This sounds particularly useful to me. As a shut-in. Not a vampire.

There is a much larger market for this tech - parents. Today's world is so crowded, kids or parents can be separated by less than 20 feet and devolve into panic. Give them each a way to know they're safe and can be found. You're already awesome, wish more people could share like you have, magnificent designs!

How did they not say "fire sale"??

And this is why https://www.floppydisk.com/ is still doing well.

Not to mention rs-232

RS232 has adjustable frequency whereas USB can't be configured this way, making it useless for GPS devices used for time synchronization and such.

R for reboot /s

"The engineer(s) that wrote the offensive code were almost certainly not idiots."

Bold statement, but closer to accurate than the first impression.

Also they're frequently arrested, and if their "belongings" are unsafe (biologically contaminated, disgusting) they'll be discarded or ignored by police, if the person hasn't seen the police coming and thrown their belongings aside in the hopes of coming back for them later. Sad all around.

TIL that the uncanny valley can apply to mathematics.

How do you setup OBS to keep the recording sizes tolerable?

I've used this before on engineering grade machines, but it doesn't do so well on "everything is in the cloud so you can use a word processor quality" laptop, any advice?

I have a 4k display but record to 1080p, bit blurry but I'm not really using it to find small copy of text, but to see general state of things. Recording in 20fps as well.

I have a small shellscript that takes all video files recorded by OBS, and runs them through this ffmpeg command:

    ffmpeg -i in.mkv -map 0:v -vf mpdecimate,setpts=N/FRAME_RATE/TB out.mp4

Using mpdecimate removes duplicate frames, so if nothing is happening on your screen (although smaller changes gets ignored, like my clock showing the seconds), it removes those duplicate frames.

So one ~1 minute video of you thinking for 40 seconds can get reduced to 20 seconds. Not uncommon for some of my video files to go from multi-GB to just ~100 MB when removing all the pauses.