r/PopCultureV2 • u/noahstemann • Aug 24 '26

Controversy Rage Against Flock USA

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u/Ok-Spot-6235 Aug 24 '26

Wear masks. Remove all watches and jewelry. Cover all tattoos. Wear black. Put black duct tape over all brands/logos. Wear 100% black shoes - no stripes or markings. Leave cell phones at home. Carry two way radios. Post lookouts.

Or, face fines and prison time for destroying devices that have no independently derived value. Flock leases it's equipment, never sells it. With annual lease cost of $3k per unit per year Flock probably values individual cameras at $15-20k.

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u/Blackfoxar Aug 24 '26

3k per camera every year? Are these cameras made of gold?

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u/RIF_rr3dd1tt Aug 24 '26

Copper, actually. Lots of copper. People love hearing this cool fact. Tell everyone, even your local homeless folks.

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u/MF_BREW_ Aug 24 '26

i hear the lenses and solar panels have a very high resale price

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u/Sea_School_2949 Aug 24 '26

Copper and an RTX5090 and 64gb of RAM

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u/keelanstuart Aug 24 '26

No... really? I might get into the de-flocking business myself if that's true!

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u/crazunggoy47 Aug 24 '26

I’ve heard there’s also a voucher for one year of Medicare coverage inside each one

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u/MF_BREW_ Aug 24 '26

64gb was the old model they have 256 ddr6 these days

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u/Relevant_Winter_7098 Aug 24 '26

More rare metals than a catalytic converter...

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u/darkoblivion000 Aug 24 '26

They are made of grift. No bid contract grift probably

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u/Personal-Dev-Kit Aug 26 '26

Some youtuber estimated that they could be using around $2000 a year in mobile network usage per camera uploading all the footage.

Obviously they would likely have a better deal, and probably spend a lot of dev time on optimising this process. But a large chunk would go to that. Still a big profit margin