• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      If you have a house, you can detect bad isolation and gaps.
      It can also detect hotspots in electronics, which can be immensely helpful if you repair or make your own designs.
      Those are the most helpful uses I’ve found myself, but admittedly I haven’t really used my FLIR for about a year now, so not something I use often.

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      5 months ago

      Me! I need that. I use thermal imaging to fix things from plumbing, cars, to circuit boards. I use it to see if my dog is still at the end of the garden at night and to find draughts in the home. Thermal imaging is useful AF.

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        5 months ago

        I too think it’s useful. Also the “who needs it” isn’t really an argument. If you can fit it in and people are willing to pay for it… Why not? I mean who needs 5 regular cameras in their phone? One with a marcro lens, one fisheye and one tele plus a regular one plus one on the front… I mean in a normal phone as of todaz the additional flir camera isn’t really changing much.