My experience is that people are conditioned these days to do everything by subscription, even when it provides no additional value.

I’m imagining a series of signs I could walk in front of the cameras….

Reolink doorbells allow you to configure them how you want; you can use a cloud-hosted feed, cloud-hosted notification only, self-hosted feed, self-hosted notification only, and write-to-microSD only. They can use WiFi or wired Ethernet.

I have mine set to do cloud push for notifications, RTSP to my internal home server only; so I log in via VPN if I want to see the video.

A CCTV setup likely won’t work for people who just want a video doorbell.

But replacing a Ring with something like a Reolink means they can start with the same service, and over time move to RTSP and a local server as they become more aware of privacy implications and are driven to invest in a contained system.

Likely people will never go CC though, as the entire point for most people is to see what shows up at their door when they’re not at home.

The challenge is… how do you convince all your neighbors to take down their Ring doorbells?

I’ve filled it out already; I recommend everyone else does too.

Let’s play a word game. You can say “kill” and “all Christians” on TV, but put the two together and you’re likely going to be censored for inciting violence.

Words have meanings and so do sentences.

“Oh, God” when taken literally just means that you’re appealing to some more powerful being to sort out what you’ve witnessed.

“Damn it” means that you want ”it” to go to hell and stay there, with no chance for salvation.

“God damn it” means you’re calling on a specific interpretation of a deity that is associated with damning things to do so on your request.

And that’s all stuff that’s OK to say if you mean it. The blasphemy comes in when you say it without actually believing or wanting such a thing to happen, but just use the phrase as an outburst of frustration.

Kind of like shouting “bomb” in an airport. If you really believe there is one, you’re going to want to do it; otherwise, you’re going to get in a heap of trouble precisely because those in charge don’t want the word to lose its meaning in that context, because then people won’t respond properly when it’s said in earnest.

The right wing will return to power in Mexico. It will just take a while.

It only takes a single generation that’s never experienced fascism, and conservatism starts to look really good if things are going OK.

Higher learning teaches students how to think critically (or develop a very good short term memory).

But it doesn’t necessarily teach students TO think critically.

They’re taught the tools they can use, but using those tools takes effort and causes discomfort. So most people choose to use them as little as possible.

So, the main difference is: people (speaking generally) who have some post-high school education have developed the tools to approach a topic in an intelligent manner. This means that, given enough effort, you can help them understand a topic. Without that toolkit, trying to show them how something is more likely true based on evidence is often pointless. But having that toolkit isn’t going to make them automatically come to evidence-based conclusions.

So is Trump :D

Well, to play idiot’s advocate…

“Decimated” means to reduce by a factor of 10.

So if they had capability of 1,000, now they have capability of 100.

And it only takes one person with one rocket to shoot down an aircraft.

What do you think about him now being a millionaire?

Not much. I’m a millionaire and so is everyone on my street, and on all the adjacent streets. A million dollars doesn’t go as far as it did 60 years ago.

You should install an eBook reader like MegaReader; if you run your own Calibre server, it does a good job of reading books.

Realistically, there’s not going to be much you can do with an iPad 1.

An iPad 2, on the other hand, is still a very functional jailbroken device. SNES and older emulators work great, it can play streaming videos, works with various ePub and PDF readers, and handle email and site-specific web browsing (including Lemmy).

That trillion dollars for the military has to come from somewhere….

“We’ve pissed everybody off and alienated our friends… we NEED that funding to defend ourselves from the consequences!”

The other answers are missing out on the key reason: licensing.

Copyright law differs between regions, and so different groups need to be paid when the video is “sold” to a customer. Before the early 2000s, this was even more the case than it is today; the US hadn’t yet tied its own definition of copyright to all its trade agreements.

End result? Selling a US DVD in Japan would have been illegal; not because of the region restrictions but because the people who had to be paid to play it in that region hadn’t been paid so the DVD was effectively a bootleg.

Exactly. The findings were correct, the sentence was correct, but the reasoning for the sentence was very problematic. A proper reasoning needs to be found that will survive supreme court appeal and provide precedent for any future similar behavior.

They’d try desperately to burp instead?

Indeed… the program is sustainable at the expense of the environment.

But it’s a step up from not sustainable at all.

I really really hope the moon program gets beyond both those issues (figuratively and literally).

You’re not wrong… that’s what happens when you reduce a situation past meaningful statements.