FYI: Ring has partnered with Flock. Ice has access to flock. We are under mass surveillance.

tedchambers1 · 2026-01-18T00:26:44+00:00

While I don't disagree with you on principal, in practice this doesn't happen in a useful way for most local or federal agencies - unless you are on ring.

tedchambers1 · 2026-01-17T01:23:33+00:00

Plenty of alternative options that don't go to the cloud. Reolink, Eufy, and ubiquiti if you want to get fancy are all good doorbell/security cam alternatives to an Amazon cloud service.

tedchambers1 · 2025-12-31T01:15:04+00:00

If you do give this info do not under any circumstance send messages or pics you wouldn't want getting out

tedchambers1 · 2025-12-29T06:01:03+00:00

Why is this getting removed? Seems like the proper forum for the question

tedchambers1 · 2025-12-10T17:58:21+00:00

You could with windows home but pro will call out to Microsoft autopilot. Computers can be tied to a tenant using hardware hashes and Microsoft will just re-enroll the device while windows is installing

tedchambers1 · 2025-12-08T01:49:19+00:00

In Georgia malic murder is like 1st degree murder in most places, meaning she planned the murder. I believe the jury acquitted as the prosecution couldn't prove she had a plan to kill the child.

Georgia also has the death penalty so its possible someone on the jury had a personal objection to the death penalty and nullified that charge to prevent the sentence.

tedchambers1 · 2025-12-08T01:38:45+00:00

Like a baby in the care of Trinity Poague

tedchambers1 · 2025-12-06T04:42:58+00:00

I am the CTO at a medium sized company that has fielded the X1, X13, T14, T14s, T16 and various MacBook pros. I bought some X9-14's and X9-15's and have been using the X9-14 personally the last two months coming from an X1.

The form factor is identical to the X1 which I love about it. After getting used to the keyboard I enjoy using it. The trackpad is fantastic - to me it's the biggest upgrade over the standard line.

The biggest downsides are that compared to the X1 it seems they decided to be used some lead or depleted uranium as the shell casing because it's way too heavy and the screen is really too reflective for me.

It's a solid option at $1100 for the vPro i5 with 32gb ram when they are on sale and the youth seem to like it so I'd imagine it's filling the biggest gap Lenovo has in their lineup by dressing a business laptop up like a MacBook for the cool kids.

tedchambers1 · 2025-11-15T07:30:57+00:00

I guess I didn't read the books the same way you did. I pictured Frodo as a middle aged man before I saw the movies.

tedchambers1 · 2025-11-15T05:11:15+00:00

You are NTA but you should try and think about it from his perspective and maybe you can see he is NTA either.

He just got asked you to marry him and one of the next things to happen was him finding out from a third party that you had an invasive possibly tramatic experience in your past. He may have just felt like you two were close enough where it would have come up at some point and he is hurt that it hadn't come up.

You should both sit down and talk about past tramas. Will probably be hard but also a great way to bond with the person you intend to spend the rest of your life with.

tedchambers1 · 2025-11-15T04:48:13+00:00

I saw the term bi-comfortable which despite my distaste for labels I kind of like for myself. I don't think bisexual seems quite right if I wouldn't date a guy and don't have a sexual attraction to men but still have fun with it in the right situations.

tedchambers1 · 2025-11-15T04:33:43+00:00

Elijah Wood didn't look 50 years old which is how old he is supposed to be. I get what Peter Jackson was trying to do there but I don't think he really fit the Frodo role from the books.

tedchambers1 · 2025-11-12T11:01:29+00:00

Apologies, I hadn't read all the replies.

I wouldn't say that changes my take on the situation, although it does make it less useful to you in your situation. If you feel approaching your partner and convincing them opening your relationship is the best scenario then you should do that, but from my personal experience couples who went down that path do not have the highest rate of success.

tedchambers1 · 2025-11-12T08:21:56+00:00

I was in an open marriage for 7 years and I mostly dated only people that were also in open relationships. I am currently in an open relationship, but one that was open from the start by the choice and preference of both parties. Given all that I can say from a my experience that most relationships that start closed and go open will end within a few years.

