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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    I'll title this post "Oregon follies". They're coming so fast that maybe the state should have its own thread. The Portland area has about a half dozen special taxes, like to subsidize the arts and preschool for all. This headline is about the tax for cleaning up the climate, which is a...
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    The official "WTF" thread

    I wonder if Oregon will use the same clever solution as last time? If you're not familiar, explanation + video is here. The Exploding Whale We must never forget.
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    true cloud hosting for ip cameras

    Does this have anything to do with the cloud? Am I missing something? I see it as just remote access.
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    Do you all agree with this statement regarding different focal lengths?

    This might be ok for city dwellers and indoor use. On my several acre property, a 2.8mm camera is useless. A few locations work with 3.6, but 6mm is the most useful.
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    Money & Economics

    I'm certainly one who denounces social media content because I think most of it is agenda driven phony. Sure there's some ok posts, but how do you separate them from the junk without spending hours of research? In a way it's similar to when we have a windy day and I get hundreds of false IVS...
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    Money & Economics

    Maybe it's a local thing because I've concluded the opposite. The local outlets by me often pull rumors and videos from social media and report them as news. Fully agree. The legacy media isn't the powerful gatekeeper that it used to be. Your gut IMO is correct. I don't know if either one...
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    The official "WTF" thread

    One description I've heard is that the new cars are smartphones with wheels. My newest is a 2019 model and the poorly designed electronic crap drives me batty. I have a list of "favorites", just sharing one is that the very loud seat belt dinger continues dinging when the car is stopped and in...
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    Money & Economics

    Gosh, I'm not wanting you to waste your time on that. I'm just pointing out that for every statistic driven conclusion, there seems to be an opposite one. I see both sides as agenda driven propaganda, which constitutes most of the statistic driven news reports and social media posts.
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    Money & Economics

    This would seem to contradict the Cato report cited in post #3034. Wouldn't surprise me if they started with the same statistics and warped them into opposite directions. Analysis: Over Half of Immigrant Households Are on Welfare War of the charts!!! <<Breitbart Cato>>
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    Dashua DVR, with cameras, new house, no pass

    Even if it has a reset button?
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    OMG Thermal!

    To me, the best solution is a thermal and 4k/t or 4k/x at every camera location. With somebody else's money of course. Practically nothing gets undetected by the thermal camera, and rain and snow don't blind it. Big spiders? Calls for the flamethrower picture that's sometimes posted.
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    Money & Economics

    Hey, I have a patent on this algorithm. Need to sue somebody!
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    Linux Users - What is your favorite distribution and why?

    Somewhat off topic but related in the big picture. I received a gift of a bird feeder with a built in camera. To use the camera I have to load a chinese app on the cell phone, then create an account with a chinese company, and give them my wifi password for the camera to connect. No thanks...
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    Linux Users - What is your favorite distribution and why?

    I've been using Mint Cinnamon for a few years on a couple of laptops and have no regrets. At the time I chose it, it was the most windows-like distribution, which may or may not be true any more. I can also boot win10 on the laptops and rarely do. A rule I have is to never boot win10 with the...
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    Cables for less Experiance?

    I guess I'm a minority, I've used about 8 different colors and don't run any two of the same color in conduits that carry multiple cat6 lines. Makes it easy to ID the wires running in the crawlspace or in buried boxes outside.
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    Money & Economics

    Well, that didn't last long! Still heading down at the moment, but I wouldn't want to predict what it does even 5 minutes from now.
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    Money & Economics

    I think interpreting this info, even if it's correct, takes more than meets the eye. First of all, I took this report as supporting illegal immigration, my bad. It includes both legals and illegals, which begs the question how do they know how many illegals are here or there economic...
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    SD4A425DB-HNY PTZ focusing

    Something else to try. I obviously set it to the zoom I thought was most aesthetically pleasing for the BBB (Big Beautiful Birdfeeder ;)).
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    SD4A425DB-HNY PTZ focusing

    No luck with the Size Ratio, and I also tried moving the feeder around in the frame. My firmware version is the same as yours. I should have added a non-focus picture in the first post. I would have thought it focuses in the middle of the frame, but the algorithm must be different. It does...
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    SD4A425DB-HNY PTZ focusing

    I have a SD4A425DB-HNY PTZ (the mini PTX with a dome). I set up a preset to look at a bird feeder, and every time it goes there it autofocuses on tree branches behind the feeder, leaving what I want to see blurry. I can "fix" this by disabling auto focus on the camera, then every time I...
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