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.

Still pathetic. Try again?

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

I think where it breaks down is when LG involves a unrelated third party in this case McAfee.

Socialize the losses, privatize the profits.

They could just hire people to do it and then the fruits of that labor could be available to everyone as open source. As an added bonus we wouldn't be constantly paying for the profitability of private companies for no particularly good reason. And we wouldn't be creating billionaires that are going to undermine our democracy.

But something something socialism so here we are... All of us stuck with shit software that constantly spies on us

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.

But from what I understand they don't allow you to do what LG did. It's explicitly forbidden in the guidelines for a Windows certified driver.

I don't know what made LG think they could get away with this nonsense. Every single tech YouTuber on the planet has gone crazy reporting this.

But we don't want that! Yes, we want the global temperatures to stay down, but not by having less sunlight. That would have its own set of problematic consequences.