• Kerb
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    573 months ago

    why would you ring a doorbell in the middle of the woods?

    • @[email protected]
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      Ring doorbells have built in motion detection cameras, they do not necessarily need to be “rung”

      • Echo Dot
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        I just find it funnier that they have to ring the bell. Human nature to press the button.

        Also thinking about it I have a doorbell like that and it rings every time a bird flies past. It is supposed to not detect birds, leaves and people driving past on the road, it’s supposed to only detect humans but it 100% doesn’t work. I can totally see something like this malfunctioning and just going off because a leaf got blown past it.

    • @[email protected]
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      363 months ago

      I like to think if fairies had access to a doorbell and explosives, they’d absolutely rig something like this.

      “Don’t ring a doorbell in the forest” sounds like some fairytale cryptid shit

    • nukeM
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      343 months ago

      We’re very lucky that they’re so fucking stupid

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      “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”

      Albert Einstein

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      153 months ago

      Its a wireless camera door bell, called “ring”. No idea if this is real but i assume you could set something like this up to be either motion detection activated(like a mine) or remote activated by looking at the camera feed.

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        53 months ago

        If you need it remote activated you’d need wifi as well, which makes it kind of complicated to set up with lots of moving parts.

          • @Tja
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            53 months ago

            What if the enemy doesn’t come by in the 2 hours the battery would last streaming video this way?

            • Psaldorn
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              83 months ago

              It doesn’t stream video full time, it detects motion and then let’s you optionally turn on video. (Maybe that changes if you have zonal movement detection but it’s probably locally processed)

          • Echo Dot
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            43 months ago

            I can think of about 500 easier ways to do this. I can’t imagine them doing it the complicated way, when the easy way works just as well, costs less, and is less prone to malfunctioning.

          • @[email protected]
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            13 months ago

            Now you need to somehow power that. Also, how reliable is 3G around the front line, you think?

            • Psaldorn
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              63 months ago

              Russians deliberately don’t attack telecom infrastructure now, because they did initially before discovering it was actually necessary for their own military comms.

              Mobile routers can last 12 hours and handle a handful of connections, you can probably supplement them with a usb battery bank too.

              Or if there is grid power within WiFi range it’s not an issue. Or there may be more quiescent current models designed for IoT applications (like wind sensors in trees which may have poor signal coverage), I don’t know

    • @[email protected]
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      143 months ago

      You wouldn’t? I’d ring it without a second thought, especially if it said “do not touch”

      • Echo Dot
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        53 months ago

        Do not press this button if you press this button it will detonate the bomb.

        “Oh, I wonder if it really will. I’m just going to press it a little bit.”

    • @[email protected]
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      113 months ago

      One time I went to Egypt and there was just a random ass power outlet on a rock in the desert. To this day I have no idea why it was there or if it was connected to anything

  • Dreizehn
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    83 months ago

    If a drunk Muscovite is curious, good for him. Fuck Russia and Ukraine should use S-Mines too.

  • MedicsOfAnarchy
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    73 months ago

    I doubt motion sensors would be a good idea. Birds flying by, wind moving branches… waste of explosive.

  • @[email protected]
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    43 months ago

    While walking through the woods you come upon a narrow, waist-high pedestal. Atop it is a large red button, about 4 inches across. What do you do?