By default? Maybe.

But there are both global and granular Windows policies to tweak this. I disabled the device driver specifically, as I do like plug-and-play for other devices.

No, I just mean windows update will pull an LG “driver” and install it to your system automatically when it detects the display.

My dumb LG monitor from 2020 got the adware update.

If you run it on Windows, it has nothing to do with the monitor’s hardware. Windows Update will just install the driver to your system when it recognizes the display.

Samsung one-ups them though. The UI and remote are, somehow, even worse.

This has been going on forever, though. I had an Asus motherboard that literally installed adware, and an even older Sony laptop that topped it.

Same. I noticed earlier this month when I got a popup to install Mcafee, out of nowhere. I was mortified.

That won’t save you. It’ll still install the driver if its hooked to Windows.

Old monitors need it for absolutely nothing, like my 2020 LG. Every feature works out of the box, because it has to over display cables.

I think at most it adds an ICC profile, but it’s not matched to the panel anyway and you can just install that seperately.

There’s a nugget of truth here.

Linux distros require some understanding of underlying subsystems.

Windows… in theory, does not. From AverageUser9000’s perspective, they can hit the Windows key, type “Google Chrome,” and install it, while on linux it’s not immediately obvious why it doesn’t. You’d have to look up documentation on linux repos, 3rd party repos, containerized stores, and… now you’ve just lost the interest of 99% of the population.

I’m not saying AverageUser9000 isn’t a moron, but I kind of sympathize too. We are effectively linux experts, and:

That’s for practical reasons.

Edge is Google Chrome underneath. So a linux release isn’t much more dev effort on Microsoft’s part.

But they develop Office, and obviously linux was never a commercial target for it.

Fuck this.

Fuck. This.

The last thing I want is forcing my money into an OpenAI/Anthropic investment at the peak of their bubble. Don’t listen to any of this, its all part of the con, to keep their scheme going and leave the public holding the bag.

Smartphone cameras are obscured in your pocket though. And isn’t typically always responsive like Alexa attached to your shirt.

I’m not saying you’re wrong though. It’s just lest obvious and doesn’t have the opportunity to film all the time.

I’ve now realizing that these Tech giants have poisoned their entire well:

• Want to make AR glasses? Cool! Oh… Uh, I guess we run a platform that handsomely pays pervs for engagement, so that’s not going to work.

• Let’s start gaming services. Oh… why does no one want to make an account with us, or trust we will keep it running?

• Generative models for creative media. Oh, uh… back to the AR glasses issue. And some others.

• Ah, so our LLMs need to reference the web to be at their best which…. We… Kind of killed for a quick buck? Oops.

There are hundreds of examples of this.

And now? The whole reason people use these platforms is being consumed by cancer. Rapidly, from the feel of things.

I’m a cynic. I believe companies like Meta can carry on destroying people and getting away with it, no matter what, and users will be indifferent.

But now I’m starting to suspect they they have nowhere to pivot to, because they’ve burned the forest down.

My Mom already does this around smartphones.

Some family thinks it’s weird or paranoid. I think it’s smart.

It sends the message. It’s an effective, reasonable way to get it across.

I mean, in theory we do. An AR display or earpiece with lots of sensors would be cool.

But these companies have all poisoned the well. No one trusts them nor users on their platforms anymore.

EDIT: In case we forgot, half the problem with the Meta glasses IS Instagram. They created a space where macho jerks can get super rich live-streaming being a jerk, so of course thats what they will use the glasses for.

Otherwise it could be a neat idea, but we are not in that universe.

OpenAI’s wearable hardware will be even better.

I dunno if it’s a pin or belt buckle or earpiece or what, but imagine such a thing with its camera always on, its microphone always recording and ready to talk back, plus whatever other sensors and data streams it has for “awareness.”

Even if they disable video recording on the thing, I think it will become taboo too.

I mean, Odyssey seems like an obvious target for a remaster, so maybe it will come back.

That was peak AC for me though. In fact, I have no motivation to try later titles because that felt like the series’ definitive game, to me. And Fate of Atlantis was such a good epilogue.

starfield won “most innovative game”

No way…

I’m not a gaming drama queen, but that’s just silly.

EDIT: Oh, it was the Steam Awards.

That makes sense. The voting is largely a popularity contest.

To be fair, engagement bait works.

Look how much Twitter ragebait gets upvoted here on Lemmy.

Whenever I go to check the source for the posts, they aren’t even real; it’s a bot account posting 24/7, or at the very least a dedicated engagement farmer. But people don’t care, they just want that feeling.

That’s fair, but does it have to be like that? Kids paying parents, for example, seems more like a choice than a necessity of living together.

I’ve just seen a lot of misery from the separation, even in the west. Elderly folks in miserable, expensive retirement homes, or new parents that just can’t get by with the amount of labor between them while their folks are lonely just across town. Dysfunctional households that would’ve never deteriorated with another set of eyes there.

…Maybe family compounds are too far. But I think families have moved to the other extreme of “uncommunality,” at least in some subcultures here, where we get a little too distant from other family.