Reader, I married her.
At least the wife is funny.
Ring is basically spyware. Anyone with the backdoor knows when you aren’t home.
Wish I had never got one. In my ignorance I thought I could stream it like any other camera, just needed to know the protocol. They make one like that?
You’re looking for reolink stuff, just about the only ones that are still real ipcams and not IoT cloud spyware
Samsung is the only one I know of that is not proprietary networked and has Foss Firmware. Avigilon and Axis both phone home (Though they’re contact is at least contract specific) and generic Chinese have tons of records of phoning home without informing users.
It’s a pretty big problem in the security industry. Camera’s are notoriously insecure unless you make them so. Air gaping with local storage is best.
There are a few options on self-hosting doorbell cameras.
Full self-hosting a Ring doorbell is a bit of a bother and you might as well go another route and have a POE security system with storage. You can’t easily divorce your Ring from the company’s control.
I like my Reolink for this purpose.
There are many of you dive in a little and are comfortable with technology.
It’s been years and I still giggle them theres motion at my bunghole
I would have married her too
I named the thermostat “reactor”. “Hey Google, turn up the reactor.”
My cleverest accident was putting all the ceiling-mounted minis in the “attic” room. “Turn off the attic” kills 'em all, reboots the whole mess.
Another accident: I have two vivariums, “tank” and “main tank”. The morning I goofed and said, “turn on the tanks”, and it worked!
I resent the Boomer notion that 40 year old women can’t be funny.
I took it to mean she’s a mature adult, not a teenager.
I don’t think that’s what the post was implying
This is childish humour. It’s a dig at her age, not ability. I resent the immediate jump to women not being funny. Maybe take the plank from your own eye.
maybe just making sure we know it wasn’t someone else who amazingly reached 40-year-old-woman level of humor, but a 40-year-old woman achieving the typical amazing level of humor they’re known for
Missed opportunity.
Ring is the backdoor. That’s the joke.
Capital A Anus.
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