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LG’s changelog confirms its monitor app installs bloatware on Windows 11, exposing Microsoft’s long-standing problem
www.windowslatest.com/2026/07/21/lg-admits-its-monitor-app-installs-bloatware-via-windows-update-and-microsoft-is-letting-it-happen/
Replying to @sanitation@lemmy.today
Guess I’m going back to VGA then. Pretty sure old VGA shit doesn’t transfer metadata about themselves.
(just kidding, I use Linux)
Replying to @SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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.
Replying to @BorgDrone@feddit.nl
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.
Replying to @SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
The first version of DDC is from 1994