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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I can't really support doing things for coolness factor while we have so many problems here on earth. I think it would be cool to go to Jamaica, but not at the expense of defaulting on my mortgage. Because that's how responsible adults think.

That's silly, Elon is altruistic and he will definitely let other people have that opportunity before him. He will praise them as heros while he stays here.

He wants to pay for healthcare with tariffs. Americans are so screwed if he cuts back to that.

People are just confused because they grew up under capitalism, and it wasn't designed to transform to methods better for the planet. Capitalism only transforms to be more profitable.

If you have old cameras ONVIF is a good way to find the URL for the RTSP streams, but I would agree just RTSP is often good enough. The existence of ONVIF does tell you a lot about the target buyer.

Look for ONVIF support in the specs. No ONVIF, then ignore it and keep looking. ONVIF doesn't guarantee things will be great but the lack of it is a huge warning flag.

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.

Children don't have absolute rights anywhere, not even in the US of fucking Eyh!

It's borderline worthless trying to get any people to agree anything over a Teams meeting let alone hold an international debate. That's not to say COP30 achieved anything, it didn't.