Building it into the monitor wouldn’t even be hard. Especially if it’s a lightning bolt connection, which can also act as a USB connection. So it coult filch a network connection, run ads overlayed on the monitor. Monitor is touchscreen and you have to physically press the tiny “dismiss” button next to the huge “install” button. Mistakenly pressing install sends a keyboard command to the PC that opens a terminal and runs a winget install command.

The fact that I could think of this means that it’s probably already in the works.

It would be awesome if a website cropped up like “ifixit” but was “ibreakit” or something. And it had instructions to surgically physically disable stuff like this on all sorts of models. Like “make a marker on a dremel bit that is 1/2 an inch deep, measure 3 inches from this corner and 4 inches from that corner, make a dot. Drill your dremel into that dot to the 1/2inch marker on your dremel bit to break the traces to the wifi antenna”

Or something like that. It would clearly have to have very bright “if you break your shit we are not responsible” warnings.

Duck penises.

If you know, you know.

If you dont, it’s probably better off.

It’s even less interesting when all of the content is just reposts made by bots and all of the comments are made by bots. All of the original content has already been copied.

It was a bummer to watch it it all happen over time. I remember using reddit in like 2010 and it was great. It stayed great until maybe 2015. Then it slowly started to become too popular. It started to get targeted with fake viral ad campaigns. Those worked, and then from there it was fast downhill.

Oh well… I remember when AOL was cool too. So I guess that’s just she way she goes.

You can search for it by the appx name and then use a pipe to remove the package. Then you don’t need to worry about specific version numbers:

Get-AppxPackage -Name ‘LGElectronics.LGMonitorApp’ | Remove-AppxPackage

The only real case I can think of where people like thin clients is when they move between stations. I worked at a hospital that used them and it was a fantastic solution. A doctor/nurse/whatever could walk up to any station, beep their ID, and a couple second later their session would load up. It was a huge pain in the ass to build and maintain though. These new devices might actually have a benefit there. Managing W365 through Azure/Intune is leagues easier than managing Citrix with Windows VM pools.