*scrambles to pretend it's a surprise or that anyone's at all confused about why he was at Jan. 6 and is now working for the White House

It makes me so sad that I think you are overestimating how much the average American cares if the election is stolen. Put another way: Tons of people, millions and millions, think that Biden stole the election, and no one started a civil war about it. The actual action was limited to the fringes of the fringes, and it didn't work.

Also consider this: BLM was one of the biggest protest movements in history, with about 20 million people participating in some way. But, it was only 20 million. Compared to the kinds of uprisings they had in Eastern Europe that actually overthrew the corrupt dictatorships, it was small.

Also, by coincidence, 20 million is almost exactly how many people went to the Gulag (out of a much smaller population.) You might say, "Well there's no way they could steal the election and then send anyone who complained to one of these detention centers they're desperately building right now at tremendous scale. There would be an outcry. People would care enough to stop it." Well, maybe. On the other hand, they're Gulag-ing thousands of immigrants currently and have now moved on to a few dozen citizens, and who is stopping them?

As far as I know, it's basically "throwing anything at anyone in an unwanted / offensive manner" in pretty much every jurisdiction. It's normally not a big deal that it's so broad, because it's a misdemeanor, and the cops / prosecutor / jury will exercise a certain amount of common sense about whether or not it's a big deal that you threw a balled up business card at someone or something. But, as soon as you're throwing something at a cop, it becomes a very different situation...

Yeah. I'm just talking about his character on a personal level, not about the danger he represents on a factual level. Other people who have much stronger character set up solid systems which are terrifyingly effective, and now this brain damaged child is in charge of a lot of them. It's not a good situation.

Here's the pinout for the webcam component: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/Framework-Laptop-13/tree/main/Webcam

Unfortunately it isn't really clear whether the switch positions are in the pinout because it's the mainboard's job to implement shutting off the camera when it's off, or just as information with the webcam module responsible for shutting it off in hardware. I have no idea which it is, but it wouldn't be super-hard for someone capable with EE to take off the bezel and fool around with it and see which it is (or just pay $19 for the magic of buying two of them, if you didn't want to take apart your own laptop for it.)

They say they provide full schematics on demand to repair shops (https://knowledgebase.frame.work/availability-of-schematics-and-boardviews-BJMZ6EAu). I'm not sure why they don't want to just post them publicly, so in that sense you might be right, but they also don't seem like they are trying to keep them or the interface details of the webcam module fully top secret either.

They do seem like they publish enough information that someone could figure out the answer if they wanted to. (People in the forums have fooled around with them and seem to be convinced that they are actually hardware switches: https://community.frame.work/t/how-do-the-camera-and-microphone-switches-work/4271 IDK whether that's accurate, but that's what the forum people think.)

No idea why you're trying to lecture me from this position of authority about taking apart PCBs and whatnot. Anyway, that's how it works, hope this is helpful for you.

Not in exchange for peace, in exchange for a vague promise of peace in the future which won't be kept. I get why Trump can't see that, but it is weird for it to get reported on as if it was not a transparent scam perpetrated on one of the dumbest people in the world.

Also! Inflation and whether or not it was the president's fault, and all the Palestine protests and how Democrats (only Democrats) were facing a lot of heat for their support of Israel. Almost as if our media is corrupted by partisan influences that are trying to mislead and influence people, and it works shockingly well.

By the statute, he's 100% guilty. And there's no particular guarantee that he'll get a jury of people who are willing to say "Yeah but fuck Trump at the end of the day" (or even that he won't get whisked away to some kind of ICE tribunal that are going to make him the test case for "deporting" citizens or something).

I'm 100% behind the guy, and honestly I would be cheering for him to fight the case because fuck Trump also, but I'm just saying that it's way way different when it's you in the seat start facing down "sacrifice the rest of your life" consequences.

Framework laptops have a little physical switch to turn off the camera / mic when you don't want them.

The original SGI webcams, some of the first that ever existed, actually had a physical plastic cover that you could slide over them when you didn't want the camera on. "No, I don't trust your hardware any more than your software. I shouldn't need to. Stop looking at me when I don't want you to, and prove to me that you are not, or else I will be suspicious." Back in those days that was sort of a universal point of view among internet people, I think...

Seriously. The conviction

They've killed about a million Russians so far, and held the invasion a few hundred km from their border. I'd call that something they can do about it.

They have the luck ("luck") of the entire first world funding them to defend against Russia, instead of Gaza where it's 100% the opposite, so they're not in the horrifying situation the Palestinians are in. Which I'm sure frustrates Russia to no end.

Yeah, you broke the code.

Can't imagine why any Ukrainian person wouldn't be on board for that. "Peace!" That sounds great, why don't you like peace?

(Actually they pretty much did that in 2014 already. The details were a little different, but absolutely they were organizing ethnic Russians trying to violently seize control of the government in Ukrainian areas, and then they sent the Russian army to "protect" them when the Ukrainians started objecting and shooting back.)