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LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent

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Re: LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent

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Post by eknkc »

ak217 wrote: post #343
dimgl wrote: post #288

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What do you recommend instead? In my opinion the Razer mice are always superior for FPS.

Logitech all the way. Logitech is a truly innovative company. They actually care deeply about ergonomics. They also introduced the first mass market application of programmable magnets (in the MX Master mouse scroll wheel) - that's incredibly advanced materials science.

They also managed to develop a steaming pile of shit called Logi Options+ which you need to set up your mouse (I only used the mac version to be fair)

Re: LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent

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Post by ezst »

flaunf221 wrote: post #331
ezst wrote: post #254

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That may sound obvious to you, but it's not for many, and this opinion of yours is shared by fewer and fewer people.

Some things not having viable alternatives on MacOS/Linux/BSD/whatever-else is not an opinion of mine. It's just life.

I didn't mean that you were nonfactual, only that you overgeneralise.

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Post by J_Shelby_J »

simoncion wrote: post #382
dimgl wrote: post #288

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What do you recommend instead? In my opinion the Razer mice are always superior for FPS.

If you can find an original Glorious [0] Model O, that's a nice piece of hardware. The new Model O looks like it only works with their new, totally garbage Glorious CORE v2 software. If you never want to change the DPIs, lighting, or button assignments, & etc then you don't need the software... so if what the hardware does out of the box is fine for you, then you don't need to worry about how trash CORE v2 is. CORE v…

Model I with four thumb buttons is irreplaceable for me

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Post by scottydelta »

drnick1 wrote: post #375
scottydelta wrote: post #321

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that's the same conclusion I came to and the device I am developing is basically a Raspberry Pi with my own modified OS that has a casting canvas and it can show all kinds of content. No third-party installs, ads and spywares!

Not sure what your homegrown solution is, but check out Plasma Bigscreen too.

it looks very interesting, thanks for pointing me to it.

My solution is a casting device like chromecast or apple tv which works without apps and cables. Now I am extending the device's canvas for personal use case without the concept of app stores. AI can control the canvas, show multimedia content, open any website/app, and show you options to log in by extracting context, then control it.

So I can tell it to open netflix, it shows login options on screen and once logged in, you can ask it to show catalog or play something by just talking to it.

It can connect and cast content to TWO external screens simultaneously, that I think is the most powerful feature.

Re: LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent

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Post by frollogaston »

krige wrote: post #225
gkbrk wrote: post #109

A monitor cannot install software on your computer by the way. It's Windows installing this software automatically (for some reason), so the blame should be on Microsoft. Autorun of malware when you plugged in a USB drive was also a Windows issue, I'd classify this as the same security problem.

The monitor should absolutely take the major part of the blame by being the source of the malware and poisoning the system for everyone else.

Ironically if Microsoft responded by just never signing LG software again, but kept this auto-install thing in, LG monitors would become the best to use with Windows.

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Post by raverbashing »

embedding-shape wrote: post #75
raverbashing wrote: post #37

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Honestly yeah MS should get all the flack (which is mostly deserved) of this Manufacturer does whatever crap they want with "it works" and then MS gets the complaints A driver should only be that. A driver

> MS should get all the flack (which is mostly deserved) of this I don't see why we can't blame both here? And I'm a big LG user, I'm writing this comment via a LG monitor, our main TV is LG, dishwasher and clotheswasher is also LG. But still, that Microsofts enables this behavior should rightly put them at the stake for this, and also LG should get flack too, just because something is possible doesn't mean you have…

We can

I don't think "should" is the best word here, I mean it more like "They will (eventually)"

But what they should/are aware of (and work against) is shenanigans by the HW vendors

Re: LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent

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Post by j45 »

This appears to be much worse on so many more fronts than this article says.

It's basically how a virus would infect your computer through a USB Key.

Forcing itself to be installed, hiding what it does, sustaining itself across reboots, bypassing all security restrictions... because a monitor might need something new after all these decades?

Re: LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent

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Post by Grombobulous »

geon wrote: post #193
Grombobulous wrote: post #177

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Just look at Microsoft’s revenue breakdown that they publish. Windows revenue is alarmingly small. I don’t think it’s a loss leader but Microsoft gets almost nothing from OEM Windows licenses and basically nobody buys it retail. This is not coming to the Linux world. The moment this sort of thing happens, distros get forked.

Aren’t ms completely dependent on consumer windows for mindshare? I doubt anyone would bother getting into programming with ms tech unless they just happened to run it on their desktop.

Microsoft will happily sell you someone else’s tech stack on Azure.

My macOS-using employer gives much more money to Microsoft than Apple.

Cloud SaaS things they’re using: Entra ID, Power BI, Sharepoint, corporate email (365), OneDrive.

Microsoft applications installed by my employer on my PC: Teams, Office including Outlook, Defender.

Our applications are Java running on Linux and we could migrate 100% of our platform to Azure without any issue if we had a reason to do that.

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