I won’t be able to take this seriously until it proves it can successfully make a phone call over VoLTE.

I think it’s important to understand that if the whole Internet just shut off in an instant, life as we know it would cease to exist. I’m not talking about a cultural change. I mean millions of people starving and freezing to death because literally everything you take for granted today is ordered, scheduled, and delivered using the Internet. That means no food deliveries, no fuel deliveries, no imports or exports, no trains, trucks, or planes moving, no payments or money transfers. Nothing. Oh, and all the emergency services that you’re going to need will be unable to respond because no phones and no communication from dispatch centers. We don’t know how to do business without the Internet anymore, so if it goes away, there goes your way of life. Building that back to the “old way” will take way longer than you or your neighbors are likely survive competing for essentially nonexistent resources.

But for those who manage to survive, I would say party like it’s 1899!

I see your point

The Air Force has a program to support just this kind of innovation. If they allowed a media outlet to come in and do a story you can bet this had been approved all the way up the chain. This dude probably just earned some official reward bucks, too

Oof! Guess I should have looked at that.

Not sure if this meets your needs but you might check out DoorBird. They claim to work with several NAS solutions and have an API, as well as the usual phone- and tablet-notification and communication through their own service.

I think you pretty much understand the issue here. The C64 has composite video output through a DIN-to-RCA adapter and analog television output through an RF converter. There is no option for digital outputs to modern monitors since they did not exist when the C64 was manufactured and they use a completely different set of signals.

Your options are pretty much to:

1. Find an analog monitor or TV with RCA inputs and buy or build an adapter cable,
2. Find an analog color TV and use the RF adapter (which will give you far worse display quality), or
3. Try the converter box, which I hear is a hit-or-miss option.

This is the fun of going retro, no?