Nice drawing! :D I'm getting Foamy vibes from the eye emoting.

Something your critique of the kitchen brought to mind. Yeah it's a Reddit link, but it goes to something that kinda expanded my view on the monotone fad that has dominated the interior design landscape: https://www.reddit.com/r/Anticonsumption/comments/10njiwd/colour_theory_and_corporations/

Not go as HAM on commercial server hardware. iLO is really nice for management though...

I'm using ZoneMinder on my end with more rudimentary motion detection, hence CPU detection. (My current hardware is pre-IOMMU on the mobo, so no pci passthrough for me...)

That said, if you have hardware that can handle X (via CPU, GPU, TPU, etc), then you gotta decide how you want to spend that. Whether resources are spent more in analysis fps or evaluating higher detail frames is up to what you need.

Or you could do what Triumph did and just YOLO into the situation and say it has character because of the imbalance: https://www.cycleworld.com/story/bikes/triumphs-new-t-plane-firing-order-explained/

Would you say that 15FPS is a good framerate for surveilance? Or could one get away with even less to lessen the resource requirements?

If doing CPU-based motion analysis, you could use a lower quality stream (if available from the cameras to avoid transcoding load) for motion detection, then use that to trigger recording on a higher quality stream.

That's fair. I guess it depends on how far you want to go with a sawzall. What I had in mind with my other comment was this guy's van, which apparently had a 1JZ shoved into it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odwakzXeECQ&ab_channel=PacoIbarra%2FTofuDriftVan

Part of me wants to take one of those and 1UZ swap it. Would be ridiculous and absolute fun.