but saying it’s an invalid purchase because it’s a toy is pretty silly.

It would be pretty silly to say that, wouldn’t it? Luckily it’s not something I said.

What is life if you aren’t spending some of it on stuff you enjoy doing?

Framing it as depriving myself is an interesting approach, but as much of an egotist as I am, the equation is a smidge more complicated than that. Because I don’t spend money on toys it was not a source of stress when both my wife and I needed some dental work done last month. Sure, I’d like to have fun, but I’d also prefer not to stress about money when big expenses pop up. I spend a bit on myself here and there but I remember the '90s and compared to then I am absolutely drowning in entertainment. It’s truly magical.

…but that means that if an entertainment experience of some kind is priced higher than a certain point then I’m just not that fussed passing on it. My Steam Deck has plenty of life left in it yet!

As I said, how they arrive at the price isn’t something I care about. They could be making a loss or a killing and it’d be all the same to me.

They can set the asking price to whatever they want but I have zero interest in the “why” in terms of a high price, which for me is anything over about £450. Anything more than that and it simply isn’t appealing to me. I don’t care whether that’s reasonable or not in terms of their costs. My wallet cannot in any form justify anything more on what is primarily a toy. It’s one of the reasons I don’t have a current gen console but have had at least one from each generation going back to the mid 1990s.

If you ask more than I’m willing to spend, no sale. Sorry, guys.

Nice! I’ll update my container and give it a go.

Hmmm, an RPi with a camera might well work. The problem there is more the amount of work I’d need to do - I haven’t got that kind of time right now.

An honest answer that it’s not currently easily doable is in and of itself useful.

This is a “nice to have”. I figured I’d ask preemptively so that I didn’t go down a blind alley. Thanks!

I would be buying. The cam I borrowed wouldn’t fit the setup I want, I just mentioned it because I want that functionality but without the hassle of pulling the SD card.

So far it doesn’t sound like what I want exists, unfortunately.

That essentially boils down to “build your own solution”, which under my current circumstances amounts to “don’t do it”. Not that I lack the skill or will but the spare time and energy I have is used on my baby daughter. I can’t justify rabbit holing on something like this.

It’s why I created this thread - to see if there’s a software and hardware combo that solves this with minimal additional work.

WiFi would be easily sufficient. We’re talking a distance of 10m from my router, tops.

I borrowed a camera - it’s not the one I would be using for this.

That’s why I’m asking. I haven’t bought anything yet and don’t want to get the wrong thing.

That would be possible, yep.

If it helps kill the damn thing, excellent.

They want how much for an Xbox‽

I’d pay maybe £150 at this stage. Ye gods.

They took out H264 hardware support?

I used to be a hardcore PC gamer, twenty years ago, but as the years went by I found that the costs just got silly. Graphics cards have cost silly money for several console generations now. However if there’s a common platform that’s good enough, I’d be interested.

I love my Steam Deck but a bit more power would be great for a few things (notably Fallout London).

Ooh, that’s a useful thing to know about! Thanks!

You’re getting ragged on but I would very much prefer an approach with these things that used some sort of modular system.

I’m imagining the service would have the option for “address for communication bridge” and it’d pass messages to it using JSON or something. The communication bridge would then decide which medium that would go through (email, SMS, smoke signals, whatever the owner configures).

As far as the service is concerned messages come and go (or just go) and how that side of things works isn’t its problem. It’d also mean that one could configure fallback messaging mediums and use dummy ones for if one doesn’t want anything like that (much like the “emails print to the console” debug tool Django has).

House of Cards got to you too, eh?

I don’t know what’s worth tagging and what isn’t. I don’t know which tags are popular and so have followers vs. which ones aren’t.

The information exists but isn’t presented anywhere convenient.

If I have to do homework before posting a picture I’m massively more inclined not to bother, which isn’t particularly good for the Fediverse.

I would love something that could give me suggestions for relevant and popular hashtags for my content.

I’m confused as to how people with English as a second language even learn the word “costumer”. It’s reasonably obscure!