I find myself perplexed by many conventions, maybe I'm a lout. A tidy slice of tape unconventionally covers my phone's frontal camera, which to me is a function

I find myself perplexed by many conventions, maybe I'm a lout. A tidy slice of tape unconventionally covers my phone's frontal camera, which to me is a functional and valued liberty, while the option lasts. I uneagerly anticipated the paradigm of soft switches, unserviceable batteries and blackbox gadgetry and have partially succumbed, slightly ashamed. Similarly I've feared the eventual ever vigilant indelible Eye squirming onto my required work surface. Will this be yet another lockstep along the one-way whizbang march of the techno enamored... or will future devices continue to serve and forgive their users of modifications and personal choices? Abridged keyboards, zombie MACs, unremovable apps, fastidious needy cameras, walled shrubberies, presidential alert suppositories, registered devices, opaque source, mutant laptops, ubiquitous Ring, very clever speakers (microphones)... and I hope I'm just a cantankerous luddite who doesn't appreciate the finer attributes of an autonomous device designed by insatiable gormandizers of data and sweathearts of authoritah. I use fingerprint auth, as a convenience, not for security. It seems among the options best left alone (you know, useful), but I suspect this will become a precedent for future models in general. Not against it as an option though.