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Just cut the cable for the microphone?

There’s another problem with this because a camera with a mic cable cut would look from the outside exactly like a camera with mic cable intact, and maintenance is a thing, so eventually it’s bound to be replaced by a camera with a working mic either by mistake or “by mistake” on purpose. There’s a trust issue here since people who would be affected by the presence of a mic won’t be able to easily visually verify that it’s disabled.

Drill through it!

It's often on the board as a MEMS microphone.

But yes I've done this with all my ring cameras, they were still the old type. One of them was a bitch to open up though (the indoor one IIRC)


The new MacBook Neo's keyboard is not riveted and instead held with screws. As far as I could tell it is still just as thin and light as other MacBooks.

I also have a standing desk, and my desktop computer is still on the floor. That way I can just route all the cables to the back and then under the desk to my PC. Looks very clean as well.

Yep, with wireless keyboards and mice you really only need your monitor cables on the desk in this setup.

Yep, same.

What are we doing in Germany?

The options I have seen so far were a) using our digital IDs, which is very handy or b) having a bank verify my identity in person with my ID, which is also pretty good.


These options are not available to recent immigrants, people with foreign documents and people without a registered address. I spent a lot of time working around those limitations.

What is the difference between the second option and how they do it in France? I haven't tried it before, but shouldn't that work with foreign documents or without a registered address as well? Or is it more like that it should work in theory, but in practice those documents just aren't accepted?

Especially due to Apple having a lot less SKUs (compared to Lenovo) and having a lot more control over important parts such as CPUs.

As far as I'm concerned this doesn't mean anything legally unless I missed something. Aren't you already responsible for what you do or build anyways?

Or is this somehow meant to mean something else but worded so badly it can't be understood.


I have one for settings timers when cooking and playing music.

Maybe I'm just not creative enough, but I don't see anything else I would want it to do.


This competition was my first experience with programming, but from what I can see RoboCup Junior is still thriving - just with different products controlling the robots now.

The author mentions using them as well, but I personally would have a really hard time trusting any service run by any individual and be it just in case something happens to them.

It's a team of 10+ people though.

I think the most interesting use case I have seen so far was for computers that control industrial equipment where you want identical installs on potentially dozens of machines.

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