hydrashok

Is uBlock Origin Lite an option for you? I don’t use chrome, but it might work for your needs.

PETER File.

If you have the ability, UniFi makes a good doorbell that keeps recordings on a central controller. I have one at home. Also can do people and package notifications to your phone. The downside is you also need a central controller, but if you have a spare PC or something, you can install it there. Alternatively, UniFi sells dedicated controller hardware that can also be used with their WiFi and other product lines. Hardware costs money but software is free. There are likely other doorbells that record to a local micro sd card, but I have no experience with those.

iPad + Magic Keyboard. It’s my primary device. Pretty easy when you interact with virtually everything in a browser. Plus it gets ridiculous battery life and mine has cellular connectivity. I do still have a Windows box for gaming, but I don’t browse the web with it; it just boots into Steam Big Picture mode.

I work 5 days a week and game, and I have multiple mice that are 20+ years old and still working. (Microsoft Intellimouse FTW.) My job revolves around hardware and lifecycle in a corporate environment. If you’re killing a mouse in 18 months, in my opinion, it is either an extraordinary shitty cheap mouse that shouldn’t have passed QA and you should be complaining to the vendor, or you bought solely because it was cheap expecting greatness, or you’re abusing it to the point of failure. Even the cheap OEM mice will easily last 5 years. If one genuinely uses a mouse that much, then I would leverage the Harbor Freight rule — buy the cheap tool from HF, and if you actually use it enough it breaks, spend the money to get a good one that will last. Better to spend $30-50, even $100, on a mouse every 15-20 years than $10 or band aiding a mouse every 18 months. —————— As I write this and reading the words back before posting, I realize this might sound condescending or come across as angry, but that is not my intention. I would like to be helpful, learn more, and am open to discussion and differing opinions. Just wanted to call that out.

What job or hobby do one have that could possibly reach this threshold?

5,000,000 / (1.5 x 365.25) = 9,126.169 You’re clicking your mouse 9000 times a day? Every day for 1.5 years?

Ah, sorry, that’s not how I read it. Have a great day!

That’s more on you than Plex, though, right? Like do you get mad at Walmart or Home Depot because you bought a tool you never use, or don’t use as frequently as you thought you would? Not defending Plex, I’m just curious.

Right, because he’s equally shit at both.

Man!

If you think that’s bad, just envision all the physiological and existential issues you’re instilling in them! ( /s!) On a serious note I have thought the same thoughts after my interactions with my children. In my opinion, the biggest indicators of a good parent to me are: to be present, to always enable your child’s curiosity and wonder, and to know the difference and when to be a parent and when to be a friend them. None are easy. I only know you from this post, but if you’re self-aware enough to worry about if you’re supporting your child (or any child, for that matter) and consciously reviewing your decisions to learn how to be better, you’re probably a pretty good parent. You got this! Good luck, friend.

Saw the ads for this one and then saw it’s only 500 lumens. Hope you like watching your crazy expensive projector in a perfectly dark room where no one else will see its “style”.