Reolink here too. They support open protocols and work locally with no internet access. Picture quality is decent. You can record to your own server, or fit an SD card, or both.

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.

The two are nothing alike. British politeness is sometimes unbearable but in India the "yes" culture isn't even stopped by agreeing to two incompatible things. The answer there is to lie to your face by agreeing and then apologising afterwards.

It is an insane culture where you can't be sure that what you agreed on will actually happen in the slightest.

Not comparable in the slightest. The Japanese may not say no, but they don't do it while lying, as evident by your example. The Indians will outright say yes to your face and then apologise afterwards when they don't do the thing they said yes to.

This isn't just project management, this is as straight forward as "Pick me up from the hotel at 1pm." "Yes Sir" and after catching an Uber to my destination I got a "Sorry Sir" the day after when the guy who said yes flat out admitted that he knew he wasn't rostered on that day. Or the other time a few days later when a colleague of mine agreed to go to two meetings at the same time knowing full well the second was a clash and despite the second being trivially movable an hour later.

That is not how antitrust laws work in any place on the planet. And the rest of the places definitely do enforce their laws.

Indeed. Given the number of employees I would have figured it would be an order of magnitude higher than that at least. The Pentagon got an awesome deal.

You misspelled "flood a road away" The height of moving water is quite insignificant to the speed at which it moves. An 18" tsunami may get your feet wet, or may take you and your car across the suburb destroying quite a lot in its path.

The question is one of momentum. Very shallow water can be insanely destructive depending on how it moves. Just a few inches of expected moving water is required to have engineering considerations for foundations to prevent them being undermined.

Providing you don't double dip there's nothing wrong with that. The concepts are different for an asset disposed of at end of life vs an asset that is kept for its value. You'll find that in the accounting world no one (who isn't committing fraud) is depreciating real-estate. They are depreciating the value of the buildings (39 years, not 30 years), while the realestate itself is kept as an asset on the books. The IRS would have some very interesting things to say for you if you attempted to depreciate the property as opposed to the things built on it which do in fact wear out over time and require renovation.

You've missed the point. They are pushing out the depreciation time beyond the usable life of the product. That is fine as long as they take an impairment charge, but the whole point being made is that it artificially inflates their profits *today*.

If you don't understand why this is a problem in a time of an AI bubble where tech stocks are trading at ludicrous values then I can't help you.

What you're talking about is the opposite of the problem at hand. What is being discussed here is pushing out depreciation cycles despite replacing hardware with new cutting edge stuff to spread out the tax benefits. I think businesses should be forced to use equipment at full capacity for the duration of their depreciation period.

If they want to give it up early, fuck them let them take an impairment charge.

Bonus points if for every piece of hardware that doesn't meet the estimated timeframe an accountant's pubic hair is plugged out with tweezers.

Working and performant is relative to the task at hand. You may not need cutting edge, but when cutting edge is the difference between making money in a new market and not making money in a new market then the hardware ceases to be usable long before it is end of life.

By all means keep your server from 2012 if it works for you. As long as my painfully slow laptop is replaced next year when it's 3 year cycle is up.

Will they? The point of depreciation is that the device is deemed to be past life and replaced over that period. That's what the write-off is all about. I'm with you by the way, I think the cards should remain in use, and I think companies should be forced to utilise them at full capacity for the entire duration of their write-off period.

They want to claim they will be used continuously over that time, then let's force them to stick by their accounting trick.

People who reap the benefits of the spoils of crime aren't "innocent".

I call bullshit, you may have no issues with X11, but you definitely had issues with the "setup". I have never managed ever on any distro with any device to get X11 to correctly identify multiple different resolution / refresh monitors correctly.

I've always gotten it to work... except for the refresh issue, but the reality is X11 is very poor at this. Bonus points if you need to scale across one monitor only. That I've never gotten to work.

Last time I used X11 I switched away from it out of frustration and haven't looked back. Network transparency isn't worth the hell of trying to use X11 as a modern desktop. It was great back when hardware was static, but on a laptop with different docking stations, maybe connected to a TV sometimes to watch movies it is simply amazing that X11 hasn't made my put my fist straight through the screen on multiple occasions.

No issues? Man I bow before you oh master hacker. You are truly a god amongst us mere mortals.

Do I sound pissed? Yes, X11 has pissed me off in ways Wayland hasn't (yet).