Giver of skulls

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Cake day: June 6th, 1923
  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nltoTechnology@lemmy.ml•Laptop with good webcam
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    2 months ago

    That must be a chunky laptop lid! It’s not just thickness, it’s also parts availability. Most laptops are super thin so the market for USB webcam daughterboards is optimised for shitty, thin laptop cameras.

    There’s also post-processing: a webcam of the same shitty image sensor size can look a lot better if the raw data is processed better. That’s why many Qualcomm laptops look to have better webcams even though the camera quality is just as bad, they just use the skills they’ve gathered in the mobile space to process the image into a more pleasing image.

  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nltoTechnology@lemmy.ml•Laptop with good webcam
    51·
    2 months ago

    Laptop cameras are terrible because they need to be super thin. Why? Because people like laptop lids that are super thin.

    Some manufacturers sort of fixed that by placing the camera somewhere else. On the one hand, the camera is a bit better, on the other, placing the camera by the keyboard gives you permanent chin face.

    Qualcomm laptops seem to have better processors for their terrible webcams at least, but they’re still webcams.

    If you need a good webcam, you may need to buy an external one. You need to check reviews, but many USB webcams are excellent. Still won’t solve the problem of your video being compressed to shit by video conferencing software, but it’s a start!