Just got off work today and as I walking towards my truck I saw a bunch of crud on top of and the back of my truck. “What the hell is that?” Upon closer inspection I realized it was bread crumbs. I’m pretty sure somebody was trying to lure birds to shit on my truck.

In my experience in the last couple of months, most people love my truck, but if the internet has taught me anything is that there really are haters out there and I just ran into my first one. Luckily birds hadn’t had time to find the crumbs yet and they all blew off by the time I got home, but that could have been bad.

I can’t believe somebody took the time to do that, unfortunately I had sentry off because it drains so much battery and 99% of time it’s just somebody staring or taking a picture, but I think I’ll start leaving it on again.

https://archive.is/wip/62Weg

https://www.reddit.com/user/Stew_Pedaso

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  • happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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    6 months ago

    From their comments:

    I cant charge at home so if I use sentry I have to charge every two days instead of every three days. It was just a combination of laziness and complacency, I work 60-70 hours a week so not spending 40 minutes charging was appealing but you’re right, its better to be prepared, especially with such a big investment.

    Investment?

    This is my first new vehicle, I usually buy 20+ y/o cars that only last me 4-5 years. This is the first time it’s going to be me to put that first 100-200k miles on it, so I do consider it to be an investment. Maybe not as good as the S&P, but it gets me to work on time.

    Right, but an investment is an asset you acquire with the intention of making money… is the value of the truck going up?

    In your opinion, to me, the money I’m saving on fuel, maintenance, repairs, and the rule of cool, I’m sitting pretty flat.

    Unfortunately, there will always be haters, trolls, or nay-sayers or whatever we wanna call them. Douchebags, dumpster monkeys, or negative nellies.

    The dangerous ones act out, and even follow-thru with their distorted reality or sick fantasies.

    The human population is no different, we all sit on the spectrum and bell curve.

    Live the life you want, Love the ones you’re with.

    Namaste

    PS: by the way, how much battery life does sentry mode drain? Might be worthwhile to enable it in ‘hostile environments?’

    PSS: I’d consider keeping a cyber-baseball bat in the truck or frunk for those exceptional moments of self-defense.

    It drains about 7% a day.

    It shouldn’t need near that

    I agree, I feel like sentry mode is trying to mine crypto or something. Why is it trail cameras can run off batteries for days but sentry mode straight up uses kwh’s a day to use basically the same technology recording to a usb ssd drive?

    It’s because the cameras are connected to a computer with high end GPUs. This is not a cheap trail cam, it’s a dedicated computer system with advanced image processing abilities and mobile network connectivity.

    [From what I’ve seen recently, the real-time monitoring is limited to one hour per day because it’s uploading an obscene amount of data. Like 60gb I think?]