God forbid they act as if they (or anyone at all by your logic?) have some skin in the game.

Yea most roofs are unfortunately not positioned ideally for PV.

That’s a neat feature. Most of the ones I’ve seen just offer “cloud monitoring” with no mention of local access. Can I ask what inverter you have?

Call the inverter manufacturer first. As others said, they most likely can help you connect it to the internet and check to see what’s working and what isnt. With their help, even if you do need to call an electrician, you’ll at least know what the issue is and can make the electrician’s job easier, faster, and probably cheaper for you.

Punk community on a right wing instance? Nahhh I’m happy to steer clear of that.

They had me until the last three words.

Little refillable and rechargeable salt-nic vapes are nearly as cheap as disposables up front and much cheaper over time. You usually can’t get them at gas stations like you can with disposables, but the reoccurring cost of replacement pods and juice is much less than constantly buying a new disposable. My partner and I are big fans of our Vaporesso Xross.

I really dont understand how disposables have gotten so commonplace with so many good salt-nic vapes on the market.

We’re all being fucked by corporate AI anyways, and none of us are in the room to shape decisions. To me, using AI (and especially paying for it from the likes of chatGPT) is capitulating to the oppressors and doesnt actually allow us any greater control over the technology’s future. It teaches reliance on a technology that has the express purpose of replacing our need to think and removing us from the fruits of our labor. I don’t pretend it doesnt exist because I’m not delusional, but I will argue that it’s ultimately harmful to society with my last breath, at least in it’s current forms.

Agreed. I’m more excited to see what Summer Eternal does.

The right literally dont want to stop the rich. They want to stop the left from stopping the rich. People who identify as right wing can sometimes be brought out of the cancerous mindset that reinforces their oppression, but “the right” is absolutely no fucking ally to anyone seeking liberation for their community.

Hopefully your 401k is diversified with international stocks and other assets, which have been increasing as US stocks have decreased. Definitely dont panic sell now. In the short term, the US stock market may keep dropping or it may hold steady or increase from here. In the long term, unless capitalism truely fails or is dismantled in the US, a diversified stock portfolio will go up.

The only guaranteed thing is that as soon as you sell, that will be the bottom.

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Monster Prom is honestly so fun and challenging.

We aren’t sacrificing our cat for a vacation. She’ll be well taken care of while we’re away, we just wanted to set up a simple method of checking on her when the urge strikes us without bothering the cat sitters to drop what they’re doing and check on her at any hour of the day or night.

This actually sounds like it fits my priorities pretty solidly. I’ll look into Reolink, thanks.

I was honestly leaning more and more toward an off the shelf solution like this. I kindof agree with you about it not being worth it to use a fiddly roll-your-own setup like this, especially with such short notice. Plug and play sounds really attractive.

How do you like the Amcrest cameras and remote monitoring solution? Do they have a good reputation for security I hope? I’m afraid I’m completely in the dark about these types of security camera companies.

Edit: just reread this and saw that you’re running the Amcrest cameras through Frigate. Was that setup something that you think could be done in an afternoon? Or have you had to mess with things often? Simplicity and ease of setup are probably my highest priorities for this.

Does zoneminder handle secure remote connections on it’s own somehow? Or will I need a separate solution to access my LAN while away?

Respectfully, I really dont want this thread to be about my cat so much as the question at hand.

I’ve never messed with home assistant. Is it very simple to set up for a live stream like this? I agree that that the NVR solutions seem like overkill for my needs.

I’ve done some reading on setting up wiregaurd in the past, but havent actually deployed it before either. For a short term solution, opening up a port for it seems like a good compromise.

It is actually a technology question. My cat’s care is being taken care of separately from this solution. This is just a supplementary setup that we’d like to have to be able to see her sometimes while we’re away.