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If you connect a plug to the audio jack, sure, the laptop probably defaults to using that jack for input and output. But you can still choose to use the built-i
by rebuilder 7y ago
If you connect a plug to the audio jack, sure, the laptop probably defaults to using that jack for input and output. But you can still choose to use the built-in mic, right? So it's not physically disconnecting anything, just triggering a software disconnect.
- masklinn 7y agoAFAIK you're correct. Though it's possible most spying software just uses the default mic and doesn't have the capabilities to switch the input device?
- to11mtm 7y agoNot a Mac user, and the last time I played with sound stuff in nix was almost 15 years ago... But I feel like switching input (or even collecting multiple sound inputs) on a nix OS is not much more convoluted than dealing with the sound stack in general. But that's probably also related to how the driver itself interfaces with the audio device...