Neither were you, you fucking donut.

The discussion was about self defense.

This actually happened to me. I forget the name of the subreddit, though.

The discussion was about some protest where people were blocking the roads and several of the protestors had guns and were pointing them at drivers.

So I posted, "I would have dropped my truck into four wheel drive and driven over them like speed bumps."

A couple of hours later, "You have been permanently banned from r/echochamber for inciting violence".

I consider driving over someone pointing a gun at me as self defense.

Building your own is quite feasible using off the shelf stuff, e.g. raspberry pi for the brains and hosting platform. But the average person does not have the skills to pull this off. I've been considering starting a project based on this idea, but haven't had the free time required.

Which is why I specifically said "light text requirements". I use it for taking on the fly notes all the time. I would never use it for writing extensive documents.

I highly recommend Notepad++. It's an opensource editor with lots of bells and whistles to handle both your light text requirements and your coding needs. I especially like the plugin that allows me to access remote files via ssh. It automatically detects the type of line break used when you open a file and will continue to use that style as you make changes.

The Supreme Court doesn't have any way of enforcing compliance on their own. That requires the president and/or Congress to act. Biden won't lift a finger to support a pro gun ruling and Congress is too divided to get anything done.

Except they creating new requirements for the CCW, such as letters of reference and psych evaluations. Also, there are HUGE delays in getting your application processed.

I'm in Alameda County where there is no chance of obtaining a CCW unless you have the right political connections $$$$$$.

The basic rule is if your county is on or near the coast, you won't be getting a CCW, with a few exceptions. Go deep inland and you usually can obtain a CCW with little or no problem.

They still get sales. Someone who went in to get an ice cream is going to walk out with a soda and fries. A soda is pure profit. Their cost is pennies, even counting the cup. Fries are probably also a high profit margin item.

For farmers, a delay in getting something repaired could mean bankruptcy because their crop rotted in the field. And if it's something easy to fix but locked just so John Deer can charge for a service call, they have every right to be pissed and look at alternate means of repair.

Stuff that must remain readily accessible is different from archiving. I realize stuff needs to be accessible for a certain period of time, but that isn't forever.

Also, AWS has storage for government agencies that is handled different than the business grade stuff. I do not, however, know how much that costs. Obviously not storage for secret or top secret stuff, but storage that is handled in the way required by law for regular government documents.

I'm guessing the camera vendor's service handles backup and retention properly, so the issue from the original story would never occur. I was merely musing on what it would take to implement proper backups and retention to avoid what happened in that story. It's not hard and it's not excessively expensive, so they have absolutely no damn excuse for losing all those videos.

Oops, left a step out. $1,300 per year that is kept. Still not a lot.

Intersection cameras typically don't record video. They take a few still shots when there is movement. The better ones take a few still shots only when a violation is detected, e.g. running a red light. So the storage requirements shouldn't be that severe if done right.

Cost is a few bucks per terabyte for glacier storage. Let's assume 5 terabytes a week (worse case using your example) at $5 per terabyte per month (that's over the going rate, but it makes for simple math). So 5 terabytes @ $5 for 52 weeks = That's $1,300/year for storage. That's nothing, even for a small town. That's for the cheapest storage. Hot and warm storage cost more, though. If I were setting this up, I would keep three months in hot storage, then after that in warm storage for a year, then shove it into the cheap glacier storage. Active cases, however, would be kept in hot storage. The type of storage would be based on when last accessed, not when created, so video that is still needed automatically stays in hot storage simply by accessing it. This is not difficult to do.

You back it up to AWS S3 glacier storage where it is relatively inexpensive to store and requires no actual work to keep the systems maintained. Cold storage is a few bucks per month per terabyte. Retrieval costs can add up, but you should only need to retrieve in a rare emergency, e.g. when an idiot deletes your local copies.