Post by @piepants@famichiki.jp

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- buy a cheap IP camera because you hear there’s open source firmware

- the only open source firmware is thingino, which is slop

- well shit, if it’s my only choice I guess that’s it

- reach for it months later for a specific important thing

- it doesn’t connect to wifi even though nothing has changed about the network

- the reset procedure doesn’t work at all

- all of the new docs are extremely LLM slop instructing you to do things that don’t work

- all of the old docs are from 2024 and also don’t work

- the docs for doing remote access on the camera, an extraordinarily common thing if you don’t have a host that can act as a stream collector, are just the text “placeholder” and a blurb elsewhere about how I may or may not have to recompile from source to do this

- fucking hell where’d I put the flashing cable, I’m going back to stock firmware

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Andrew :hokkaido: :famichiki:
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@zzt unfortunately ESPHome is also now full of slop. But it's damned if I do, damned if I don't in 2026.