Reolink has a local encrypted video doorbell.

Technically, yes, but only in that your battery can be explosive, given the right circumstances. Really, they’re more highly combustible than explosive. They can burn very very hot and very quickly, but they won’t detonate.

The longer they put it off, the more unnoticed it will go when they finally do it.

This.

And sometimes she’ll just stare at a wall.

Yep. That is the best reaction to reengagement notifications.

My sister plays both the violin and the big violin.

If you want the actual reason, this is called reengagement, and its purpose is to get users to use the app again, meaning more ad revenue. Subscription apps don’t do this because they want the user to forget about the app so they get paid while providing no service. But ad driven apps only get paid when you see an ad on the app, so they’ll send these reengagement notifications. Social media apps will use something like “This post picked for you”, or “This many people viewed your profile”. Same thing.

That only works with non-first past the post voting systems.

Ouch. xD

It’s super easy to create. And you distribute it on your own, so it’s basically like an installer exe on Windows. In my mind it’s one step above only offering source code.

My software, QuickDAV, is not in the AUR. It’s open source, and I release it only as an AppImage, because I am lazy.

The Firefox snap was the reason I left Ubuntu. (Or, the last straw, at least.) Fedora has been wonderful.

Or maybe just better at sneaking around.

The teenagers aren’t having enough sex?

This is a new one.

Ultimately, you can’t. Even if everything you’re doing is encrypted, they have access to the RAM that’s holding your encryption keys.

If they tried to close source it, someone would just fork it.

I see what you mean. Yeah, that would work.

You can just look at the status light on it that shows whether it’s recording.

They only record when they see movement, so no need to stand still. The spinning is what gets caught on the recording. Then if you can rip it off within ten seconds, all that gets recorded is your spinning.

Blink Security Cameras.

Record for 30 seconds, then can’t record for the next 10. So you miss 25% of whatever’s going on at your house. Can’t add other users, so anyone you want to give view access to your cameras, you just have to give them your password, and thus, full access. No web UI, just the mobile app. No Home Assistant integration. Subscription required.

If you want cheap encrypted storage you can run a Nephele server with encryption and something like Backblaze B2.