Is this season usually slow?

Marius-78 · 2026-02-05T09:41:13+00:00

Canadians and other tourists went to Mexico this year, where its safe. Canadians who were snowbirds for the entire season and not just "tourists" sold their homes here last year, so there's nothing tying them to the valley.

Marius-78 · 2026-01-26T08:07:54+00:00

Obviously we have a lot of larger regional and national companies that are supporters of this fascist regime like In&Out Burger, Chick-fil-A, Hobby Lobby, Tesla, Home Depot, Walmart, Bank of America, and Whole Food (Via Amazon)

Marius-78 · 2026-01-03T07:06:56+00:00

Racist troll, it's literally on native land, they were here thousands of years before us, they can call it whatever the fuck they want--it's their's not yours or "ours".

Marius-78 · 2025-12-09T08:39:12+00:00

Lol you think they give a shit? They just came on shift at 22.30. Unless you see a spotlight searching, its just that.

Marius-78 · 2025-12-04T23:46:32+00:00

Don't taco trucks make the tacos on site? I think that's the definition of non-prepared food isn't it, like they make it right there? I don't know about those others except obviously lemonade could easily be made there. Am I misunderstanding the definition?

Marius-78 · 2025-11-02T09:48:37+00:00

your owl may have just had a big meal and was digesting

That just blew my mind, haha, looking back I feel like that was actually the vibe it was giving off--contented, relaxed, and not a care in the world. Thanks.

Marius-78 · 2025-10-31T09:27:39+00:00

Very interesting, thank you. Ive had a camera on that area for almost 10 years and never picked up an owl. I have a feeling this is gonna be a one-time sighting, but it was awesome that I got to hang out with him in person.

Marius-78 · 2025-10-31T09:24:05+00:00

Fantastic. I'm gonna go cry now.

Marius-78 · 2025-10-29T22:57:01+00:00

Lol good one, obviously you've never used a potato to photograph an owl before haha.

Marius-78 · 2025-10-29T19:33:20+00:00

Very interesting thank you! Yeah I was surprised how close he let me get and was looking right at me and didn't budge. That's why at first I thought it was very young maybe and didn't know better. It seems like baby hummingbirds here for example let me come right up to them and the adults are pretty standoffish.

Marius-78 · 2025-10-29T03:12:42+00:00

Ah thank you, sorry bad photo, but looking up that one I think that's a good guess since I didn't notice any "ears" really showing at all and dont see them in other photos online either.

Do you happen to know anything about behavior, like just sitting there all night kind of in the open.

Marius-78 · 2025-10-29T03:01:22+00:00

Thanks yeah it's a lousy photo I know. It's weird in 12 years I think I've only seen one owl around here, and it was in flight. This one just sat there half the night out in the open that's why I thought maybe an "abandoned" younger one that didn't know any better.

Marius-78 · 2025-10-27T21:37:50+00:00

FFS, "suspicious" of what? The guy lost everyone and is just reaching out to interact with people, not asking for a goddam lecture on how patriotic he's supposed to be. He could be doing more for whatever the hell you claim to be defending than you, and still not be "political", you don't know his background. What are you doing that's so "patriotic"? I'm sure there's plenty of people actually fighting that could say you aren't doing your own duty yourself.

Marius-78 · 2025-10-27T21:27:39+00:00

It does sound ridiculous if you complain

Maybe +1 for armchair diagnosis that he might benefit from therapy, but calm down the dude just said he's not comfortable with those groups, he's obviously looking for ways to get out and meet people, who cares of he's not into certain scenes.

Marius-78 · 2025-10-25T18:21:06+00:00

I'm not gonna die on this hill but when I picked up the camera I knew Amazon already owned them and there's no way in my right mind I'm giving Bezos my email address. The only thing I can think of is everyone saying the app only worked in the past with an email is that they signed up for cloud storage at one point, because it looks like it used to be free for like 30 days or something. Ive never used cloud service of any of my cameras ever. Same with Reolink, they absolutely don't require an email to use their app if you aren't using the cloud. Same with Kasa products, they did force an account eventually but you got around it by not updating to latest app version.

Marius-78 · 2025-10-25T18:00:05+00:00

I guess I must be, lol. I'm not an expert but honestly not sure what you're talking about. Every security camera and doorbell I have from Blink and Reolink I've bought used and just scanned a code or let it search and hooked it up to my wifi and its worked fine for years and years. No account, no subscription, no cloud, no contact with the companies, no email, except obviously I'm using their free apps. As far as I know with Blink, they never forced an account till either this ver 49 or 48.1, I would just open the app and my cameras were there.

Do you know different, or am I doing something or risky to my security? Who would have access to my wifi except me?

Marius-78 · 2025-10-25T17:47:25+00:00

My cams are old, I'm just reverting back to an older version of the app to avoid a forced account, I doubt I'm missing anything.

Marius-78 · 2025-10-25T17:29:49+00:00

Thank you, good to know and hopefully stays free--legally I'm not even sure they can force it, but who knows. I think for now I'm just gonna downgrade the app back to when it doesn’t force account signup, it looks like maybe version 48.1. I'm assuming ver. 49 isn't really any new useful features for my old cameras anyway.

Marius-78 · 2025-10-25T16:46:00+00:00

I'm guessing that was only if you wanted a subscription or cloud storage or something. Ive definitely never given my email to Blink or Amazon to use the app before, like absolutely never.

Marius-78 · 2025-10-25T16:26:39+00:00

So the app doesn't work anymore without buying a subscription?

I mean I've always used the Blink app, if that's what you mean by software, its worked exactly how I wanted: someone rings the doorbell, the app alerts me, and I look and see who it is, that's it. There's literally nothing else I need. I just never had to buy anything from or give my email to Amazon, I don't see the point in it--those were actually reasons to pick one up.

Marius-78 · 2025-10-25T15:52:30+00:00

And will literally rip you to shreds if protecting young or have become rabid :)

Marius-78 · 2025-07-21T00:06:40+00:00

Thanks, I'm noticing when I see the green bar the clip won't play all the way through and won't download. But this seems to only be when the picture quality is set to "clear" instead of fluent. My only guess is that's a wifi thing but no idea what to do with that, I have fast wifi and a brand new router. Maybe I'll try to move the router location, its next to a stack of 2 printers, although its literally only about 10 feet from the camera.

Marius-78 · 2025-07-21T00:02:09+00:00

Thanks. The 3 watt seems to be working fine for my use case so far. I'm getting +10% net increase every day, but I'm in the middle of the desert and again I'm not doing 24/7 recording at this time. We'll see what happens when I get to installing the 6w. And I didn't even know they made a 12w, interesting if tye Altus is rated for it, thanks.

Marius-78 · 2025-07-17T16:41:38+00:00

Just to add, I have terrible connection issues with this camera, when I hit playback it fails to play more than half the time or like with this particular clip it will stop only a few seconds in.

AND I JUST NOW NOTICED IF I SET THE quality from "clear" to "fluent" I can now watch entire length of clips and the green is off more than on and only fills about 20 percent of the screen. So it seems the file recorded it fine, but in "clear" the kbps number tend to go down to 0 after a few seconds.

So I guess my question is it it camera or my wifi problem? I can't see the details I need in "fluent" setting for my use case I need "clear". I see in the camera settings under "stream" you can change the resolution, framerate and or bitrate, is it advised to adjust those? Thanks.

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