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As I said below, and without knowing if this is applicable to all models, mic and camera can be physically disconnected from the mainboard.

You can open the macbook and unplug the camera and mic connectors from the mainboard.

You're not alone, I feel you. The pendulum will swing back. Let's hope it does so quickly.

It drives me up the walls when some kind of list or collection touch UI doesn't offer any kind of batching, and most don't. Some kind of data-selection mode where I can drag across…

Thank you. We need to stop thinking of growth as a reasonable metric for wellbeing or relevance of products. When a new product is introduced, certainly, looking how the market rea…

And there's the problem.

What do you do with the waste? Blow it into the sun?

The solution to a problem is never to ignore it, lock it away, out of sight where it will just fester. The people who produce bullshit (maybe for a living, maybe as a hobby) don't …

What civilization are you talking about? The US, western Europe, capitalism, formally educated people? Who is 'they'? There's enough people who just want to watch the world burn, a…

You should check out what happened less than a century ago. Among other things, it started this whole digital conundrum. It's naive to think that concentrating so much power over s…

Now here's a reason why I disable js.

The problem is that the same crops are grown globally, so once a disease grabs hold, it can spread very quickly, eradicating yields globally.

I recently read Biodiversos by Stefano Mancuso and Carlo Petrini, the founder of the slow food movement. It's basically a discussion between the two where they lay out the big prob…

Fascinating how the analysis gets wrong what becomes possible or doesn't (online shopping,...), but hits the nail on the head concerning the psychological and social aspects. > The…

How so?

Found here: https://aeon.co/essays/the-quantum-view-of-reality-might-not... Zurek and his colleague Jess Riedel have been able to calculate how fast and extensive this proliferatio…

House of Cards made me realize something very self-evident: the baddies in "realistic" entertainment media do not reflect the baddies in real life (ditto for the good guys, for tha…

True, but I think this problem can only be solved sustainably through education. At some point, we may just have to accept that one has to deal with some number of idiots a day and…

Pretty thought provoking. It ties into my view that a free internet is a major democratizing force (like the next stepping stone after printing): anyone may speak up, anyone may di…

I guess we're going to find out soon enough what Apple thinks of that demographic considering their WWDC announcements.

Helping the power user is the whole point imo: let those who know what they're doing see and run the code themselves. As such, it doesn't matter whether Apple is in some business o…

I believe ecology has to be turned into a strong economic factor if we want anything to happen in its favor. Assuming political cooperation, the easiest way I see is to just slap a…

Does that work only on US cars or internationally?

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