I am using an LG ultra wide monitor and have not had any popups or ads.

My heart aches for those who can't opt out of using Windows.

I think this is how they are going to make us pay rent for what we bought. They will make everything unusable unless you pay more and make some cuckoo TOS saying that you agree to be held in contempt if you circumvent their measurements.

Honestly, if we don't push it back hard, it will only get worse and worse. Why we were cancelling people if they used wrong pronouns and suddenly we got tired of doing the same with stuff that we all should agree on that is terrible.

It may seem extreme, but we need laws about digital breaking and entering/assault that cover things like this. It is being done specifically to harm you and without your consent or knowledge. That is assault. We just, as a society, need to start naming things what they actually are and treating them that way.

the instructions to enable "Prevent automatic download of applications associated with device metadata" don't work for me w/ W11, any ideas? thanks

LG's bad faith actions aside I'd think this also casts significant doubt on MS's running of Win Update.

Why are they allowing mystery crap to be installed on user machines on plugging in a device? All sort of aggressive driver signing rules yet crapware autoinstalls is somehow cool? MS wtf are you doing?

Why are hardware manufacturers so shit at software?

Whether it’s router safety or NVIDIA software hammering DNS servers hundreds of thousands of times or this. Across the board they seem below average competent when it comes to software. I get that they’re specializing on hardware but why so very bad?

Edit. This isn’t even the only thread today. See TPlink fucking up on leaking your GPS coordinates also on front page

Windows is malware

It's shit like this that caused me to start refusing to help my mom and her friends with their windows computers. I'm not going to support their shady activities anymore. If you want my help the first thing we're doing is installing Linux.