Explain?
The hardware cost me less than 5 bucks.
So the ban is reaching exactly the people it was set out to reach. Good.
Did you post the exact same text a few months ago, or are there already recycling bots active on Lemmy?
Und jetzt bitte noch in Deutschland.
Foreign propaganda masquerading as free speech.
For a video call, I'm not sure that really matters a whole lot, but I guess that depends on the use case.
Reads more like the investment tanked and he's hoping for a recovery.
Shorting sounds nice though, long term.
Social credit doesn't exist.
It was a proposal that was piloted in 4 cities, and then scraped.
One thing that does exist is that if you are taken to court for certain antisocial behaviors (including not paying debts) is that you can be sentenced to certain hardships, i.e. banned from domestic flights or high speed trains (commuters take 10 times as long, if not more, on long distance travels), your application for a passport can be denied, you can be barred from home ownership etc. etc. for a number of years.
Those hardships were proposed as outcomes of bad social credit scores, vs. preferential treatment for enrolling kids in good schools, better interest rates on loans and deposited, eligibility to pre-book domestic trains on high intensity days (on Chinese New Year, trains are frequently booked out).
The benefits have been completely discarded, and the hardships were taken over into the penal code.
Source: Used to live in China during the pilot phase (foreigners were exempted though), I speak Chinese, my wife is Chinese, and I still visit frequently.
I guess it depends on the app, but I just checked and both Skype and Teams show me the capture card as input source, and the preview picture looks fine. So I'm pretty sure it works in an actual call, though I haven't tried it yet.
Both apps heavily compress the video signal though, even if you set the quality to 1080p, so I doubt it makes a huge difference compared to a regular webcam.
I have a high end Canon myself, and the card does an excellent job. I bought it while living in China though, tech there costs a fraction of what you pay in the US.