Oh yeah, absolutely. There are limitations there, and stuff like compression and format are going to make a huge difference. I just think the tradeoffs are acceptable for the price.

Oh no, I can’t tell these people’s faces apart because someone on the internet said I wouldn’t be able too. What am I gonna do??

(the photo is 480x576 rather than 640x480 or 854x480 (16:9) but you get the idea)

Aldi doesn’t do sales ever.

480p in 2025 is trash.

According to who? If it’s functional as a doorbell then why does it need to chase higher specs and drive the price up? It’s not a movie, and you’re pawbably looking at it on a 6 inch screen anyway.

If you don’t like it, don’t buy it, spend your money elsewhere. But asserting that no one will use it is ridiculous and more than a little bit privileged.

It’s a shame that tuya camera* stuff, even cut from the cloud, still has so many issues integrating with ESPHome.

It costs US$22.50 compared to US$100 for the Ring (that requires a US$10/month subscription). It’s going to have some compromises and calling it e-waste for that is weird as hell. 480p is also pawfectly good-enough for the use case as well. Like, when I was growing up 480i was pawfectly cromulent, and most terrestrial broadcast channels are still only 576p50 (on DVB) encoded as MPEG-2. Your doorbell doesn’t need to be 2K or 4K, and that’s just going to use more drive space for no reason.

you dropped this \

The Pi 5 compute module works just fine in it.

I am personally very upset that on some specific day during my transition, it was no longer acceptable for me to be shirtless in public. During summer I get consent from visitors to my house, and have my housemates consent, so go shirtless at home.

I think it’s a great idea. Their descendants can inherit any proceeds from their life, rather than the ownership of the copyright.

Copyright, even if signed away to a company, is still timed off the original creator’s lifespan.

These don’t have a speaker AFAIK but they do have 3.5mm out so adding one would be trivial:

https://www.amazon.com.au/GMKtec-Upgraded-Desktop-Computer-Business/dp/B0F7XRLRM6

They idle around 10W according to a review by Jeff Geerling. That’s on Win11 though, I’d imagine Home Assistant OS is a little bit less. As for upgrades, the CPU isn’t socketed, but it uses standard laptop SODIMMs, and a full-size M.2 slot. You aren’t going to find socketed CPUs until you move up to a mini-ITX computer, like a Dell Optiplex USFF, but those do eat a decent bit more power, maybe 20-30W idle. It Has WiFi 6 and would easily handle multiple addons like Node RED.

Edit: Oh yeah, it has a 2242 SATA M.2 slot as well, so you can add some cheaper, slower storage as well as the 512GB NVMe boot drive if you wanted.

I feel like they lost prestige more broadly but I’m obviously bias being here on Lemmy. We see I guess, I predict them tanking after their IPO.

That doesn’t mean I think they should get to keep that stuff. Sure, we lost a lot of knowledge there, and that sucks. But the company lost out and pushed their IPO way back for it and I enjoy seeing Spez suffer after what he did to Aaron’s legacy.

Good! The users add all the value to that site, moderate if for free and they couldn’t even not be cunts about it.

If leaving a child in a car was a crime, you’d think they’d charge that up front?

Now the 20-year-old mother has been charged with one felony count of involuntary manslaughter and two felony counts of willful cruelty to a child, according to court records.

Is it not a specific crime in California/US to leave a child locked in a car?? We don’t fluff around with that in Australia. Also have exceptions to property damage laws for bystanders breaking windows.

It’s still marked as experimental, not deprecated, just will likely stay that way. However, it does work with both protocols individually, and the first-use wizard asks you which dedicated firmware you would like to install:

https://support.nabucasa.com/hc/en-us/articles/26124710072861-Enabling-Thread-support

2.4GHz*

Zigby particularly stood out as annoying to me as it includes its own 2.4ghz physical layer stack which uses the same range as WiFI, which is already overcrowded as hell and relies on some CSMA/CA magic to make even the most apartment crowded area of APs function decently.

I mean, there isn’t really any other choices for unlicensed consumer use? 5GHz is dedicated to WiFi. The sub-GHz bands would be great, as there isn’t a need for much bandwidth, but it’s a huge mishmash of frequencies that would require many different SKUs per device:

I all of a sudden have downvote buttons that are useless to me, was that bc of a settings reset? I can’t find the dang setting again!