Then go for a CCTV system with local storage for the whole apartment complex instead of a cloud based personal surveillance system.

Then you don’t need 5 cloud services and people can go back to knocking.

When I break into peoples houses, I tend to take the NVR with me.

Then hide the NVR in a locked utility room of the apartment complex.

People who break into houses are going for a few obvious high-dollar items. They're not searching for a server closet they don't know exists. They're looking for laptops, pharmaceuticals, jewelry. High dollar, portable items. not a strange-looking device hidden in a closet. And obviously you can put it in a rack that requires a key to open. They won't bother.

AI has driven so many highly paid software professionals into the Your Friends and Neighbors lifestyle

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NVR?

Network Video Recorder, a name for devices where IP cameras stream their video to to be stored on, usually, a hard disk drive.

Same thing as DVR for analog surveillance cameras, just with eth (usually PoE) ports.