Wireless cameras offer an easier vector for people to get into your camera feeds. Biggest risk to this is a poorly secured network in the first place, but the risk is still there.

Also, wireless is going to be inherently a worse quality video stream, and constant video traffic being sent over your Wi-Fi bogs down your entire network.

All that being said Wi-Fi cameras are just fine and as long as you have strong Wi-Fi security you’re really not at a real risk unless someone very savvy is specifically targeting you, in which case you’ve got bigger problems.

I have probably a dozen cheap wireless cameras in my house (to keep an eye on pets) and I have them spaced over two access points and honestly I don’t notice a difference on my Wi-Fi at all, but I’m sure it’s worse than if I didn’t have them. All my exterior cameras are wired, but that’s more because I want better quality streams and I’m running a wire anyways so might as well be PoE. Only exterior wireless camera I have is my doorbell but that’s because I didn’t want to run a new wire to it.

Overall wired cameras are much better quality, but they’re not as convenient. Make the decision for yourself based off of your priorities. Real tough to get a wireless camera with the fidelity needed to capture license plates clearly, but if you don’t need that then why worry about whether your gear can achieve it or not?

There’s no reason to try and salvage a ring camera. Their business model is subscriptions and data collection; I’m not aware of any projects to flash them with custom firmware, and my guess is they’re locked down hard to prevent it because that’s their entire revenue model, you’re free to keep looking but I’d bet it’s a dead end or at the very least much more than an afternoon project.

Get a Wi-Fi reolink and connect it to an ONVIF capable NVR. You can use a paid solution like blue iris on a Windows machine or there’s plenty of free options for any OS of your choice. You can probably directly access the feed by navigating to the camera IP but I’m not sure, I don’t use mine that way. Without some kind of NVR software you won’t get a lot of the features people like such as notifications and two way talk, object/person recognition, etc.

Is this a troll post?

-OP doesn’t specify model

-if you are even considering flashing it that means you can remove and modify it

-change Wi-Fi password and don’t reconnect it

-smash it and install a normal doorbell or something else that isn’t spyware

What am I even reading here

Don’t take it personally. You think your neighbor wants to record you and your dog specifically? I mean, it’s possible, but it’s likely they just want to be able to see who comes to their door, or have a general idea of what’s going on around their house. I have my locally hosted reolink doorbell set to trigger on zones if things enter my driveway or approach my door, because that’s what I care about. I get a bunch of crap with kids playing in the street running onto my property, people’s dogs straying off the sidewalk, and the occasional vehicle turning around. But I also figured out what kids were doing dong dashing, and have record of what deliveries were suplexed WWE style onto my doormat so I can more easily handle stuff damaged in shipping.

If you hear some crazy shit outside you probably get up and look out the window, don’t you? Well, a camera means you can go back and see what happened all the time. It’s a no brainer why people want them now that they’re cheap and accessible.

Most people don’t have any idea how bad cloud cameras are for overall society, and they’ll probably roll their eyes and think you’re crazy if you try to dive into that conversation with them out the gate.

They’re legally within their rights to do what they’re doing, so you can dislike it all you want but there’s not much you can do about it without some pretty diplomatic conversations. And a passive aggressive note left about them watching you and your dog isn’t going to help your case, at ALL. First you’ll have to become friends with them so they trust you, then find a way to educate them and change their minds.

Honestly? It can’t, really. There’s some very accessible things people can do on the user side such as good password management practices, but even something as “simple” as firewall rules quickly devolves into technical stuff that most people have no idea how to deal with.

The reality is that the Internet, computers, applications are all incredibly complicated. How they interconnect is incredibly complicated, and the vast majority of people don’t even understand what an IP address is, what the function of DNS is, what a MAC address is and how it’s different than an IP address, etc. So, you can maybe point them to a guide that they can follow to set up wireguard to access their music folder when they’re out, maybe, but since every network is different, how do you make sure they’re setting it up securely without copying and pasting routes that make them less secure? You have to understand what you’re doing to be able to see if in a specific use case you’re not causing an issue.

