Yeah, in the '50s "Keeping up with the Jones's" was the meme for the same behaviors.

I don't recognize that name, but I retired a few years ago and haven't really kept up with changes in the industry. Question out of random curiosity, do they have a tool for managing very large numbers of cameras? How long do they support their cameras? When I left only Axis and Pelco did. I updated firmware on ~15,000 Axis cameras in my spare time over about three months, some of them almost 10 years old, and a former coworker did the same on 1,400 Pelco cameras across an Endura system in a weekend.

Billionaires and autocrats have sabotaged both systems. We are going to have to figure out a third way or we are going to descend into techno feudalism and that is going to suck for everybody but about 5000 people on the entire planet .

if you are reading this you are not one of those 5,000

Is socialism? Almost the entire world is against them except Russia that uses them occasionally as a thorn in the side of the United States.

America's gearing up for war with them. Prior to that we had cut them out of the rest of the world and all of the global markets.

So I don't think Venezuela which is under active attack by every capitalist nation in the world is a fair representative of alternatives to capitalism.

I do think we live in the real world though and we can't pretend that socialism works even if the only reason it doesn't work is that billionaires, who are themselves vehemently opposed to capitalism, will sabotage it making it impossible to properly implement.

The important thing to remember is billionaires do not support capitalism either. So capitalism is going to get sabotaged by billionaires too and therefore capitalism is not an alternative to billionaires.

We are going to have to figure out a third way. Because both capitalism and socialism have failed us.

There is no fix besides austerity and suffering.

That's because rich people don't want to have to spend the money to solve problems that are mostly your problem and not theirs.

You need to get out of the habit, a habit let's remember you were conditioned into by the wealthy, of assuming that nothing can ever get better and that good things aren't possible anymore.

That habit is an extreme and toxic form of conservativism.

If there were anyone left in the FCC after getting DOGE'd, you might have a point. But I think that at this point, I could fire up a transmitter on LAX approach frequency and play "Baby Shark" on repeat, and be about 99% sure there'd be no enforcement.

Everywhere you look you only see your enemies, a few people have tries to lead you to a normal mode of thinking, but I always say: you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.

P.S. I'm not a leftist, but thanks for playing.

Don't install a Ring camera in your meth lab. Duh.

Sure. Gotta have standing. They found somebody out standing in their field.

Wouldn't use of a WiFi jammer incur a $10,000 fine from the FCC for use of an unlicensed transmitter?

Except there is faaar more than enough for everyone. Nobody needs to starve.

The best government money can buy.

Yeah, the landscape is littered with first-to-markets. Often with better products, but shit happens.

Not really. One glance at a modern (post-mid-1950) curriculum will show you that.

I hope they can still teach students about a strawman argument.

Democracy and freedom isn't free. You have to fight for it every day. The religious right wants to take away my human rights and your human rights, and if you want to carry water for them then be prepared to serve underneath them on day.

Free forum is a free soapbox. I couldn't give two shits about your insufferable opinion of other people's opinions. But I think you already know that, other Slashdotters are certainly communicated a similar sentiment to you before.

They would like to sell you a cloud storage subscription, but they do give you the option to use local physical storage (or iCloud) instead.