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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I have a Reolink PoE camera. It works fine. As far as I can tell, it only uses the internet to check for updates and set the time, but I have it blocked off anyway. Home Assistant was actually causing it to check for updates, too, so that got disabled.
    I don’t record, so I can’t help you there.
    I will say that is a pain to get Home Assistant to display real-time video instead of a slide show.




  • Pillars of Eternity. I really appreciate that they must have had some Anthropology majors on the team, especially for II, because the worlds feel much more exotic than other RPGs. It shows up just how generic Medieval Fantasy most RPGs are.
    The tropical Roparu (?) society with its caste system is particularly interesting. The interaction of the various factions is believable. And of course the pantheon is well though out.
    The downside is that they can be clumsy about exposition of the world - especially in the first one, you get these enormous lore-dumps.