I dunno. This is a really tough nut to crack. There’s no “guide to learning cyber security.” If you know nothing and want to learn more, you just have to learn about networking, Linux, firewalls, active directory, everything.

If you’re looking for something incremental all you’ll find is incremental learning of specific things. Like, look up the LPI Linux Essentials study guide if you want to just learn some Linux stuff. Then spin up a bunch of VMs of different distros to play with, and look at some other Linux stuff. And more Linux stuff, until you feel like you understand Linux pretty well. But, that doesn’t make you good at cyber security… Because there’s so much more than just knowing Linux. So no, there’s no incremental guide for what you’re looking for - you just have to learn many things, and you can come from whatever direction you want to start from.

If you want to learn safely then just don’t expose anything to the Internet. Keep it all local, and yeah you might introduce some insecure setups or applications, but you’re not really under any more threat of network intrusion than if you never started. That sucks though because we want to access our shit from outside the house, right? But that’s the choice, if you want to stay more secure until you’re more educated. And yeah, honestly it’s kind of undergraduate qualification level to start understanding things well enough. Sorry, that’s just the reality I think.

Best option is to recommend people self host their camera feeds. People aren’t going to give cameras up, myself included, but keeping it all out of the ring/nest/netvue or any other cloud system is the way to go.

People can record in public, and that includes the area around their houses. Having 100s of thousands or millions of cameras sharing feeds with law enforcement for warrantless surveillance or corporate data hounds for more people tracking is the issue.

Thank you so much!

I have a Weller WLC 40w, I did a good bit of reading before I bought it but I might have missed the mark. I got a brass sponge that I stuck in an old metal canister, and some of those crappy plastic unpowered vacuum suckers off Amazon.

I did buy my solder on Amazon, I wonder if that’s been an issue. It’s this: Kester 24-6337-0010 44 Rosin Core Solder 63/37, and I don’t use flux with it.

The solder you have, is it regulated because of lead content? I can go buy a hunk of pure lead without question so it’s weird to me if that’s the case.

Can you post a gear list? I got an iron a while ago and some crappy Amazon sucker tubes but I really think I’m missing some stuff because I’m either missing stuff or using crappy solder. I like to try and just take components off boards for practice but even that is a huge struggle. I’ve fixed a couple things but it’s rough work for sure.

I know it’s probably a skill issue, but I think some other tools might make certain things a bit easier as well, but without someone I know to ask questions I don’t want to just buy some random stuff.

Been a bit since I played but I remember them being good, but iirc I still preferred mouse+keyboard when I was using ranged weapons, but that’s more because I suck with controllers than any weakness with the input method.

Take that with a grain of salt though because it really has been a while. I recommend you try it out.

Great game. Very much a terraria analogue, but top down.

Terraria is a masterpiece with many, many more years of development so it’s not the most fair comparison if you want to say that it’s better than Necesse, which I think it is, but this gem is IMO 2nd place in whatever the “terraria” genre might be called.

Noteworthy perhaps, but one is based on analysis of facts and the other is based on principle. I think they’re both valuable points of view, but they’re not actually debating the same points IMO even if they think they are.

There’s a few ways to “detect” VPN traffic, and you’re missing some but port blocking is one of them. Rerouting over 443 is a possible workaround, but depending on the network architecture they can still detect VPN traffic using deep packet inspection.

Blocking ports is a very simple mechanism to prevent things and it doesn’t take long for a business to grow into IT management that involves more sophisticated methods like DPI.

VPN protocols have distinguishable packet headers/metadata/handshakes/etc. DPI can easily identify and block those, or any other known protocols, if they have it configured to do so.

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Maybe try podcast addict, been using it for years and it’s just got constant development. I donated to them because I hate subscriptions and I’ve gotten a lot of value from it.

