sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 hours agoLG’s changelog confirms its monitor app installs bloatware on Windows 11, exposing Microsoft’s long-standing problemwww.windowslatest.comexternal-linkmessage-square15linkfedilinkarrow-up1167arrow-down11
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minus-squareThe Velour Fog @lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up40arrow-down1·10 hours agoWhy tf do monitors need apps now? Buttons on the side. Basic settings menu. Gotten by fine for decades with that.
minus-squareUnityDevice@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·2 hours agoI believe if you want to set up picture-in-picture on LG monitors, you have to use their application - the osd menu can’t do it for some reason.
minus-squareLudicrous0251@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·7 hours agoRealistically, they dont, but LG’s PR team will probably give you a speil about updating firmware, bringing new content aware features to the screen, etc. All bullshit so they can get more data from you.
minus-squareWereCat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·7 hours agoIt doesn’t. It’s just an adware
minus-squarefemtek@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down1·9 hours agoI believe from what I read it windows auto downloads it as part of the driver.
minus-squareSnot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·9 hours agoIt’s literally a documented design in the Windows store
Why tf do monitors need apps now? Buttons on the side. Basic settings menu. Gotten by fine for decades with that.
I believe if you want to set up picture-in-picture on LG monitors, you have to use their application - the osd menu can’t do it for some reason.
Realistically, they dont, but LG’s PR team will probably give you a speil about updating firmware, bringing new content aware features to the screen, etc.
All bullshit so they can get more data from you.
It doesn’t. It’s just an adware
I believe from what I read it windows auto downloads it as part of the driver.
It’s literally a documented design in the Windows store