| ▲ | permo-w 17 hours ago |
| my ideapad has a native physical webcam cover. no idea why this isn't universal standard |
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| ▲ | ragnese 17 hours ago | parent [-] |
| Eh. If it's not a physical power-disconnect switch, one could imagine it still being able to record audio, which still sucks. |
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| ▲ | lxgr 17 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The microphone is usually not part of the camera assembly in modern laptops. And there is usually more than one. For example, recent Macbooks have three, as far as I know. | | |
| ▲ | ragnese 16 hours ago | parent [-] | | Oh, bummer. I definitely had assumed that they were a single "device". |
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| ▲ | delecti 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | That's how it works on my work-provided HP laptop. The physical switch is only an opaque block on the camera. |
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