Ring is flocked (not to mention beholden to Bezos); get rid of your Ring cameras, people.
I have a ring camera. It came with the townhouse and it sucks. We're considering replacing it because it doesn't even consistently work as a door bell because either we keep needing to charge it or it's on too crowded a wireless band, not sure which.
Did you know you have to subscribe to even record videos? Screw that.
Also the privacy concerns, but that ship has sailed in my particular case because both my nextdoor neighbors have ring cameras, as well as at least 3 units across the street.
Reolink, Eufy, and UniFi Protect (if you’re into that sort of thing).
Eufy is the closest to Ring (it’s not perfect, still some concerns, but miles ahead of ring and gives at least a bit more control of your data). It’s convenient to use for sure.
Reolink is ideal if you don’t want to buy into a closed ecosystem and less convenient but probably the most willing to let you control your data.
UniFi would be great, but you get locked into their ecosystem from the jump. Data is all yours, forever, but you have to exclusively use their (overpriced) hardware. And I believe the doorbells need wiring to work. Whether old school 2 wire doorbell wiring, Ethernet cable, or even a USB C cable in the wall.
I have a reolink and it works great! I get all the features that ring puts behind a paywall, plus keep everything local/private.
I'm very happy about it and in the process of expanding the system.
Personally, I have UniFi Protect because I bought them second-hand from work. I REALLY do like them, but the 75 percent discount made it even CLOSE to my budget.
If I had to start again, Reolink and Eufy would be the two I’d compare. Eufy seems easier for my family, but Reolink would be my goal.
I appreciate the suggestions, but last I heard we were looking at the sort of basic battery-operated doorbell you install using 3m strips at your 1890s triple-decker college apartment, no camera or anything half as fancy. I'd be happy with a door knocker (low tech and reliable) if the HOA wouldn't have kittens.
(I know, I know, HOA, but the condo is so much cheaper than renting, and shared governance makes sense when you share a roof.)
Reolink claims their battery doorbell can last 300 days on one charge and Eufy sells a doorbell with 2 batteries so you can swap out without forgetting to put the battery back in after it charges. If you’re in a townhome, interference could definitely be a problem and Reolink can use 5 GHz wireless which, for a townhome, should be able to get to the door.
Not trying to sell you on a video doorbell for sure, but if you like the idea, I think there’s options that work a bit better than Amazon can do.
What really gets me is part of its purpose is letting you know you got packages, IE, from Amazon, but then it does not detect Amazon drivers, because I assume they have some sort of jammer.
Any door bell camera that has online access is potentially compromised or soon will be.
AI slop
I don't doubt it's made with AI as all door camera images are, however, I would never trust another AI to tell me. The fact that it reports it as such makes me think that it isn't now.
i'm not sure but i think that detector might be detecting an openai-specific watermark which indicates that it was not a ring camera's slopification but actually a fake. or maybe the detector itself is fake and the image is real, who knows.
in any case, fuck this meme for normalizing ring cameras and acting like they're cool and ok - there are lots of reasonable ways to do video surveillance of your own home without sending all of the data to amazon and the cops and the various other private and government entities they share it with.
people with ring cameras should be shamed.
Yeah that’s how they work. All of the AI image generators watermark it. It’s extremely easy to detect with software.
That doesn’t mean a whole lot though because a LOT of stuff is just small edits using AI. Like removing any easily identifiable information (like removing license plates or addresses, etc) will throw the watermark on.
Not all AI images are watermarked.
This is not a regular ai detection ai, which have the accuracy of you local fortune teller
This is a tool by openai that detects their synthID watermark, which is a noise pattern that is cryptographically encoded with a key that only openai has
It's possible that the image was just edited by openai, but given the simplicity of the image and the popularity of ring camera memes, I doubt it
Sure, but I also don't trust anything by openai
I don't want it to be AI anyway so that's fine with me.
Omg! It's a reverse hallucination!
I want to see the proof it's AI, those websites are usually just AIs that tell you an image is made by another AI... except for an handful
See my other reply
That, there, is the stride of pride.
I keep mistaking you for an admin because of your profile photo. Is that intentional?
There's profile photos?
Yep! 
Depending on which client you use it may or may not show in thread view. I think they always show if you view a user's profile page though.
Nope, not intentional, I wonder if that's common. I'll consider changing it.
Thanks. I can virtually guarantee I'm not the only one, but it doesn't surprise me to hear the implication I'm the first to mention it; I'm generally very outspoken and direct.
Whatever they did, I hope the costume never came off.
That is what I said, taking furries to the next level baby!
Poor dino guy. Hope he made it back home okay.
The real reason the dinosaurs died out. (from the "walk of shame"!)
"Sneaking out at 6AM"
Bro had to be at work by 6:30. Not his fault you didn't wake up in time to see him go.
Luckily, he works as a dinosaur.
Beside that, he is the commander of an army squad who's members were falsly convicted of a crime but escaped prison to become soldiers of fortune and help those in need.
Please tell me you banged him while he was wearing his costume. Taking furries to the next level baby!
she did say "still wearing"
Scalies are already a thing.
Of course I wasn't thinking what is that rule 34, I forgot all about it.
Oh no! Don't let me Google that. Might wake up something in me. /S
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