You needed: kernel driver, closed source userspace driver, GStreamer plugin, v4l2 loopback driver, v4l2 relay daemon copying frames from the GStreamer source into v4l2 loopback. Technically I could have made it work, I just decided not to.
Earlier this year I was given one of those XPS machines with Ubuntu and decided to install Debian on it. The camera driver was so bad - I can't remember technical details but you can't simply get it to run on another kernel, it was a mess of hacks to get it to work. I decided I won't get a camera driver. "We ship a laptop with Ubuntu" does not necessarily mean working Linux drivers.
EDIT: To add insult to injury, the touch bar suddenly decided to stop responding to input. It's already bad enough to not have tactile feedback for Esc / Fn keys / Delete / Print Screen.
No, I commute in jeans. Makes it super hard to find high-waist jeans that are narrow at the bottom and also have a certain degree of elasticity, so when I find them I buy a lot.
Having a hobby that's considered embarrassing or childish
Having a psycho stalker
Buying a present from Santa
A reporter who doesn't want to reveal their sources
Buying a toilet and you don't want toilet recommendations for the rest of your life
Lending your computer to someone, and you don't want your recommended videos to change
Under an NDA
... Or maybe you're talking with someone who's in one of those categories.
We have to normalise privacy in order to keep these people safe. For instance, it's a stupid example but it works, if I always use private browser windows, my husband won't suspect anything when I'm looking for a gift for him.
That's only the tip of the iceberg and it's not even touching some bigger problems:
You can be profiled based on your likes, social media posts, purchase history, etc, and maybe used for election results manipulation, or who knows what else. That's not a conspiracy theory, it has happened, see for instance Cambridge Analytica.
Maybe the political situation will change in the future. Oops, now your data is suddenly in the hands of a malicious dictator.
If you keep a backdoor open to let the "good and trusted" actors in, there's no way to not let malicious actors in as well.
Two NextCloud instances, one is a RPi4 with a big external HDD which I use for backups, the other one contains everything else, including PhoneTrack. Happy to have a self-hosted privacy-friendly way to share my location with family.
Email using mailcow.
Jabber server using prosody. Using it with immediate family and two friends. Still super happy.
Web server including personal blogs. Currently looking to migrate away from Wordpress into something static without comments.
You needed: kernel driver, closed source userspace driver, GStreamer plugin, v4l2 loopback driver, v4l2 relay daemon copying frames from the GStreamer source into v4l2 loopback. Technically I could have made it work, I just decided not to.
https://launchpad.net/~oem-solutions-group/+archive/ubuntu/intel-ipu6 https://github.com/intel/ipu6-camera-bins