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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023

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  • So I went back and played around with LW to see what all has changed since I last looked at it, and I finally remembered what the fatal “flaw” was for me previously workflow-wise. The reason I’ve come to always rely so heavily on my bookmarking links approach is because it’s just a couple dead simple clicks, and more importantly it works identically everywhere - desktop, mobile, etc. doesn’t matter. The workflow is 100% identical everywhere with no additional apps or anything extra required. Having to open a PWA (or even a separate app if it were native) when I’m on my phone just to save a link is a few more clicks and I didn’t want to have to change up my workflow based on what device I happened to be on at the time I found something.

    However, since I last trialed LW I have made a real hard personal push to switch over to Firefox as my dedicated browser, and while there’s a few things I don’t like as much the ability to run extensions even on mobile is positively amazing. The LW one appears to not be compatible officially, but with a little persuasion appears to work just fine…and if that continues working then I could totally see myself switching over to this! Still poking and prodding and trialing it out, but fingers crossed!
















  • Make sure there is a warranty/decent return policy and test obviously as others have said…but I’ve bought more 3 and 4TB HGST drives than I care to admit and have very rarely had any issues. At the price you can find even larger TB sizes for I personally consider it worth the gamble for certain use cases.




  • These are all pretty good suggestions…a few points I’d add based solely on my personal experiences:

    • A lot of Amcrest’s cameras are pretty solid for the price too. I’ve recently ordered some rebadged Dahuas from empire tech and haven’t used them a ton but so far I’m thinking I’ll really like them.
    • Check out night color cameras. They’re not as “discreet” potentially as they generate their own visible light if it’s pitch black out, but to me that’s actually another security benefit…and the night time performance can be amazing.
    • Blue Iris is another pretty great piece of software. Super cheap for what it offers, and while it’s a little more resource heavy being a full fledged NVR, you can pair it with things like Codeproject.ai and get some amazing results.
    • Double down on getting rid of wifi, if at all possible, and through any and every means possible. I too was initially pretty set on the convenience of wifi, but mixing wifi and cameras just never ends up in a great experience from everything I’ve ever had experience with. The absolute best I’ve ever seen is just “ok”, and usually it’s substantially worse.

    Good luck!!