I find it so incredibly short sighted to implement such shenanigans. I was set to buy a LG 39GX950B as an upgrade to my current ultrawide until I read that they will automatically install an installer that will ask whether you want to install additional tools every freaking time you plug in the monitor. Absurd.

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Terr_ 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> short sighted to implement such shenanigans

Even if they were convenient shenanigans, in the longer term:

Political action > Purchasing Choices > Individual modifications

	▲	left-struck 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I disagree, clearly purchasing choices only hurt you and doesn’t help the situation. Instead we should embrace hacker culture and take by force that which won’t be given to us. By force I mean the gentle kind of force of forcibly owning the stuff you already legally own. There’s never been a better time, we’re in this sweet spot where we have LLM agents that can help normal people do this stuff, but not yet at the point where a significant amount of the consumer technology we use has been hardened.