fletchowns

9 ms·

61.
by fletchowns 4y ago
Part of the selling point for me was the cheap cloud storage of video clips and ease of setup & accessing the live views and recordings.
62.
by fletchowns 4y ago
I feel like the person that is going to buy it probably doesn't know they are being cancelled and probably won't bother reading the full description of the item. I know, that's on them to be a more informed buyer. I can'
63.
by fletchowns 4y ago
The complementary Blink Mini is kind of a slap in the face though. I have $1200 worth of Cloud Cams (10 of them @ $120/ea) and they are giving me a $30 camera to get hooked into their new subscription service. How very nice of them...
64.
What to do with all of these Amazon Cloud Cams?
16 points by fletchowns 4y ago|9 comments
65.
by fletchowns 4y ago
I have the CP1500AVR as well. I'm nervous enough now, I'm going to unplug it and order an Eaton this weekend.
66.
by fletchowns 5y ago
Even though you are no longer there...I had a friend who recently had her gmail inbox mysteriously emptied, all emails seemingly permanently deleted. She paid for Google One to be able to talk to support, and they said that the data is gone
67.
by fletchowns 5y ago
Those features are from VirtualBox Guest Additions. VirtualBox Extension Pack, on the other hand, provides support for USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 devices, VirtualBox RDP, disk encryption, NVMe and PXE boot for Intel cards.
68.
by fletchowns 5y ago
It can be helpful on the DIY help videos (home improvement stuff, etc) where the author of the video may have something wrong or dangerous in the instructions. It's not the only indicator since we have comments as well, but it's c
69.
by fletchowns 5y ago
> All the other times, it's causing me frustration and pain. It signals a collision as I am avoiding potholes in a tight one-way street and cars parked on both sides of the road (yep, I am going to slam into that parked car for sure
70.
by fletchowns 5y ago
> It's a dying breed though, complicated "driver assist" systems are becoming standard or even mandated :(. I'm on the opposite side of this. All the new safety & driver assist features are the best part about get
71.
by fletchowns 5y ago
> When and how do you think Mozilla will ever do anything to help the web? Firefox helps the web. MDN helps the web. Mozilla SSL Configuration Generator helps the web. Mozilla has helped the web and continues to do so in so many ways. I
72.
by fletchowns 5y ago
It comes off as very condescending, even if that is not the intent.
73.
by fletchowns 5y ago
I don't think a single infraction of hate speech would warrant any consequences, it would need to be a multiple offenses before punishment is doled out. This punishment could just be a temporary loss of voice communication privileges.
74.
by fletchowns 5y ago
Yes this is a very real issue that would need to be solved by the service I proposed, I specifically called out the appeals process and account hijacking resolution in my original comment due to their importance. It needs to be centralized
75.
by fletchowns 5y ago
You can disable it if you'd like, but nearly everybody leaves it on because it's a pretty fun feature most of the time :)
76.
by fletchowns 5y ago
It's not just the tying of ones online identity to their real life identity that would mitigate this issue though. It's the fact that if a punishment is doled out (voice comms restricted for hate speech, or a ban issued for cheati
77.
by fletchowns 5y ago
Video game industry is massive, and cheating is rampant and ruining peoples experience in game. I don't think it's the craziest idea
78.
by fletchowns 5y ago
In a world of free to play games, cheaters just keep making new accounts. I don't think it can be solved simply by matchmaking.
79.
by fletchowns 5y ago
Yup it's a valid point, that's why I made sure to call out in my original comment. So many little details that would need to be done right in order to make it work. It's an impossible task for every game studio to get all tho
80.
by fletchowns 5y ago
If you get financing on purchasing a car you have to give financial institutions your personal information, I don't see this as being any worse. Even companies that I'd prefer not to do business with have all my personal details,
81.
by fletchowns 5y ago
I seem to recall a certain game that had a shadowban system that just put all the cheaters in the same lobbies together. Might be misremembering that though.
82.
by fletchowns 5y ago
Being able to play Call of Duty without people screaming the N word into my ears regularly would be amazing. Intolerance to hate speech could be something enforced by this hypothetical service as well. Sure I can turn off the death mic, but
83.
by fletchowns 5y ago
> Sending away all of your PII to be verified in games isn’t much better (in terms of intrusiveness) than running anti-cheat software in the first place. In my mind it's much better than running N number of different anti-cheat soft
84.
by fletchowns 5y ago
The phone number is not much of a barrier. I'm a verified player and only queue with other verified players, and I encounter cheaters regularly in CSGO.
85.
by fletchowns 5y ago
I wish there was some well respected third party reputation service that I could prove my identity to (government id, utility statements, etc) and then all games just integrate with this third party reputation service. Sort of an Olympic co
86.
by fletchowns 5y ago
Bars, nightclubs, and music venues scan ids all the time at the door. Sure you don't have to hand it over, but then you are not getting in.
87.
by fletchowns 5y ago
Nobody said anything about only using a computer for gaming. It's just that for many of us, gaming is the only reason we're still running Windows at home on our desktop computers.
88.
by fletchowns 5y ago
Linux is great and a lot of progress has been made on the gaming front lately. However, if you want to play all the latest AAA titles at their highest fidelity, there's no choice but to use Windows.
89.
by fletchowns 5y ago
How was the thief even able to login to your laptop?
90.
by fletchowns 5y ago
I don't think it's speculation at this point. It used to be about who could control the family room TV experience. Now it's about who can control not only the family TV, but also the whole ecosystem of smart devices in the ho

More ›