I keep hearing people complain that they need 4 streaming services to get everything they want to watch. So now it's 3...
There are three things at play here. You only hear people talking about one of them.
1. Several suppliers mean several sources that you need to subscribe to. That is bad.
2. Few suppliers mean zero resistance to astronomical price rises. That has the potential to be much worse.
3. HBO historically had a focus on quality content. Netflix not just historically, but currently as a policy are focusing on forgettable "background" entertainment, or as their CEO calls it "the second screen". Netflix's corporate direction destroying HBO would be a fucking disaster.
It;s getting harder and harder to find any camera which doesn't attempt to connect to the cloud in some form or another.
They want to monetize your data.
The things you describe are not mutually exclusives. Virtually all cameras come with some kind of cloud ability. A great many of them are still none the less completely local, and a subset of those, even those which "require" a cloud may also have an RTSP stream available which you could read out via Homeassistant or some other tool while the camera flashes it's light indicating that you haven't provisioned its cloud connection.
hey, you have to run a wire for power anyway
I just checked it's still 2025, thought I was in 1995 for a minute. No, most security cameras on the market aimed at consumers rather than commercial or professional installations do *not* need power. That said I do need to remove my cameras once every 6 months or so to charge them, a process that takes about 4 hours, but during those 4 hours I can just sit in the front yard with a shotgun in hand.
Once again Slashdot's self professed smartest person again proves he is able to only make the dumbest comments.
More comedy gold from our favourite moron.
Until they come after video games. But you'll say nothing, because you aren't a gamer.
Australia is infamously a place which bans certain video games. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make because it certainly seems like Australian gamers don't feel very oppressed.
rather than being able to have your own discretion
Kids do not have their own discretion, period. Actually the gaming example is far worse than the social media ban as it affects adults too, and yet you didn't even know about it.
Unfortunately your analogy isn't correct. Hot and cold water don't mix unless you force them to mix or the density differences pushed them against each other. The hot will attempt to rise to the top, the cold to the bottom. It's a physical property exploited by tank water heaters to get more heating power out than gets put in by heating different areas of the water tank differently at different times knowing that the fresh cold water added at the bottom won't mix with the hot. Your bucket example upside down would result in a bucket that is half hot, and half cold. Air on the other hand does mix a bit more chaotically, it's a function of gas's density to be more chaotic.
By the way have you ever swam in the ocean and noticed some spots are hotter than others? It's not because you're swimming through fresh fish pee.
The atmosphere part of your post is correct through. But this "mixing" in water is not an example of this in action. The mixing of air in the atmosphere is the result of air currents created both locally due to localised temperature differences and globally due to the earth's rotation.
A good analogy of how the polar vortex works are the air curtain airconditioning units you find at entrances into buildings. When you turn them off, drafts and currents as well as people moving in and out cause the hot air inside and the cold air outside to be exchanged. When the polar votex breaks down, it is localised temperature effects that causes the colder parts of the atmosphere to be drawn towards them creating mixing.
Apple is nagging with its v26.1 update. V26.2 is coming out any day and will probably be the only update for all iPhones can run it (so no v18.7.3 for my 12 mini since Apple likes to push iOS users to the newer major iOS version).
Hamas believes that no part of the land of Palestine shall be compromised or conceded, irrespective of the causes, the circumstances and the pressures and no matter how long the occupation lasts. Hamas rejects any alternative to the full and complete liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea. However, without compromising its rejection of the Zionist entity and without relinquishing any Palestinian rights, Hamas considers the establishment of a fully sovereign and independent Palestinian state, with Jerusalem as its capital along the lines of the 4th of June 1967, with the return of the refugees and the displaced to their homes from which they were expelled, to be a formula of national consensus.
I'm not sure about that. It seems the government in this case are the only ones in the world who have the interests of the kids in their heart. God know parents are fucking useless raising TikTok zombies.
If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.