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.

I’m not expecting an ad-hoc camera system to care for our cat while we’re away. We have friends who will be visiting and spending time with her every day while we’re gone. This is just so that we can check on her occasionally while we’re away. Her illness is long term and managed with medications, but that doesnt stop my partner and I from worrying.

Respectfully, I already have separate plans for keeping the cat taken care of. This is just so that my partner, who will miss her very much while we’re away for a few days, can see her occasionally while we’re away.

We have a care plan for the cat. This is just for our peace of mind.

We have a pet sitter that lives down the road and our neighbors are also aware of the issues in case of an emergency. This isnt really for the cat’s wellbeing so much as a bandaid for how much we’ll miss her.

Abdula Ocalan has been in solitary confinement for what, a decade? Two? Literally every message “from him” has to be considered under duress.

Well you asked a question with a complicated answer. Dean Spade is a prolific and respected writer and organizer, and his thoughts on the matter are relatively concise compared to the volumes upon volumes written by his predecessors in anarchist thought.