Their products are still solid. Any brand can have issues with their batteries (other companies use the same cells), and I don’t see a reason to avoid their non-battery products like cables and chargers.

I’ve got a PowerCore 20000k (20Ah). I wonder why the 10Ah version is “fire-prone” but the 20Ah version isn’t.

Good catch - I should have said that it’s closer to Windows-style ACLs rather than implying that it’s actually the same.

Windows perms are pretty locked down though. Sometimes I can’t delete my own files because I need permission from “Administrator” :/

You can actually use Windows-style permissions (ACLs) on Linux via setfacl.

How’s it compare to Hoarder/Karakeep?

Because of various privacy legislation, and people not wanting Google to track them as much, they stopped syncing the data to Google servers. As someone who’s worked at big tech companies, my guess would be that storing so many people’s location history was flagged as an issue during a privacy audit.

It’s entirely local now. You can enable encrypted backups and back up the data, however you can really only have the data on one device now, and the web version is gone.

(no taxes on charities).

What type of taxes are you talking about?

That’s the price in Japan - it’d likely be higher in the USA, plus the motherboard itself would also cost more due to tariffs.

If just the board costs $124, then Nintendo charging $175 for replacement seems totally reasonable. $51 for labour isn’t bad.

If you pay for a device, you should be able to do whatever you want with it. Apple having so much control over it means that you don’t fully own it.

had to upgrade due to DDOS

If you keep getting DDoS attacks, then I’d recommend getting DDoS protection from your hosting provider, or using Cloudflare. A lot of hosting providers can provide DDoS protection if you pay a bit extra per month.

They have their systems only they use, therefore they can easily make them on Linux or emulate.

Also, a lot of systems are web-based (and therefore automatically multi-platform) these days.

It’s usually fine if you stick to a good well-known brand, but there’s some cheaper cameras that are bootleg clones of other brands, that can’t run the latest upstream firmware so they’re stuck on a hacked/modified version of older firmware.

The good Chinese brands, if they do have a hard-coded password, usually make you change it on first login. I’m pretty sure newer Hikvision and Dahua models do this (plus their resellers/rebrands like Amcrest, Lorex, Annke, etc). You need to pay more than the garbage brands, but they’re worth it.

Of course, there’s all sorts of junk on Amazon that don’t follow any sort of standards.

Hard-coded default passwords have been illegal in California since 2020, so it shouldn’t be as much of an issue with newer devices. Companies aren’t going to make California-specific versions of their devices, so they’ll often just follow the California standards everywhere.

To be legal in California, the device either needs to have a randomly-generated password unique to that device (can be listed on a sticker on the bottom of the device, or in the manual), or it needs to prompt to set a password the first time you use it.

I still wouldn’t ever expose a camera directly to the internet. Keep it just on your LAN (eg using a VLAN) and VPN in (eg using Tailscale) to connect to it remotely.

There’s a site that lists all the insecure cameras: http://www.insecam.org/

Any camera you expose to the internet with no protection is vulnerable. The issue is just that they’re accessible over the internet without a password.

Follow best practices by keeping your cameras on a separate VLAN that’s isolated from the internet, and you’ll be fine. Use a VPN like Tailscale to view your cameras while away.

Lemmy isn’t anonymous, it’s pseudonomyous.

This doesn’t really work in real life since IPv6 rate limiting is done per /64 block, not per individual IP address. This is because /64 is the smallest subnet allowed by the IPv6 spec, especially if you want to use features like SLAAC and privacy extensions (which most home users would be using)

SLAAC means that devices on the network can assign their own IPv6. It’s like DHCP but is stateless and doesn’t need a server.

Privacy extensions means that the IPv6 address is periodically changed to avoid any individual device from being tracked. All devices on an IPv6 network usually have their own public IP, which fixes some things (NAT and port forwarding aren’t needed any more) but has potential privacy issues if one device has the same IP for a long time.

Most service providers like Vultr provide /64 ip ranges, which provide us with 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 addresses. In theory, we could use IPv6 and rotate the IP address we use for every request, bypassing this ratelimit.

This usually doesn’t work, as IPv6 rate limiting is usually done per /64 range (which is the smallest subnet allowed per the IPv6 spec), not per individual IP.