Is dumb doorbell + separate CCTV camera a valid alternative? Even my fairly basic Reolink camera has a much better image quality than any doorbell camera I've seen, and HA can pull an image from it and push it to my phone in only a few tenths of a second whenever someone pushes the doorbell.
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I'm in the same boat - zero ads in Sync for Lemmy until this last update. I just assumed the purchase from Sync for Reddit had carried over, but I guess either LJ changed his mind or it wasn't intentional.
Pipe dream, but I really wish we would make it illegal to use the terms "Buy" or "Own" for digital goods that can at some point not exist outside of your control.
I give you a dollar and get a DRM-free video file? That is buying.
I give you a dollar and can watch a video file an unlimited number of times in your app? That is not buying, and it should be fraud to claim that it is.
It's even sillier than that - 5x as much is 400% more. 399x as much is 39800% more.
I had to pay for a static IP just this week because it turns out the new ISP uses CG-NAT.
You're right in that it's a useful tool for various kinds of abuse, but so is almost every useful home automation/home security sensor.
The most obvious/useful use cases I can see are:
Both should be easy with load cells under the bed legs but rather difficult otherwise.
(Useful assuming a household of two adults in one bed that is).