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Re:Dell Adding Hardware Privacy Driver for Linux by duskwuff on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @02:53PM (#24992445)
> If you don't have something like this, you'll get a lot of support calls which boil down to "you accidentally pressed the kill switch, press it again to re-enable".

Yep. This was an extremely common issue in the mid-2000s, when laptops started integrating wireless hardware with hard power switches, often on the side of the laptop where they could easily be toggled by accident.

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Re:Dell Adding Hardware Privacy Driver for Linux by varispeed on Thursday November 05, 2020 @04:18AM (#24996754)
But was it a "fault" of the switch itself or lack of meaningful feedback that the switch was engaged? It seems like they have not implemented it properly and then say it wasn't a good idea, without really giving it a chance.
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