Bananas Galore!

I see the camera has PoE, will you use that and connect to the camera over a local network? If so you could just record the stream with ffmpeg

Wow it generates postal barcodes as well, that’s cool

How about a utility for generating and/or handling QR codes?

EDIT: as there are tools to generate QR codes, how about a tool to handle them? Scan and present the option to open any associated links/display data

Brother QL-550 here. I think it might be smaller than you need but judging by this and the other comments the Brother QL series looks good. Can’t remember what setup it needed (I don’t think there was much) but if the information is helpful to you I can take a look

The brain cells presumably have a life span… if this technology ever gets used in consumer devices, I’d like to know how people will try and squeeze extra life out of a failing component.
Take it out and warm it in their hands like an alkaline battery?
Give it a shake?
Sing to it?
Some kind of stimulant drug?

They missed out the firmware in the WiFi adapter

This makes you sound like a Jehova’s witness.

Idk if that’s a valid comparison… being a Jehovah’s witness doesn’t save you a penny in software licensing costs

My takeaway from point 1 is to rephrase my advice as a complaint:

“Man, it sucks you have that problem with Windows. I’ve been struggling with a computer problem of my own actually. I’ve been getting really down down thinking about all the Windows users out there who just have no clue about how the power of Linux could change their lives for the better”

Commenting because no-one mentioned the Watchy

unsupported hardware, firmware bugs

Works as long as you didn’t put something silly in your nvim config like

vim.keymap.set("ca", "q!", "echo 'not so fast!'")

I imagined something like this (youtube video L7iROzIKm1M ) but idk if it’s still a thing

It’s moot for me anyway because there’s no chance of appliance makers opening up their hardware

EDIT: can’t post a link to YT for some reason

As someone who’s into home automation:

1. Some of the features are cool, like seeing what’s in your fridge remotely. That’d be nice to have while I’m out shopping
2. I currently have an old NUC hooked up to a little interface and some speakers in my kitchen. It’s a bit janky, and it would be nice to run that through some hardware that’s actually intended for kitchen use

Admittedly I’m not sure I could justify the price for “would be nice” features like that

I’d love a fridge with network connectivity and ‘smart’ features, but I’d need control over the firmware it runs

takes up a lot of floor space

In an office they could be stacked like bunk beds

I’m not sure where showerthoughts energy ends and trolling begins, but I feel like stupider things have been successfully marketed

But they’re rare compared to standing desks, so I guess no-one’s nailed the marketing yet!

I don’t use a standing desk.
Personally I’m waiting for someone to come up with the laying desk. I want to be fully reclining, with a couple of monitors suspended above my head, and the two halves of my split keyboard on little tables under my hands

Students who think they are chatting privately among friends often do not realize they are under constant surveillance

This is the problem

Burn a book! Save a tree!