Sorry if I was wrong about the prevalence of such protections. My perception may be biased because the notebooks used by our company are all equipped with a switch or shutter of some sort. (HP brand, IIRC) Regarding your second point, however: surely a shutter physically obscuring the camera lens is just as effective as disconnecting the camera when it comes to protecting the user’s privacy?
They often come equipped with a privacy slider to cover the lens. Or you can just put a sticker on them.
How has nobody mentioned Girls Just Wanna Have Fun yet? That bubbly energy is a great pick-me-up whenever you need it most.
I learned a few years ago that the Duke is, in fact, not frozen waiting to be resuscitated. Of course I only learned this after arguing with my prof in film class about it. Classic urban legend. Now I’m worried about any other hoaxes I might have absorbed in the pre-Internet years. At least I know that the Glomar Explorer was not looking for manganese nodules.
I was actually just thinking they should do this as an interim solution and then make optimized LODs to replace the automatic ones with. In fact, perhaps that would have been the thing to do instead of making advance apologies. Slightly suboptimal image quality at release would probably have been more tolerable than heinously bad performance.
The documentaries by Frederick Wiseman are very good if somewhat old now. But he had this extremely “neutral” style where it always seemed as though he was just showing things as they were, without even commenting on them. I liked the one about the hospital best, but Blind was also quite good. Otherwise, if you can stomach serious subjects, Claude Lanzmann’s hours-long Shoah is one of the most poignant and simultaneously “dry” documentaries I have ever seen. Or so I remember; it’s been a while.
Doesn’t exist in German? What about “Frohes Schaffen”?