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Did we culturally forget that digital art and photoshopping exist for a minute?

Oh yeah, absolutely. There are limitations there, and stuff like compression and format are going to make a huge difference. I just think the tradeoffs are acceptable for the price.

Oh no, I can’t tell these people’s faces apart because someone on the internet said I wouldn’t be able too. What am I gonna do??

(the photo is 480x576 rather than 640x480 or 854x480 (16:9) but you get the idea)

Aldi doesn’t do sales ever.

480p in 2025 is trash.

According to who? If it’s functional as a doorbell then why does it need to chase higher specs and drive the price up? It’s not a movie, and you’re pawbably looking at it on a 6 inch screen anyway.

If you don’t like it, don’t buy it, spend your money elsewhere. But asserting that no one will use it is ridiculous and more than a little bit privileged.

It’s a shame that tuya camera* stuff, even cut from the cloud, still has so many issues integrating with ESPHome.

It costs US$22.50 compared to US$100 for the Ring (that requires a US$10/month subscription). It’s going to have some compromises and calling it e-waste for that is weird as hell. 480p is also pawfectly good-enough for the use case as well. Like, when I was growing up 480i was pawfectly cromulent, and most terrestrial broadcast channels are still only 576p50 (on DVB) encoded as MPEG-2. Your doorbell doesn’t need to be 2K or 4K, and that’s just going to use more drive space for no reason.

That’s honestly just a tin-foil hat sort of take, that entirely relies on planning for an unprecedented AWS outage specifically to screw over customers.

I would say that’s a pretty minor issue that isn’t related to the functioning of the service itself.

Matrix is way more dark side in my opinion (this is a joke about how often it fluffs up, leaving you in the dark).

I would be surprised if Signal didn’t have a contract with another cloud provider as well, incase of this sort of thing.

Government’s also shouldn’t be incentivised to always go with the cheapest option during procurements and tenders. Price is not the only factor in a value calculation and it is insane that we just ignore that fact.

This is literally just a US skill issue, and just so you’re aware, folks in the rest of the world do exist on the internet.

I wouldn’t want my city traffic lights managed by a private company, because they’d try to cut costs and avoid building in redundant systems.

While they aren’t run by private companies, the traffic lights at the entrances to most housing estates are procured and installed by the developer, at least in Australia. Without fail, about 12-24 months later, the red and green LED lights will have half a dozen or more dead pixels on them. Meanwhile, newer LED lights installed by the roads department are still going strong years later.

you dropped this \

The Pi 5 compute module works just fine in it.

Me not having the spoons to debate a necro comment doesn’t make you right. ✌️

I dunno mate, go read the wikipedia article or something.

I mean, breaking app compatibility is just a non-starter generally. The state of the apps is honestly the biggest thing holding Jellyfin back.

You know where else it’s easy to run Windows 11? In a VM on Linux.