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This is maybe controversial, but I love the Ubiquiti security stuff. Cameras (interior and exterior) doorbells, etc, it’s all great. Pricey, but you get what you pay for.

And the data can stay local or be accessible via their services.

I chose to go local only, grabbed their UNVR and populated it with 4x 2TB drives and it has enough space to handle 7 cameras HD history for about a month.

When he said that, I instantly felt jealous.

man find

Or if reading isn’t their jam, head to explainshell.

I’m not going to say this shit isn’t hard - it can be challenging starting out if you don’t know where to look. But come on, at this point everyone should know ChatGPT gets shit wrong often enough not to trust it.

First, check https://meshmap.net/ to see if anyone is around. If not, you can be the first (it just will be very quiet).

Next look for a device. I’m partial to this one: https://www.seeedstudio.com/SenseCAP-Card-Tracker-T1000-E-for-Meshtastic-p-5913.html - just make sure whatever you get it’s spec’ed for your region.

Then just download the Meshtastic app on your Android or iOS device and you’re set.

Yup, another vote for brother laser printers. If you’re worried about them applying updates that add DRM to toner cartridges, but you still want network printing you can do one of two things:

1. Give the printer a static IPv4 address and block egress from your router with a firewall.
2. Give it a static IPv4 address but give it a non-functional gateway (e.g. if your gateway is 10.0.0.1, make the printer’s gateway 10.0.0.254)

Heck, do both if you’re paranoid.

Either way it’s not getting updates unless you manually change things or download the firmware updates on your Linux box and apply it that way.