• The Velour Fog @lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Why tf do monitors need apps now? Buttons on the side. Basic settings menu. Gotten by fine for decades with that.

    • UnityDevice@lemmy.zip
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      2 hours ago

      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.

    • Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip
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      7 hours ago

      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.

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 hours ago

    Guess I’m going back to VGA then. Pretty sure old VGA shit doesn’t transfer metadata about themselves.

    (just kidding, I use Linux)

    • BorgDrone@feddit.nl
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      8 hours ago

      Pretty sure old VGA shit doesn’t transfer metadata about themselves.

      Pretty sure it did. DDC has been a thing since forever. It certainly existed on VGA.

      • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        8 hours ago

        Interesting. I was fighting with KDEs implementation of ddc today because it’s fucking crashing my power management system when the monitors go to sleep. I didn’t realize it went that far back.

  • sychthys@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Yep. An LG Ultragear monitor I’ve owned for about a year and a half just installed its crap somehow this morning on my work laptop which it’s been connected to for that long. I’m pretty sure however it’s doing it somehow bypassed the group policy and controls my company is enforcing on it. There’s no way they’ve white listed that kind of bloatware crap with how locked down they need to have these devices.