Raspberry pi and motioneyeOS. Getting to a state where you have a live view of the camera shouldn't take more than an hour.
If you're tech-savvy, or willing to learn, A nextcloud instance would be my goto
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If this is what's scaring you about the death of liberty, then boy do I have a dumptruck full of passed acts and legislation that dwarfs this in comparison. Liberty died a long time ago.
First OS, WinXP.
Later when win7 was discontinued, I kept windows 10 on my desktop and Ubuntu on my laptop. It wasnt until Valve started working on proton and most of the games I play became playable on Linux that I ditched windows entirely.
I distrohopped around for a while, but always found myself landing back on Ubuntu, so it's what I've stuck with to this day, although if anyone else asks me what distro they should get, I will usually recommend mint.
Oh, but they did.
It just doesn't resemble the bourgeois 'democracy' we have in the west, but rather something else entirely that better fits the 'for the people, by the people, of the people" definition of democracy.
I'm willing to bet that some techbro either already has, or will in the near future propose an Ai toilet that will do something exactly this.
Well deserved.
That'll work too, along with any USB webcam