…as long as y’all use GenAI incorrectly.

It has it’s uses i programming. Doing all the coding for you is not one of them.

I’ll give you a hint: Originally it was *******.

Wait, let me try again - hunter2

Argh, that sucks.

So why can’t I read them for free too?

I can. Don’t you have libraries in your country?

Yep, all my smart thermostats are zugbee. No phoning home by design, so I don’t have to worry about missing functionality by not giving them internet connection.

And that goes for almost all my smart home. I only have wifi things when I couldn’t find a realistic zigbee option.

I do NOT want my thermostats to phone home. I don’t see any value of that.

But they are connected to MY smart home system (Hone Assistant), and THAT is accessible from the internet.

I get the remote monitoring and control that I want, and they don’t get any of my data. Perfect!

Or just “1.5 months”.

If it was 46 days, there will (arguably) be times where it’s less than 1.5 months.

I guess the intention is automation that updates every month, leaving you with half a month to fix issues.

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You’re not getting the point.

A: You csn shop there without an account. It’s your own choice. An account has pros and cons, and it’s your choice.

B: I don’t know how it works in US, but in my country a McDonald’s account is a fair deal to me. They pay me a fair price for some personal info. And if I go to McDonald’s and I for any reason feel like they shouldn’t register that particular visit, I just don’t use my account.

C: I want to use Windows, but logging into a Microsoft account does not give me any benefits worth the cons. So I use Windows without a Microsoft account. And it will be annoying to keep track of a “fake” account just for that.

Yep, that’s basically what I have.

I’m ready to buy a factory new car, when I find one where the data is mine.

Yes, but this is not one of those times.

Imagine someone poops on your doorstep, and then removes half of it.

You can say it’s good that they removed some of it, but that’s probably not the point you would want to make.

None of them were trying to push privacy as a competitive advantage.

This is why I don’t have a new car. I’m hoping I get one where I have access to my own data (in eg. Home Assistant), and the manufacturer doesn’t.

Most of them, probably. It’s a new requirement in EU to get 5/5 stars safety rating.

That’s also why it’s specifically 5 features - that’s the bare minimum.

If I can’t use it one-handed (using ALL physical buttons and ALL parts of the screen), then it’s not a phone.

Seriously, this is how we used to define the difference between phones and tables - one-hand or two-hand use.

Great.

1: How do I get an RTSP or ONVIF? Every time I try to buy one, the stuff that is recommended is no longer available, or practically only available in US. (I haven’t checked in months maybe years, but this is where I usually get stuck.)

2: So I get a camera, and I have an rpi or PC-based server with storage. I can see a stream, but that’s just an extra eye. How do I turn this into a surveillance camera, so I get a notification when there’s movement, and an archive of people in the monitored area?

- Are you two ladies from Londen?

- Wales

- Okay, are you two whales from London?

I believe it does.

Here in Denmark, it’s legal to circumvent piracy protection, if the purpose is to legally use the product.

The example that was used in the media when this was new, is when you buy a DVD and want to play it on a PC instead of a DVD player. Usually piracy protection would stop it from working on a PC. Of course the circumvention also makes it easy to make and distribute a pirate copy.

So the ability to use the product in the way the customer choose (within reason), is weighted higher than stopping piracy a little.

This is one of the basic problems - mixing sick leave an vacation.

This thing where you have a certain number of sick days to spend, it often ends up as another kind of vacation. And then when you are out of sick leave, your vacation leave is just another kind of sick leave.

Here in Denmark, there’s virtually unlimited sick leave. If you’re sick, you take a leave with full pay. No “max 14 days of paid sick leave”. If you need to go to the doctor and you can’t do it outside working hours, it’s sick leave.

Then your vacation leave is for vacation. And sometimes errands, but with 25-30 days per year, there should be time for both.

I’m in Denmark, if I need to go to the doctor, dentist etc during working hours, it is usually counted as sick leave. This means full pay and no deduction in vacation time, and here we don’t run out of sick leave.

Although we do have a dury to try doing it outside office hours.