Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "Arlo cameras take the L with disposable junk" video.

  1. Ooooh, nice purr microphone... xD So yeah, totally agreed, among the major reasons why I don't buy any IoT crap, and that I also don't go for Internet connected appliances. The way I see the vast majority of IoT crap is stuff that people in the tech community, blogs, channels, etc, advertise and try to sell a lot, but ultimately most really smart people who actually work with tech would never touch those with a 10 foot pole because by now the vast majority of them have already been burned by cases like this Arlo camera, or the baby camera that spied on kids, or the smart home system that stopped working, or the smart assistant that recorded voices even when it was supposed to be off, or the smart ringing bell that recorded and sent videos directly to police, or the smart hub system that was a nightmare to setup and suddenly stopped working after an update, or all the security cameras with a hard coded easy to find out admin and password account, etc etc etc to infinity and beyond. If you tell me an oven, microwave, blender, whatever needs an app to use, I steer clear from it. Needs an account? Even worse. Needs proprietary cloud service connectivity? GTFO. Each single step of those the thing looks more and more like eWaste to me. It feels like I'm buying disposable junk only to have an endless string of problems until I finally decide to get rid of it. One more crap to be pissed off about because of poor costumer service and abusive post sale treatment. I don't have a particular huge need for security cameras right now even though I've been interested in testing them for a while now, perhaps not for myself but for family members, friends and whatnot. I kinda kept track about news on them and researched a bunch of stuff on it for almost the past decade or so. I even understand how convenient some cloud stuff is with app and ready all in one packages are, but personally I'll never vouch for any solution that is proprietary, has a closed impossible to audit firmware, uses no common open standards, requires subscription payments, requires proprietary software and app to use, is tied to a single company cloud service, among other items. Priority for something like a security camera system to me is longevity and flexibility to use. I'm not about to drill holes, pass cables and do all sorts of stuff to install crap that might stop working in less than a couple of years. Oh, which is something required because I'd never trust wireless systems for stuff like that. The time I'd spend doing all that is more valuable than whatever convenience I'd trade, whatever deal these companies are promising. That's not even mentioning privacy and security issues, dependence on update cycles, all the headaches you get with those. Internet of Things is really Internet of Trash. But you know, we've been saying this long before even the name came out, that it was an extremely bad idea to overcomplicate stuff and connect it to the Internet for a modicum of convenience. It's sometimes already bad enough to try shoving basic non connected electronic stuff in appliances that don't need it, making it Internet connected is several times worse that. Anyways, back to security cameras, last time I was looking into this more than a few years ago the base idea was to get IP cameras compatible with some open standard like ONVIF and pair it with a home server or NAS for monitoring, with some open source software, locally. I remember some of the names for software... iSpy, Shinobi, Kerberos, Zoneminder. Never got to the point of actually testing it, and I understand it's way more finnicky and complex than just getting one ready to use commercial package, plus cameras compatible with these tends to be more expensive not to mention having to bank for the local storage solution, but it's the only acceptable route for me personally.
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