste of time to list all the things the Biden admin has accomplished or all the good policies they stand for. You would just claim they are not important or didn’t happen to the same degree.

But truly I’m happy for you that you are in a position to be able to think only the macro level and ignore all the real positive change because it just doesn’t affect you. Congrats.

MAGA agenda is gonna happen under Biden too.

I don’t know what level of ignorance you need to have to believe this but clearly you have achieved it!

The same as if Biden wins. I don’t think the office of president is going to meaningfully change my life. It did not the last 8 years either.

Congrats on your life of comfortable privilege. I’m happy for you that you need not worry about the MAGA agenda.

Wart Under