• Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    The best thing to use is “Magic Tape” to cover your camera. It adds a frosted window effect while not disturbing your screen’s brightness adjustment feature.

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      5 months ago

      If your computer uses the camera for ambient light sensing instead of a separate sensor, they definitely fucked up building it.

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            5 months ago

            There’s usually 3 or 4 holes.

            Camera lens, light sensor and microphone.

            I did helpdesk during the pandemic and the number of tickets for “poor microphone quality” was insane. Most people used tape or bandaids to cover the camera… And microphone

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            Yes. Usually you have a brightness and sometimes also a proximity sensor. Proximity is usually used for phones so they can deactivate the screen if you hold the phone like an actual phone against your ear.

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        5 months ago

        I have not had one like that in a while but some cheap models did. Looking at you Toshiba Satellite.