On this model, the indicator of micphone mute is not working properly in Linux due to how the device is implemented in ALSA and pulseuaio. The microphone device is suplex and has its micrphone LED event set to the wrong one.
Use the following script to fix this:
#!/bin/bash
transcription of a speech [Clay Shirky] gave at the Web 2.0 in 2008, emphasis by @jm3
I was recently reminded of some reading I did in college, way back in the last century, by a British historian arguing that the critical technology, for the early phase of the industrial revolution, was gin.
The transformation from rural to urban life was so sudden, and so wrenching, that the only thing society could do to manage was to drink itself into a stupor for a generation. The stories from that era are amazing-- there were gin pushcarts working their way through the streets of London.
And it wasn't until society woke up from that collective bender that we actually started to get the institutional structures that we associate with the industrial revolution today. Things like public libraries and museums, increasingly broad education for children, elected leaders--a lot of th