Free version only has ads on the search page as far as I can tell, and it’s just a couple recommended casts.

I’m not sure if you’ll really save yourself much electricity with what you’re planning, if any.

GPUs shouldn’t really be pulling much power when they aren’t being used, but as another poster mentioned you can test this with a kill-o-watt or other similar tool. If you care about electricity usage and don’t have one it’s a great lil thing to have around.

You can test by doing the following:

-run PC at idle without GPU inserted into mobo and then test again with GPU plugged in.

If you want to check if switching back and forth between output ports (igpu vs card) you can try and switch your monitor cable while the PC is running, but there’s a good chance that the GPU will be active even if you don’t have a display plugged in. You can test this by:

-boot PC with GPU inserted and monitor plugged into GPU, then swap the cable to igpu and see if that makes a difference. I highly doubt it will make a noticeable difference, but if it seems worth it to you I think the easiest way to switch is a KVM switch or other device made to swap a single display amongst different devices.

But at that point you’re saving pennies at best and it’ll all go towards your new kvm switch unless you want to be plugging and unplugging a cable all the time… And I’m no expert in how various components draw power in a PC when they’re not being used (probably firmware/OS dependent) but I still think your GPUs will draw power even if not actually connected to a display

Just keep your stuff plugged into your GPU my guy. If you want to drop power use and noise then tweak the power/fan curves, underclock it, make sure you’ve got good airflow, etc

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_(philosophy)

There was this asshole teacher, one of his students stole his car and crashed it through a set of double doors into the building. Destroyed the entire entryway and both sets of heavy duty doors.

Epic, man. Everyone hated that teacher and he had bought one of the new VW bugs when they first started making the new ones and he thought it was just so cool.

Tape the flap halfway or 3/4 up until he goes through it regularly. Then decrease the amount it’s open until he’s comfortable with it again and rinse/repeat until he gets it.

Takes some time and patience. Other posters have given tips on how to encourage the dog to go through, that helps also.

BJJ is one of the most “useful” when it comes to actually fighting (along with boxing).

Karate and TKD are more of an art/discipline. A well trained karate fighter will very likely outmove an untrained assailant, but someone moderately trained in BJJ will likely be able to subdue/get away from a very well karate or TKD fighter.

Honestly, BJJ is an amazing skill to have in a pinch, and it trains you in grappling with opponents that have a size/weight disparity.

Not all gyms/dojos use belts, even in BJJ. BJJ belts follow a pretty good progression based on skill, whereas karate (can’t say for TKD, never trained in it personally) often relies on performance of kata in order to progress to the next belt. Kata is choreographed movements, it’s more like a dance that you practice than an actual measure of ability to spar/fight.

If OP wants to get their kid into a fighting sport that’s fun and relatively safe, they can pick any discipline. If they want the added bonus of their kid being much better equipped to defend themself from a real aggressor they would do best getting them into BJJ, boxing, and then wrestling once they’re in middle/high school.

I would personally avoid boxing for my own kids due to the repeated head trauma and risk of fractures, but it’s the best real world striking training you’ll get, at least in the USA. BJJ and wrestling help you immensely once you’re on the ground, which is where 90% of street fights go within the first couple seconds, but a real, dangerous, fight is often over before it starts and countering a sucker punch or landing a decisive one yourself before the opponent can react is often the most important thing.

One of the downsides of BJJ is that it’s culturally tied to MMA in the USA now, which means that if OPs kid does BJJ for a while in their youth they’ll be more inclined to get into MMA in early adulthood, which is not something I would want for my children. But it’s a great skill regardless.

Um, TPMs for sure provide meaningful security. Maybe their use is implemented poorly a lot of the time, AND they can be abused to hold control over hardware you’ve purchased, but low level exploits are for sure a thing and TPMs and other dedicated hardware security modules (for enterprise) most definitely serve a purpose.

They’re a response to the ever evolving advancement of cyber exploits. Don’t knock them on principle, take affront to when they’re used poorly.