This is a neat project. Congrats on the release! I’m looking forward to see how this develops!

+1 for BlueIris. I run Linux almost everywhere else, but BlueIris was easy to set up and has been rock solid (I.e. no intervention) on a Lenovo mini pc (I think it’s @ I5 7500T) and 4 Reolink cameras for years.

Every once in a while I think to replace it, but this is one of those things that I haven’t found a compelling reason to follow through on.

Sayal is good for electronic components. Canada Computers is good for electronics. CCs selection is surprisingly good and they have other stuff that you would not really expect (3D printing filament, sometimes legos and other toy kits). Both of these have shops in the GTA.

ShopperPlus is good as well. They are based out of Quebec. If you are looking for cables, toner, and some of the other assorted household and office stuff you would otherwise get from Amazon they are worth checking out.

For other random retailers, I usually check out Shop.app which I think is Shopify’s platform. The stores aren’t all Canadian but depending on what you are looking for, you might find a local source with brick and mortar in the GTA.

I buy stuff from them regularly. Cables, printer toner, some household stuff. Product is shipped from Montreal, but it’s manufactured around the world. I’ve never had a problem with them. Quality of product is good and things generally arrive within a few days of placing an order.

If you want a shave soap to go with them, you can’t go wrong with Macduffs. It’s tallow-based and works better than anything I’ve used. The “Alberta Boys” sent is great.

I migrated from Joplin to Obsidian a year or two ago. It was straightforward. With Joplin, I had to use the export functionality from the desktop app. That cleaned up any non-standard bits and allowed for a straightforward import into Obsidian.

This 100%. I only figured this out 15 years after having started driving.

To add to this I tilt my rear view mirror (the one connected to the windshield) a little bit upwards to force me to sit a bit straighter and taller when I look at it. You slouch less so for long car trips your back ends up feeling a bit better.

I believe in evolutionary biology circles, they call that the great mistake. But hey, you get none of the calories and twice the taste :) /s

This 100%. Here’s a life pro tip: Mr. Clean Magic Eraser is the trademarked brand. The generic product (which is exactly the same thing) is “melamine sponge”.

Depending on where you live, the Magic Eraser is an 4-5X more expensive than the equivalent generic on Amazon or eBay.

This is a great use of tech. With that said I find that the lines are blurred between “AI” and Machine Learning.

Real Question: Other than the specific tuning of the recognition model, how is this really different from something like Facebook automatically tagging images of you and your friends? Instead of saying "Here’s a picture of Billy (maybe) " it’s saying, “Here’s a picture of some precancerous masses (maybe)”.

That tech has been around for a while (at least 15 years). I remember Picasa doing something similar as a desktop program on Windows.