TZubiri 11 hours ago

A minimum light duration seems pretty trivial to physically engineer.

For one the energy to take a picture is probably enough to power a light for a noticeable amount of time.

And if it isn't, a capacitor that absorbs energy and only allows energy through once it's full would allow the light to remain on for a couple of seconds after power subsides.

1
perching_aix 10 hours ago

Wasn't arguing that it's difficult, just that it's needed (and that I'm not expecting it to be done in practice. Because the indicator LED on my laptop doesn't do it either, despite being enterprise grade).

homebrewer 10 hours ago

JIRA is "enterprise grade", I wouldn't place too much faith into that term.

perching_aix 10 hours ago

Trust me, I was using it semi-sarcastically too. This thing is slower than my old Pentium 4 would be, yet has a fast enough 30% to 3% battery discharge rate that it would make the speed of light itself blush.

xxs 5 hours ago

The main culprit is that anyone estimating battery life in percentages. It's about voltage and current draw. The battery voltage can be read directly.

About being slow, I suppose it does run windows and its infamous 'defender'

perching_aix 29 minutes ago

No, I think it's fairly easy to see that a third of the charge suddenly disappearing is a fairly uncommon behavior.

Same for your Windows idea...

jmb99 3 hours ago

> The main culprit is that anyone estimating battery life in percentages.

I thought this was a solved problem, like, decades ago? At least I remember even the first gen MacBooks having accurate battery percentages, and it’s a more vague memory but my PowerBook G4 did too I think.

cthalupa 7 hours ago

My 2023 MBP webcam light stays on for nearly 3 seconds after the webcam itself turns off.

dhosek 5 hours ago

Which is part of the design (see comments from the security architect elsewhere in the discussion).