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        All the laptops I have owned over the last 10 years have a mechanical shutter to cover the camera. None have been Dell.

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            I believe they, and pretty much everyone else here, thought you were talking about the mechanical shutter that you have to manually slide over the lens.

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              That’s not what mechanical means, but I can understand the confusion.

              Those are manual shutters. If it’s mechanical, unless you are using a very archaic definition or speaking in a different context it is capable of self movement in some form.

              Not that I’d be particularly surprised to find out product marketing on the question is all over the place.

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                I’m a mechanical engineer, but what do I know. Just studied that shit for 5 years and worked as one for the past 13.

                But then again, I’m from Germany so maybe there is a language barrier between us somehow.

                We now know what you mean and you probably also know what the other person meant. All is well.

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                  https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mechanical

                  https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/manual

                  You’re welcome for the lesson on the finer semantic details of your secondary language.

                  Bonus terminology:

                  “Appeal to authority”: A logical fallacy in which it is claimed that a person’s expertise in a field is proof of a claim itself. This is a disputed fallacy, as there are indeed certain instances where it might applicable, such as a mechanical engineer describing the workings of mechanical systems, but is always a fallacy when they attempt to use their expertise in one field as proof in another.

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                    mechanical, adjective

                    of or relating to manual operations

                    Did you even read the links before posting them?

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                  You used to be able to get a mecha for a five cents. Gimme a mecha for a nickel, we’d say. We didn’t have actual mecha (because of the war) so we used jam jar lids instead. Now one time Puddinhead, his name was Gerald Brown but everyone called him puddinhead because he had this hat that looked like a pudding cup. I don’t know where he found it. Maybe he made it, which, in retrospect, was really neat. We were a little too hard on old Puddinhead. Anyway…