An inversion table works pretty well for that.

That’s awesome! I hope she finds those sources helpful, I’ve been nabbing em from all around the threadiverse for a while now :)

It’s a wireless keyboard and mouse, handy for controlling a media center or couch PC.

No prob ^^

I happened to have it and a small enough screwdriver nearby, so figured why not (and I was honestly curious if there was a microphone a myself, that hole was a bit sus, especially after seeing the GN video about LG TVs spying with their mics).

Ah, good point.

Please do consider publishing it at more searchable blog/forum/resource, too!

I have no where else to post it to besides here, I’m afraid. But if anyone else wants to post those pictures elsewhere, feel free :)

Yes it is, it never registered with me that it was there until you pointed it out.

Well, you’re in luck, as I happen to own this exact model, which has the same hole.

Taking it apart is quite easy, just 6 screws and some plastic tabs hold it together.

Here’s the components on the underside of the board beneath the hole (these components face the rear backplate)

And if I pry the case apart a bit, I can’t see any components directly beneath the hole, it’s just bare PCB.

As far as I can tell, no microphone is present. The hole is likely a product of the injection molding process for the outer case.

One thing to note about this device though; while the ergonomics are great and its been reliable, I notice that my left hand wrapping around the case can sorta block the mouse pad signal to the dongle (about 6 feet away), so I need to hold it in a way that the transmitter isn’t blocked by my hand to move the mouse curser smoothly.

No worries noc, I meant it in a playful way, thought it’d be funny since I missed that one too :p

While we are at it… CEOs as well.

Quite right, thanks for pointing that out.

I’d personally strongly advocate for outright not allowing AI made apps to be posted, for these reasons:

1. Simply using an AI that’s run on a corporate data centers encourages the construction of yet more data centers, with all of the environmental/climate negatives they bring, as well as local harms they induce on the people living near them, such as increased electricity rates.

2. Using corporate AI directly helps the financial situations of those giant corporations (by boosting usage/user numbers, they are able to attract more investment capital), most of which are ran by right-wing CEOs who are more than willing to collaborate with and fund fascist governments to ensure that they are not regulated in search of both maximum profits. Some of these companies, such as Nvidia, Palantir and Oracle, genuinely appear to be seeking to use these tools for what would previously be considered crackpot conspiracy theory levels of public control and surveillance.

3. I’m wary of the potential effects of AI usage resulting in declining or stagnating critical thinking based on some preliminary studies (example 1, example 2).

4. I do not think LLMs can be “just a tool” as many claim.

5. 99% of LLMs (the ones virtually everyone use) are trained on copyrighted code that is incompatible with GPL licensed projects. LLMs have a 3 to 10% chance to unknowingly reproduce the copyrighted code perfectly, introducing legal plagiarism into an open-source project, which could easily open up the developers to being sued in the future if companies scanned open source repos for copyright violations.

6. Many courts are ruling that LLM generated code cannot be copyrighted at all, meaning that it also cannot be legally made GPL, losing the protections from corporate exploration the GPL normally grants. https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260825-01.html

Removing access to the sources giving them their opinions appears to be pretty effective at drastically reducing their focus on hating things and getting riled up. This was explored in The Brainwashing of my Dad documentary.

I was able to do this with my own mother, who only watched right-wing news from clips on YouTube. When she wasn’t at her computer at an appointment, I installed a browser add-on called Blocktube that let’s you selectively block YouTube channels or videos from popping by a list of keywords. I also then subscribed her account to left-wing news sources like pbs and more perfect union.

From that point onward, she was never recommended right-wing news or interviews, and within a few months her views on things noticeably changed, she no longer brought up all the fear-porn from fox, and even finally believed in climate change thanks to PBS Terra.

I was fortunate she didn’t watch TV, where blocking a whole station would probably be more noticeable. But for those who have the opportunity to limit parent access to right-wing poison, I can attest to its effectiveness.

A few decades ago people used to think it would be hard for the fascists to take over the US, that they were a minority that wouldn’t gain popularity or a foothold in the different branches of government.

Obviously, we were wrong. And the rise of the far-right in EU countries shows the same can still happen there.

Having close ties with each other is good, helping each other is awesome, but centralizing power will only make it easier for it to be corrupted by fascism as climate change restricts global resources and the fascists are ready with their tired old scapegoats.

No prob! :)

I have a pretty dim view of using LLMs, especially in FLOSS, for practical and ethical reasons.

1. Simply using an AI that’s run on a corporate data centers encourages the construction of yet more data centers, with all of the environmental/climate negatives they bring, as well as local harms they induce on the people living near them, such as increased electricity rates.

2. Using corporate AI directly helps the financial situations of those giant corporations (by boosting usage/user numbers, they are able to attract more investment capital), most of which are ran by right-wing CEO’s who are more than willing to collaborate with and fund fascist governments to ensure that they are not regulated in search of both maximum profits. Some of these companies, such as Nvidia, Palantir and Oracle, genuinely appear to be seeking to use these tools for what would previously be considered crackpot conspiracy theory levels of public control and surveillance.

3. I’m wary of the potential effects of AI usage resulting in declining or stagnating critical thinking based on some preliminary studies (example 1, example 2).

4. I do not think LLM’s can be “just a tool” as many claim.

5. 99% of LLM’s (the ones virtually everyone use) are trained on copyrighted code that is incompatible with GPL licensed projects. LLM’s have a 3 to 10% chance to unknowingly reproduce the copyrighted code perfectly, introducing legal plagiarism into an open-source project, which could easily open up the developers to being sued in the future if companies scanned open source repos for copyright violations.

6. Many courts are ruling that LLM generated code cannot be copyrighted at all, meaning that it also cannot be legally made GPL, losing the protections from corporate exploration the GPL normally grants. https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260825-01.html

Perhaps Freetube?

AntiX (based on Debian) is the only distro I know of that is developed by vocally anticapitalist leftist devs, even putting “proudly Anti-fascist” on their main page.

They also are one of the few distros to take an anti-LLM stance (though with Debian itself being pro-AI now, it remains to be seen how far they will go to avoid new LLM contributions made to the Debian base).