That was never the argument. You said it was impossible and you HAVE to buy the sketchy ass cloud camera. That's not the case.

As a side note, remember that Ring for a good almost decade allowed remote stalking via their cameras. That's right, MANY people were stalked and it was completely allowed by corporate security policy. That being, any employee had any access to any camera, anywhere.

There is a cost for convenience. People could do with being more technically minded. A few decades ago it was common for a run of the mill secretary to make and run SQL reports. Now people require goo goo ga ga level devices to do anything.

there's a difference between 'If you want internet-accessible surveillance cameras that you can view when you're not home' and 'if a two-dimensional gender stereotype wants internet-accessible surveillance cameras that they can view when they're not at home'

my friend ann was always pretty annoyed when people applied that stereotype to her, unaware that she'd written a commercially successful operating system in assembly language. and most of the things on the list are things my wife does in order to set up gaming servers on our residential cable modem connection

Getting downvoted for pointing out that regular people can't figure out complicated networking workarounds and set up their own DIY internet-accessible cameras... Definitely peak HN.