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would you recognize one if it were on the motherboard? it's not like microphones are big.
no, but i've never heard of a motherboard having an internal mic. Is that a thing now?
Well, laptops. But we never heard of prism before now, which doesn't make it not a thing.
I'm completely building this into a paranoid delusion, but then this whole thread is a demonstration that we lack / are denied the knowledge to dispel paranoid delusions, and sometimes they're right.