Seems like just about everyone has a video doorbell and/or other cameras monitoring their property. Took it for granted in my youth without even knowing it.
Bigger problem is mfs just spend the weekend braindead doomscrolling the internet and don’t even want to have parties.
Oh. Hi. That’s me, right now.
Good for them.
Staying safe indoors instead of dying prematurely from alcohol poisoning and stupidity.
Ah yes, having a party = poisoning yourself with alcohol to the point of dying. We end up killing at least 1 ever year at my birthday party but that’s the price I’m willing to pay for a good rager.
Dionysus famously demands sacrifice
Wow you sure seem fun to be around.
Lemmy.world is a website for ages 13 and up. Please use it under the supervision of your legal guardians.
I’ll try but my parents are pretty dead at this point.
Why not have weed at the party instead?
I guess cause when I was growing up nobody ever wanted to share and it was expensive. I wonder if that’s changed?
Do stupid stuff is part of growing up, don’t miss that
If you don’t want to drink, that’s totally fine and entirely your choice. It’s not for everyone and some people simply should not consume alcohol (eg, those with a history of substance abuse problems or anger issues).
But having fun at parties with alcohol is a pretty typical part of growing up. There’s a middle ground between “staying home alone” vs “dying prematurely”. You can drink enough to have fun without it being at risk of killing you. It’s not healthy to bing drink, to be clear, but personally, I found it worth it every now and then to have some good times with friends. Just be mindful of your limits, hangout with people you trust, and always have a sober ride home.
Here is the chronically online, antisocial teen with autism who’s afraid of parties:
lol I’m a nearly 40 year old married man with three kids and a successful career. But, god I wish!
Maybe, just maybe, the issue is the parents not letting go and not accessibility to cameras.
Before cameras everyone had a window granny who reported everything happening in the neighborhood. And even then, parents knew what was happening. The goal was that kids would fear that the parents would discover something is amiss and clean after themselves.
Back when I was a teen, my folks would go away for a month and a half every summer and leave us kids behind (we were teenagers and didn’t want to go) and obviously we would throw parties. One year I had cleaned the house really well and thought there was no way they would know. My dad came home and that’s how I learned he keeps two cold beers in the fridge for when he gets home. And they were gone.
He wasn’t mad we threw parties, he wasn’t mad we were underage drinking, but he was mad his two cold getting-home beers had been drank and not replaced. And that’s how I found out my parents are humans who knew we were having parties and they didn’t care as long as we didn’t die or mess with their shit.
The point isn’t that they don’t have fun. Its that they clean up so good we don’t have to clean shit when we get home.
That’s how it worked before the cameras.
lol, never thought of it that way
My parents knew I had had a house party because it was too clean, they said I wouldn’t have cleaned if I wasnt trying to hide something. They were right tbh
They spoil it for the rest of us. You don’t say that shit. You make a sly remark on how exceptionally clean everything is and carry on with your day. Smh
Maybe they knew from something else and just told that to avoid me knowing what it really was 🤔
That and with the parents working from home, how often are they out of the house long enough to throw a party or even raid the alcohol cabinet?
turn off the wifi. boom no more ring and nest cams. problem solved.
Teenagers don’t listen to this parent in disguise. Most modern cameras and record everything locally and/or viacloud. You’d physically have to go to each camera and unplug if they aren’t already battery operated AND kill the wifi.
If just just turn off the wifi they’ll record them just upload everything when they get internet again lol.
Good luck trying to explain that away to your parents though lol.
Unless you running an NVR, do not believe many cloud based cameras will record locally. Fewer would have batteries. I think some doorbell cameras may send still photos with motion that may get send on reconnection. The video is likely lost.
I install commercial cameras and nearly all have capability for SD cards and local storage but never had a need to utilize that.
The cheap Wyze cameras I’ve seen everyone buy lately store locally and have cloud options. They’re both usable at the same time too.
They’re aren’t in any government approved lists but most poors don’t give a shit if the CPC is watching them fuck in the living room occasionally when the kids are sleeping lol.
https://reviewed.usatoday.com/smarthome/content/wyze-cam-v3-review
It is fairly cheap option to have some local storage although it won’t have a great deal of time. Day or two. But for cloud storage that is perfect as it can handle then brief internet outages without losing any video. Just might be delayed.
I thought about installing it in our commercial cameras by default. Had a client get their NVR stolen and having local camera storage would have given them two days of recorded video. Was certain it was and inside job or past worker so it could have been effective.
My dad did have cameras all over the house while I was in high school. But there weren’t any in my room so we could hang out in there. There also weren’t any in the bathroom so we could stash the alcohol in there and just pour it into cups.
Both of these required a parent not that dedicated to actually stopping his kids from partying though. But a parent sufficiently dedicated was always going to be able to find out somehow.
Did you have to, like, sneak people in through a window or something? Surely there were cameras at the normal entrances. Or were the number of guests not an issue, just the alcohol?
The latter for sure. And to be fair, my experience wasn’t identical to what the post was asking. It wasn’t so much a house party as it was having ~10 friends over. And my dad was often home, just already asleep. I definitely wouldn’t have tried to have a legitimate house party with the cameras around.
Just unplug the router and no internet access. ;)
Good luck in my house, server is in a locked room and only way they can kill my cameras is by unplugging for 6 hours so the ups is depleted. Checkmate kids.
But do you have kids?
Yes
Color me surprised
They’re also in a locked room. The parents are looking for them.
What UPS do you have that lasts 6 hours? Legitimately asking.
The madlad probably has like 30 of them daisy chained.
It’s 2 100 ah sealed batteries I wired up to my ups
That doesn’t solve anything. Your neighbors have security cameras too. They can share then with your parents. Your parents can watch video from other cameras if the neighborhood is on the same brand/network.
This varies with location. Our nearest neighbors are just shy on a mile away. Their cameras aren’t much good.
The kids actually figured out how to log in and disable the cameras or mute notifications and then delete memory 🥴
Let the kids have fun, what’s wrong with these parents?
Dog you’re not even getting started on how hard it is to be social as a kid/teen nowadays. Parents are spending so much more time with and around their kids too, because it’s necessary when kids can’t walk anywhere and have no skate parks or malls to go to anyway.
A neighbor would just tell on you. I got busted by random neighborhood parents skipping school or sneaking out.
You think this isn’t the main use case?
Parents but this shit and trick tend into thinking it’s about security from the outside. Adults know that was just a fringe possibility, it’s all about curbing house parties.
Now shut up before they see this.
Parents but this shit and trick tend into thinking
lolwut
Fuck autocorrect fucked me hard. I have no idea what I was trying to say.
yeah I think your phone had a stroke there lol
Pretty sure every word in that was wrong 😅
I would actually be kind of proud of my kids if they threw a successful party with their friends when I was out of town. It seems like kids barely party anymore. As long as they clean up afterwards and don’t break a bunch of stuff, I’d pretend not to notice.
Have you considered letting them party and being a cool responsible adult that sticks around to make sure everyone is safe. I had some friends growing up with parents like this. Their theory was the kids are going to party anyway so if you give them a safe space its less likely to go poorly. Anyone who got a little too sick or emotional ended up with an experienced adult to help them recover.
