Do it and you’d see my camera cover
The real goal is to then charge the user $2.99 to block their camera from being turned on.
Make it an auction
“fuck, I don’t have enough money for park avenue”
Sorry, your camera is now on, better to put your pants on
All you would see is my camera cover, lol
I think Dell once patented a mechanical cover system for their laptops.
All the laptops I have owned over the last 10 years have a mechanical shutter to cover the camera. None have been Dell.
You willingly own a laptop that can open its own shutter?
I believe they, and pretty much everyone else here, thought you were talking about the mechanical shutter that you have to manually slide over the lens.
That’s not what mechanical means, but I can understand the confusion.
Those are manual shutters. If it’s mechanical, unless you are using a very archaic definition or speaking in a different context it is capable of self movement in some form.
Not that I’d be particularly surprised to find out product marketing on the question is all over the place.
Does your mechanical pencil advance its own lead? Does your mechanical keyboard type on itself?
Yes, in this sense.
Clicking the mechanism converts the manual input to a mechanical or electrical output.
If you pushed the lead down entirely by hand it wouldn’t be a mechanical pencil, which is exactly why you pushing or flipping a plastic cover into place entirely with your own muscle power makes it a manual shutter.
When you type on a mechanical keyboard, what, precisely, do you think is happening? Are you literally outputting a letter by pressing your finger down? For that matter, what do you think a mechanical keyboard does?
Fucking Google it.
I do love having to explain basic terminology to a relatively well educated yet stupendously deaf audience.
Really restores my faith in humanity.
We’re not fucking cooked, and the mental infantilization of the population is not complete.
I’d honeytrap this with a software camera that just plays filth and shock sites on a loop :)
The goal with software like windows is to eventualy take away all control. If you can run unaproved software, you can’t even join the teams call. Then you will see stuff like this.
I own a small USB stick that acts as a camera. But in reality it’s just a HDMI input on the other end. Now beat that with software
Just wait until webcams start cryptographically signing image frames to ensure their authenticity.
Point webcam at a screen, or maybe a white wall with a projector pointing at it
Think Canon tried that years ago with some SLRs - expecting that tech will be the only thing that proves anything someday. Wonder if it’s panning out.
Wonder if it’s panning out.
Really depends on the lens.
