You don't need a video or a tool for this. You just need to click Start, type "Device insta" and then click on "Change device installation settings" when it shows up as a suggestion, and then change it from yes to no.
There's literally a windows setting to control this behaviour. It's ironic suggesting someone install a tool to prevent installing tools when you don't need the tool to do that.
probably retrieves a blob from LG which deploys the advert mill
Drivers can only automatically install software published in the Microsoft Store. Specifically it's installing this. https://apps.microsoft.com/det... Go to the description and click Read More to see what item 5) is on that list of software features.
Not just detection but I suspect it doesn't affect Slashdotters as the community here is widely known for both a) managing privacy settings in their OS and not using Windows 11 default "recommended settings", and also not using a Microsoft account.
There's a certain set of default settings (and an account) required for a driver to download associated software automatically from the Microsoft Store.
What are they packing in there?
You answered your own question, a GUI and the associated software to use the features of your mouse. If you're buying that mouse without using the associated features you're probably an idiot for overspending on that mouse.
By the way you're being dishonest. Not only is openrazor not feature complete compared to Synapse, it also is also dependent on a complete functioning python3 subsystem. The windows package is standalone.
Don't forget to calculate your entire dependency tree when attempting to quote Linux install sizes.
Not the monitor. It is Windows that goes out of its way to install something a connected device suggests, without asking the owner, and without any care if that is useful to the owner or not.
False. LG's driver manifest specifically requests the software to be installed. That's a good thing by the way, many devices these days require additional software to enable their functionality. For example the monitor in question will almost certainly require LG Calibration Studio installed (because if you are buying that monitor with that advertised feature set and you aren't going to use it's calibration function you should request your nurse to up your meds).
If it is a monitor, it might use it for incoming casting, but nothing else.
My monitor is a monitor, speaker, microphone, has a custom colour calibration unit built in, USB-C hub, and RGB lighting. Restricting on a device level is just useless as it effectively completely ignores the wide differences in features between devices.
Ultimately, monitors shouldn't have drivers.
Now more than ever monitors need "drivers", well not really drivers, but we're way beyond a time when the only thing available on the market took a standard input signal and produced a compliant sRGB output. Even today you can buy completely dumb monitors with zero additional features beyond displaying a video feed, and you'll still need drivers, if for no other reason than the driver manifest loading a pre-defined ICC profile so it displays colours correctly on your computer. God forbid the thing supports HDR.
Most monitors these days need to get something from the internet to be minimally functional.
In many cases a driver along does not allow full use of a device. Additional software is required. For example one of the *good* parts of this practice on these specific monitors is that if you plug in a monitor with a calibration unit it'll auto-download LG Calibration studio (which you almost certainly want because you paid extra for that specific feature). The more lame variant of that is RGB bling with keyboard, mice, etc. These aren't driver features that work without companion apps.
Automating the installation of companion apps for specific features is a good thing. Unfortunately these thundercunts at LG are abusing it and using the feature to shovel crapware.
Not all auto-installed software is crap ware, and not all hardware is usable with just drivers.
But were they automatic installs or were they put on the optional install list and had to be selected by the user?
Nope, fully automatic. This is part of the "recommended software" OS feature which by default on Windows is Opt Out and the user will never see the setting explicitly if they install windows with the "recommended settings".
The hardware has a manifest file. The manifest signals a driver download via Windows Update. The Windows Update installs an app from the Microsoft Store silently and automatically that is linked to the driver.
The only way out of this is:
a) customise all OS privacy settings meticulously.
b) not have a Microsoft account (in which case the Microsoft Store won't install anything).
If you can't compete, I guess just regulate and fine everyone else into oblivion.
Literally no one should be competing on selling illegal products that don't meet local regulations. Yes these companies should be pushed into oblivion. Right now at this very moment you can still find asbestos contaminated children's toys. Is that what you want people to compete for? Can't you just self harm in the comfort of your own house without advocating the rest of society follow your suicidal desires?
fuck off euro trash, get your own slashdot
He posts, unironically on a story about a European court fining a Chinese company.
They are also fully incorporated multi-nationals with offices in Amsterdam and Germany.
Literally no company that is worthy discussing on Slashdot is small enough that it doesn't have a legal registered footprint in multiple countries around the world. Alibaba hasn't been a Chinese international for a really long time. They were a multinational before their launch on the NYSE in 2014. They have had an official legal footprint since at least 2016 when they registered Alibaba B.V. headquartered in Amsterdam. Their business registration is KVK: 65271505
AliExpress is a subsidiary of Alibaba. Alibaba isn't "Chinese", it's a multinational including Alibaba B.V. headquartered in Amsterdam, and Alibaba GmbH headquartered in Munich.
It never ceases to amaze me that with every story about any fine of any company people here still don't understand what a multi-national company is and why courts have jurisdictions over them.
Sorry which one is which in the story you're describing? Both Amazon and Aliexpress goods overwhelmingly come in fast shipments. You can watch their tracking info from China. You can't clear customs one day in China and then hit customs in the EU the day after via container ship, and when you buy Chinese items that are not locally warehoused that's exactly what you get.
You may be thinking of Alibaba? That is actually a place where you do have a tendency to order things more like a container load.
The opposite of chasing tech is to just go with the flow and not give about it, not necessarily clinging on to nostalgia. EVs aren't tech at this point. They've been available for 15+ years now.
"Windows 10 is the last version of Windows" - Microsoft development evangelist in 2015
And he didn't lie. Windows 11 is a marketing name only. If you run an API call to GetVersion under Windows 11 you will get 10.0 as the result. Microsoft does not formally recognise Windows 11 as a separate OS version.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en...
We don't really understand it, so we'll give it to the programmers.
