the_dunk_tank

From their comments:

I cant charge at home so if I use sentry I have to charge every two days instead of every three days. It was just a combination of laziness and complacency, I work 60-70 hours a week so not spending 40 minutes charging was appealing but you're right, its better to be prepared, especially with such a big investment.

Investment?

This is my first new vehicle, I usually buy 20+ y/o cars that only last me 4-5 years. This is the first time it's going to be me to put that first 100-200k miles on it, so I do consider it to be an investment. Maybe not as good as the S&P, but it gets me to work on time.

Right, but an investment is an asset you acquire with the intention of making money.. is the value of the truck going up?

In your opinion, to me, the money I'm saving on fuel, maintenance, repairs, and the rule of cool, I'm sitting pretty flat.

Unfortunately, there will always be haters, trolls, or nay-sayers or whatever we wanna call them. Douchebags, dumpster monkeys, or negative nellies.

The dangerous ones act out, and even follow-thru with their distorted reality or sick fantasies.

The human population is no different, we all sit on the spectrum and bell curve.

Live the life you want, Love the ones you're with.

Namaste

PS: by the way, how much battery life does sentry mode drain? Might be worthwhile to enable it in 'hostile environments?'

PSS: I'd consider keeping a cyber-baseball bat in the truck or frunk for those exceptional moments of self-defense.

It drains about 7% a day.

It shouldn't need near that

I agree, I feel like sentry mode is trying to mine crypto or something. Why is it trail cameras can run off batteries for days but sentry mode straight up uses kwh's a day to use basically the same technology recording to a usb ssd drive?

It’s because the cameras are connected to a computer with high end GPUs. This is not a cheap trail cam, it’s a dedicated computer system with advanced image processing abilities and mobile network connectivity.

[From what I've seen recently, the real-time monitoring is limited to one hour per day because it's uploading an obscene amount of data. Like 60gb I think?]