people will just find a new brand that doesn’t fuck up the bootloader
Yep, and right now, the Google pixels are the ones that have an unlockable bootloader and have the most features. Some of the pixels have microphone jacks, making them the only phone I know of that can be used in North America that has both a microphone jack and unlockable bootloader.
We used to be able to use the Exynos Samsungs. It was great. Unlockable bootloader, microphone jack and sdcard. Carriers then fucked us by changing the frequencies so the European Samsungs don’t work anymore. Now you can’t get a phone that has an unlockable bootloader, an sdcard and a microphone jack and also have it work on North America. Shit sucks.
I like XFCE. It feels like a retro early 2000s-like gui and is up to date enough to be reasonably usable. Would be nice if there was a way to get a search bar in the start menu and window snapping (that thing where dragging Windows to the edges of the screen makes them resize to take up half the screen).
I’m running esp32 cameras on zoneminder. They don’t make esp32 compatible cameras without the ir filter but I found one seller that sells them with only a little blop of superglue holding it together. The ir filter is also at the back where it can be carved out with a knife instead of at the front of the lense where it’s 100% impossible to remove. They probably get paid money by smart camera manufactures to not sell ir filter removable cameras.
The night vision isn’t very good because the maximum exposure the camera can do isnt very high but it’s still a hell of a lot better than the conventional options of either 1)an affordable smartphone app based camera that spies on you or 2) a “proper” rtsp camera that can cost over $700 just for a non wireless non night vision one. I bought a ir led light bar to immuninate the fuck out of it which works well enough.
Until they start doing a more effective job at cracking down on sellers selling ov2460 cameras that have an easily removable ir filter, this is the best option for now.
Pretty soon you’ll be required to get one of these as a condition of employment. Just watch.