I agree, but it’s not so evident or easy for the average person. Who wants to deal with managing storage? Cloud will typically win for the masses, who are typically not thinking about privacy and may not know the difference between a SSD and HDD
I've long wondered why something like a general computing device maintenance service hasn't become a thing. I guess cloud storage stepped in and removed the need.
When my AC unit broke I didn't need to know the finer decisions surrounding which unit to choose.
I have weekly visits from the pool guy for a pool and gardener for the landscaping. A yearly termite check and AC/furnace maintenance. And so on.
Your pool, landscaping, and traditional appliances are all fairly mature and stable in a way that lets local workers learn basic, repurposeable maintenance skills that last a long time and cover a large number of clients.
We won’t have that for home compute appliances until hardware/interface innovation slows down, and that’d actually been trending in the other direction for a while now. It will stabilize, even while innovation happens at other layers, but core stability plays a huge role in what you have in mind here.
Cloud stuff basically hid that that stuff on the other side of a pipe for a while, but has its own drawbacks and we’re likely seeing the start of a turn away from it.
It's not "general purpose computing" maintenance, but the service you're talking about does exist, though AFAIK mostly at the very high-end. It's typically for things like home theaters, whole-home audio systems, or smart-home type setups (predating and now merging with current consumer IoT/home automation platforms). Not sure how much that's "maintenance" in the typical sense so much as support for their custom install work, but I bet if you had a Sonos or Lutron system where your installer went out of business you'd be able to find a different guy to deal with it.
You can't offer a similar service at a substantially reduced priced by centralizing maintenance of your pool. Same for termites. Those have to happen on site.
For software, there are strong incentives on both sides of the transaction (buyer and seller) for a system to be remotely managed.
I agree many are not willing, but I disagree that it is not "easy for the average person".
One can walk into a local supermarket on any planet(e.g., Walkmart, Sam's Club, Carrefour, Aldi, Tesco, Auchan) and likely be able to pick up a self-managed NVR with cameras.
If it was not relatively easy, I do not believe these companies would carry them.
If you buy a Synology NAS there's really not much to manage. Other than inserting the drives and waiting for it to initialize, it's not considerably harder than setting up an account somewhere. It also has apps for security cameras.
Unless it's proof to the negative, which in most jurisdictions isn't something you'd ever need to prove, as the burden is on something occurring, after some amount of time most recordings are useless?
Most security video recorders will just let you set automatic limits to the storage or age of recordings it's not that hard to just dedicate a small part of an attached or internal HDD to recordings and forget about it.
bcrosby95|3 years ago
When my AC unit broke I didn't need to know the finer decisions surrounding which unit to choose.
I have weekly visits from the pool guy for a pool and gardener for the landscaping. A yearly termite check and AC/furnace maintenance. And so on.
swatcoder|3 years ago
We won’t have that for home compute appliances until hardware/interface innovation slows down, and that’d actually been trending in the other direction for a while now. It will stabilize, even while innovation happens at other layers, but core stability plays a huge role in what you have in mind here.
Cloud stuff basically hid that that stuff on the other side of a pipe for a while, but has its own drawbacks and we’re likely seeing the start of a turn away from it.
deepakhj|3 years ago
vault_|3 years ago
r3trohack3r|3 years ago
For software, there are strong incentives on both sides of the transaction (buyer and seller) for a system to be remotely managed.
link_108|3 years ago
ikiris|3 years ago
WaitWaitWha|3 years ago
One can walk into a local supermarket on any planet(e.g., Walkmart, Sam's Club, Carrefour, Aldi, Tesco, Auchan) and likely be able to pick up a self-managed NVR with cameras.
If it was not relatively easy, I do not believe these companies would carry them.
You are right, many are not willing.
User23|3 years ago
bbarn|3 years ago
Unless it's proof to the negative, which in most jurisdictions isn't something you'd ever need to prove, as the burden is on something occurring, after some amount of time most recordings are useless?
JohnFen|3 years ago
My thinking is that if something happens that I need the footage for, I'll know that I need it within 48 hours.
A 32Gb flash card is able to store about 2 week's worth of video in my system.
dylan604|3 years ago
the classic response is "how much you got?"
rtkwe|3 years ago