potatopotato
Yeah the FPV community is way better because they actually have to know what they're doing mostly. They're mildly noncompliant but only regarding the regs that shouldn't apply to the size of stuff they fly; RID, registration, and BVLOS don't make sense for airframes lighter than a goose. They tend to avoid other people because they understand the public is wary of drones and they're wary of Karens and untrained cops. They put far more hours on their airframes than any of the other amateur operators but every single time I've been near a drone doing something dangerous, stupid, or annoying it was a DJI.
Just get the lead free solder and no clean flux, it's much less cancer
IDK, most of the kits require soldering (because the industry is fundamentally braindead) and if you go look at the various online communities, you'll quickly see that this is one hell of a filter.
Install TempleOS
As you've probably seen you can buy semi dumb security cameras from Armcrest/Loryta/Empiretech/whatever that'll run off of a barrel jack and/or Ethernet cable. Most of them have the option to insert an SD card and they'll event log to that, at which point just don't plug in the Ethernet cable except to manually pull recordings.
One other thing to think about is maybe consider "Frigate NVR" running on a pi or something and connected to cameras on it's own wifi or Ethernet network that's isolated from the Internet and your LAN. It'll make local access easier because as with just about anything security related you'll want to periodically check to make sure it's actually working. You should be able to setup the pi to serve as the WiFi access point for all this.
Honestly from my experience this could be chainsaws alone. They're by far the worst thing I've come across as a lefty and I'm fairly ambi. Most other chiral two handed power tools either don't matter as much or can trivially be swapped around like angle grinders, trimmers, etc.
If you want to play true Scotsman, the embedded devs like to make fun of the web devs for being scared of bitfields and refusing to do logic with anything other than string matching and manipulation.
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Secretly it's partially because we're absolutely terrified of strings in any form and simply refuse to use them.
There are a lot of sub disciplines to the field, some benefit a lot from GPT or blindly copying from SA, some don't, but that's ok either way. Keep your skill sets broad and you'll survive.
Not stealthy though, no railgun, it's just an A-10 with a Japanese body kit installed 0/10
I've started using them almost exclusively, they can be used just like a normal light but they also work really well as a headlamp. Most have a magnetic base which combined with the side output makes them ideal for working on stuff that requires both hands. Normal magnetic lights just mean you have a flashlight pointed at your face.
I have an H300 and it's absolutely amazing if you just ignore the weird charging thing.
They're the only hobbyist manufacturer with any scale. If you look at the Dedrone stats it's just entirely the DJI show followed by AUTEL by a mile and then DIY stuff. The DIY drones can be built from anything and can be trivially designed to avoid surveillance so you're not gonna get anywhere with them anyway.