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  • How long do you want to store footage for? With 6 cameras at 8Mbps each, you’d get less than two days of video on a 1TB drive. You could drop the bitrate quite a bit if you use H265 instead of H264, but it’s still not a huge amount of storage.

    Several manufacturers have sites to determine how much storage you’d need based on number of cameras, bit rate and how long you want to store the videos for. Just use any of those to get a rough estimate. Personally I’d recommend a 10TB or larger WD Purple Pro, since it has 512MB cache instead of 256MB.

    For the doorbell, I’d use a proper doorbell cam that can use the existing wires for power. Reolink’s wifi one comes with an adapter to use it with existing wiring.

    The Unifi cameras don’t support ONVIF, so you’re essentially locked into their ecosystem, and it’d be difficult to use them with a different NVR if you ever want to switch. Maybe that’s OK for your use case though.


  • JavaScript has been my favorite language for a decade. Still, I try to make websites server-rendered so that they can be read if my code fails to load or execute

    Have you tried Astro? It’s good for exactly this. You write Astro components that look a little bit like React components, but they’re all rendered either during the build (when using static site generation) or server-side.

    You get the developer experience of a modern JS framework, with the output of a static site with minimal JS.


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    Nothing wrong with a GUI. There’s a reason they exist and have mostly replaced TUIs, with the exception of some developer / power user tools. It’s significantly easier to discover features in a GUI compared to a CLI or TUI for example. The UX can be far richer.

    CLI tools are easier to make due to the simplified UX, but I’m hoping that something we see as a result of increased AI usage is that programs that should be GUI apps are actually built as such, rather than complex CLI or TUI ones.


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    Wow I haven’t heard that name for a long time… The last time I used it, I was using the horrible AMD/ATI fglrx drivers, and Compiz had been forked into a project called Beryl. Looks like that was around 2006 or 2007.







  • They have far fewer perks, so it’s not as common.

    In Australia, most credit cards have an annual fee, and they pretty much all just offer frequent flyer miles. US cards have much better perks: Quite a few offer 2% cashback, cards with points offer more points than Aussie cards, they almost all include extended warranty and rental car coverage, some include mobile phone protection, etc. If you pay it off in full every month, you get these perks for “free”.

    Of course, merchants pay the price for these perks, given the high fees to process credit cards. They can make merchants pay a 3% fee, pay 2% cashback to customers on some of their cards, and still make more money from card fees than they would in other countries. Visa and Mastercard used to require merchants in the US to not charge any extra fees for accepting credit cards, but after a big lawsuit, this is no longer the case. Stores are slowly becoming like Aussie stores - charging extra if you pay by card.

    In the US, it’s also very important to build up your credit score, as this affects loan rates for mortgages, cars, personal loans, etc. Most people build their score by getting a credit card as early as possible and using it often.



  • We’ve had this in Australia since the 90s at least. All debit cards are dual network: They support both Visa/Mastercard, as well as the local network (called EFTPOS). EFTPOS is noticeably cheaper to process - around 0.3% fee, compared to ~1% for Visa/Mastercard debit in Australia, ~1.5% for credit, and ~3% for Visa/Mastercard in the USA. The profits stay in Australia rather than going to a US company.

    That’s only for debit cards, though. EFTPOS doesn’t support credit cards.


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    That’s essentially how the Roman calendar was named for six out of the 10 months:

    • Martius: (Mars)
    • Aprilis: (from aperire, “to open”)
    • Maius: (Maia, goddess)
    • Junius: (Juno, goddess)
    • Quintilis: (Fifth)
    • Sextilis: (Sixth)
    • September: (Seventh)
    • October: (Eighth)
    • November: (Ninth)
    • December: (Tenth)