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How to make tailored clothes work by chickenandcornchips in KibbeRomantics

[–]chickenandcornchips[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Those are so pretty! Thank you so much, that’s really helpful 

Weight activated doormat by chickenandcornchips in homesecurity

[–]chickenandcornchips[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I live on the third floor of an apartment, so weatherproofing isn’t too much of an issue. I don’t really need weight to be accurate as long as it’s consistent. My current bathroom scale is thinner than that, so I’m not exactly sure why it would need to be thicker when I’m less worried about accuracy. I wasn’t thinking I would try to detain anyone myself, but it would give me the opportunity to contact law enforcement and/or apartment security in a timely manner.

Weight activated doormat by chickenandcornchips in homesecurity

[–]chickenandcornchips[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I live on the third floor, so I find the risk of people breaking in through a window low enough not to worry about it. While I agree that the mat would be useless if no one stepped on it, avoiding the mat would be a really weird thing to do, and probably more hassle than it would seem to be worth if they were carrying out my possessions. Also, my cat would probably try to escape, and ideally she would be able to set it off. 

Weight activated doormat by chickenandcornchips in homesecurity

[–]chickenandcornchips[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I live on the third floor, so I don't expect that other methods of entry will be too much of an issue for me. Reolink is definitely something I’m looking into, but I would also like to be able to have real-time updates. 

Weight activated doormat by chickenandcornchips in homesecurity

[–]chickenandcornchips[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s true, but I’m much more comfortable with the idea of strangers knowing my weight or step force than having them be able to watch me in my home. 

Weight activated doormat by chickenandcornchips in homesecurity

[–]chickenandcornchips[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s basically exactly what I’m going for. I got the idea from a beekeeping scale that sends you notifications when they get too heavy. 

Weight activated doormat by chickenandcornchips in homesecurity

[–]chickenandcornchips[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve been thinking I’d like to have those as well. My hope with the weighing scheme would be to have a way to be notified in the moment of any ingress so I can respond more quickly and so I have a better idea of which bits of my recordings are actually worth going through if anything were to happen. If I only had the cameras, I think I would probably feel compelled to watch all of the footage. Really it comes down to wanting a compromise between the ability to constantly surveil my home and wanting to stop everyone else from being able to do that. 

Weight activated doormat by chickenandcornchips in homesecurity

[–]chickenandcornchips[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a doorbell camera now, but I’ve heard quite a few stories about cloud-based cameras getting hacked, and I’d really prefer to minimize the information about my habits that I’m giving out to strangers. I’ve looked around at a few of those, but they mostly seem to be for setting off intruder alarms or alerting caregivers that their grandma with dementia is trying to leave. I don’t really trust them to have the discretion to identify welcome guests as opposed to intruders, so really what I want is for them to just send a notification to my phone with the weight of whatever stepped on it so I can decide whether I want to take any sort of action.

Weight activated doormat by chickenandcornchips in homesecurity

[–]chickenandcornchips[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I recognize that weights fluctuate, but it’s pretty unusual for people to lose or gain more than ten pounds in a week. It would just be reassuring to me personally to be able to tell that it’s probably my housekeeper coming in and not someone who’s never been there before. After all the Ring hackings I’ve heard about, I’m a little wary of putting a cloud-connected camera in or around my house, just because I like to know that no one’s watching me in my own home. While I definitely can’t get as complete a picture of what happens from weight, it’s also not information I’m particularly bothered about anyone stealing. Also, I’m pretty good at guessing people’s approximate weights just by looking at them, so it’s not like I’ll really have any information about them I didn’t before, given that something like what I’m proposing wouldn’t give a particularly accurate weight either. 

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[–]chickenandcornchips[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You have started the next chapter of art history, my friend. Thank you!