The lead lemmy devs are struggling with funding - https://join-lemmy.org/donate

Sync isn’t well updated / supported and I’d recommend moving to another client. I was a long time sync user so I found it hard, but I personally settled on Thunder https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hjiangsu.thunder&hl=en_CA

Was it left open + maybe in a humid area? Brittle usually means wet filament.

An app that allows manual control, and then increasing the shutter speed to avoid blur.

Phone cameras aren’t generally the best at action shots, they have too much delay. It’s easier to record slowmo and pick out frames, but then image quality suffers.

You could do something like nextcloud to solve a lot of issues, but I’d still hesitate to recommend on-prem hardware and managing hardware yourself. It really comes down to the business tolerance for outages though, maybe the computers being down for a day or two doesn’t matter.

Are you providing a support contract long term? Are you backed by multiple people in case you’re away and their business is down? I say this more figuratively than specifically you, this could also apply to their internal IT guy who wants to do this.

I’d strongly suggest deferring to a local business IT services company, unless you’re an active partner in the business. They should find a company they are comfortable with and trust, then use the products they recommend and are comfortable with.

Tourism makes up 11% of El Salvador’s GDP.

Sounds like that should change too.

Tldr: we like money. We think people will pay for it, so we’re charging.