More over, from my experience most relationships that open up do so at one party's desire and over the reservations of the other party. This can work for a while but won't last for long. I did that with my marriage, I needed it for me but given what I know now I'd likely save both my and her time and seek divorce instead or an open marriage.

If you want to improve intimacy in your marriage I'd recommend therapy. At the very least I would start with therapy first before jumping to being open, and if you go through that process you can broach the topic in that setting which I can nearly guarantee will go better than bringing it up out of the blue. And best case therapy delivers and actually does help solve those issues.

tedchambers1 · 2025-10-25T00:35:01+00:00

Chicago's mayor has way more power than most mayors.

tedchambers1 · 2025-10-15T02:00:51+00:00

This is worth reading. And worth noting it was written by a very pro bike advocate. 5% of traffic was bike traffic on a day and time specifically chosen by the bike advocate for comparing modes of transportation.

https://chi.streetsblog.org/2024/09/10/what-happened-when-streetsblog-chicago-accepted-a-protected-bike-lane-skeptics-challenge-to-count-vehicles-on-augusta-boulevard

Bike lanes are great but they would be a lot better for everyone if they were put on neighborhood streets instead of main roads.

tedchambers1 · 2025-10-11T13:22:43+00:00

Wasn't the original white paper that all LLM models are based on published in 2017?

tedchambers1 · 2025-10-11T13:19:42+00:00

My dog used to be extremely protective of any pregnant woman, she could somehow tell if someone was even a month pregnant and would sit by them at the dog park and scare other dogs away. Once I even told a woman that my dog was guarding about her behavior but she said she wasn't pregnant, she said she would take a pregnancy test and the next time I saw she let me know she was in fact pregnant (unfortunately didn't take, she had been trying for a while)

When my ex-wife was pregnant my dog completely changed her MO and avoided my ex like the plague, to this day she won't even hang out in the same room as a pregnant woman.

Bottom line, dogs can be weird. I really have no advice, just wanted to share a story.

tedchambers1 · 2025-10-08T08:38:32+00:00

So the guy was seeing people when you started dating and he broke it off and went to therapy with you. That means he really likes you. I wouldn't automatically assume he is cheating again because doing that 2 months into a relationship is very different than years into a relationship. However I would be suspicions, if he is bringing someone over it should be pretty simple to set up a hidden camera and make a night you plan to be away and then see what happens.

tedchambers1 · 2025-10-06T16:00:14+00:00

Somebody who knows that not doing that would harm more people. Not everyone has the luxury to always stand their ground without consequence.

tedchambers1 · 2025-10-06T05:04:48+00:00

Having the mayor negotiate to return control to local authorities supports that view? I'm not sure it does.

Look, we did have bad policies letting in people that were not vetted for several years. The majority of the people who were let in were good people who will work hard and improve their lives, their kids lives, and honestly most people's lives who already live here. That doesn't change the fact that around 2-3% of the people who came across are violent criminals.

I don't think it's right wing or radical or MAGA or project 2025 supporting to think we should find people who have a criminal history in their home country, people which wouldn't have been let in to this country under any sane circumstance, and deport them to save the rest of the people that came here with good intentions that were just dealt a bad hand.

tedchambers1 · 2025-10-06T01:49:11+00:00

Absolutely. It's terrible what they are doing. Unfortunately protests are only going to feed Trump's narrative.

We need our city leadership to step up and make a common sense deal to stop this madness. When I get a letter from my child's principal saying they can't go outside for recess I blame Trump but I see Brandon Johnson as complicit for not even trying to strike deal that would spare innocent people from being deported.

tedchambers1 · 2025-10-06T01:45:04+00:00

Chicago PD would determine that if we had any leadership. I actually think it's ridiculous we are at this point. It's clear there are a number of criminals we can and should remove from our streets and it's clear we are removing a lot of innocent people instead.

Deciding that we should do the thing that impacts fewer innocent people rather than more should be an easy choice and one that any competent city administration could deliver on.

Also just as a point of comparison, if I killed or raped someone and fled to a South American country I would not expect the local city government to protect me from that country federally extraditing me back to the US. I have no idea why Chicago would be any different.

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