That sounds like a complete hallucination to me. Please reconnect with the real world.

Always the time-honored classic. Of course, it hastens the demise of society, but who cares about minor details like that ...

Governments are generally not made up of people with real capabilities. And the voted-for parts are worse.

Well, it can be _done_. It would still not _work_. The problem is that this would preclude use of that monitor in a lot of scenarios _and_ the ads would either get stale or you would have to magic in some network interface for the monitor.

You obviously have given up. Not everybody has.

I see you have chosen to double down on the pathetic. Well, I guess this is all you can do.

I think that it does, because most people in history bought a PC from an OEM, and the rest of us could get an OEM copy if we wanted to. Having been a Mac user up into the 040 days, and then slightly again after that, I did always appreciate the fact that Apple wouldn't even in theory hassle you about making your own copies of the System disks. But: Apple wasn't giving you anything that it didn't make sense for them to give you, and they for most of history they've charged a substantial price premium and provided inferior performance. Even today, when they actually have impressive hardware for a time longer than the moment the G5 had in the sun, they still only excel up into the mid-range, but I have to admit they're killing it there.

I paid $100 for the last version of Windows I bought (the absolutely peak Windows 7 Pro x64, for what it's worth) and I got a legit system builder's license as I was building a potato of Theseus which has evolved into the big black cube-shaped 5900X I'm using now. I could run that Windows 7 in a VM today if I want to, and I occasionally do when I need to run some kind of programmer or something — just attach a hub to the VM to solve all the awkwardness. But I haven't run either Windows or MacOS except under protest since I discovered AmigaOS and Unix at nearly the same time, in 1991.

It seems to me that there is a general lack of sanity in the world. This is only one of the most personally irritating personifications.

That's fair in general, but that still doesn't mean that you should chase every CVE immediately... I know, see above

Both things

Still pathetic. Try again?

Fortunately that does not actually work. I am sure they would love to do it though.

Guidelines that get reluctantly enforced only when things blow up are not worth anything.

"Literally required"? Such nonsense. Sane driver installation is just as subject to sysadmin consent as all other software installation. What do you think how this goes if somebody manages a supply-chain attach on this, especially on, say, an industrial control system that cannot simply be turned off?

Indeed. Insecure by design. In a rational world, this designed-in vulnerability would exclude Windows from most uses.

Clearly. This LG crap-show is just one more indicator, but the fundamental problem is all Microsoft.