yes, and a perpetually shrinking labour force counteracts that nicely.

consultants are not the same as lobbyists, one has monetary influence on the politicians the other provides information selectively

the display is much more expensive than the camera so if there is any utility in there being a camer there is no reason to not have it

thry pay employees enough for people to work, if there were fewer desperate labourers and the same amount of work needed to be done they would be forced to pay more

they can already use their phone for that

because there isn’t anything particularly special about it other thsn it being a mass market product

what does yandex even do besides being an independent search engine?

phone cameras can already do that, and the concealment was doable with a raspberry pi zero and its camera

It’s not much different than a kid asking for a playstation or iphone for Christmas

these might not have cell plans, but it wouldn’t be hard to make one with esim support and a panic livestream button so they can’t delete the recording.

recording teachers should be another valid use, you would bot believe the number of times teachers don’t do their legally mandated reporting and brush everything under the rug

this is why advocacy groups are important

in what world is age restricting a relatively normal camera a reasonable decision?

that is neither easy nor quick.

are they though? you’re paying about twice as much and the upgrades/ parts aren’t much cheaper

humans are kinda smelly, I’d rather the carda

the msrp is $250 and it gets similar performance to an rtx 2080

I am impressed by just how powerful that little GPU is for $300

giving a fair bit to hyprland at least

it takea 12 hours and is a once a day train, it really isn’t particularly competitive especially because it is more expensive than the plane