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No sympathy from me. I have a GoPro Hero11 Black and it's easily the worst camera product I've ever used.

Damn thing overheats constantly. 4K60 never works for more than 15-or-so minutes even with an AC vent aimed directly at it. 1080p60 is its limit for any long-duration recording, and even then it still overheats from time to time if I'm in a particularly hot environment. Made me realize why so much of their marketing shows it being used underwater and skydiving lol

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> overheats

This is the biggest thing that I've constantly heard about GoPros... I get that they're small and portable, but what good are they if you can almost never use them?

They even made them a little bigger, and they still overheated...

All because they had to have the top line specs for video, pushing the little SoC to the limit while recording. The heat makes battery life worse, too.

Ironically, cold also trashes their battery life.

I hate physics and chemistry.

As a diver, if you jump into moderately warm water (the Great Barrier Reef for instance), that won't save you either. Mine overheats and dies after 15-20 minutes. It took diving near Seattle to keep it going continuously.