this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2025
103 points (99.0% liked)

Hardware

1121 readers
201 users here now

All things related to technology hardware, with a focus on computing hardware.

Rules (Click to Expand):

  1. Follow the Lemmy.world Rules - https://mastodon.world/about

  2. Be kind. No bullying, harassment, racism, sexism etc. against other users.

  3. No Spam, illegal content, or NSFW content.

  4. Please stay on topic, adjacent topics (e.g. software) are fine if they are strongly relevant to technology hardware. Another example would be business news for hardware-focused companies.

  5. Please try and post original sources when possible (as opposed to summaries).

  6. If posting an archived version of the article, please include a URL link to the original article in the body of the post.

Some other hardware communities across Lemmy:

Icon by "icon lauk" under CC BY 3.0

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
103
Camera owner asks Canon, skies: Why is it $5/month for webcam software? (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
22 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Ideally there should be a requirement for camera manufacturers to interoperate, so they couldn't limit who builds third party software or lenses etc. Proper cameras are probably too niche nowadays for that to happen though

Canon is especially bad about these things though, buy Sony instead