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in reply to Helix 🧬

Also a reason not to buy LG
in reply to B0rax

tbf LG monitors are quite good hardware, but I've been buying Dell the last 10 years and never had issues.
in reply to Helix 🧬

From the same article: Dell also uses Windows Update to deliver Alienware Command Center
in reply to Helix 🧬

That doesn't help you. Most keyboards and laptops have copilot key by now. You have to specifically look for lne without. Last time I looked, Tuxedo doesn't have one. Even framework laptops have one IIRC.
in reply to Helix 🧬

Funny that before I switched to linux I would see comments like this and would go "mehh" and now that I'm on Linux for just 3 days I already see that people who are in windowslop are like the people connected to the machines in the matrix. They need their fake steaks while they're being used to the benefit of others.

After configuring it to your liking it's so fucking good it's addicting.

in reply to along_the_road

I wonder what would happen to a person if they were to install software onto LG's computers without their consent.
in reply to along_the_road

How does the economy work when every company have to rely on addsinstead of their own products?
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in reply to danielfm123

What do you mean "have to?" These companies are making money hand over fist, not paying a large portion of their employees a livable wage, and choose to spy on us for extra profit.
in reply to TimboSlice

What are you going to do? Sue them? Call 911? Ring up your lawyer?

"Operator, this company is doing some very illegal fuckery! Please arrest them right away!"

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in reply to TimboSlice

It might be, if they hadn't already agreed to it in the windows ToS, and/or in the LG ToS.
in reply to along_the_road

it puts me off ever buying or recommending an Alienware monitor


Why would anyone recommend an Alienware monitor? They don't make displays. You're just recommending which branding the display has.

in reply to teawrecks

Alienware monitors are Dell monitors, which are usually pretty good in my experience. I don't know what the deal is with Alienware Control Center. It's kind of annoying but it's not spyware.
in reply to i_am_not_a_robot

Right, I'm saying Dell doesn't make displays. Generally LG makes the displays that Dell uses, but apparently they also use Samsung and AU Optronics. But even then, I believe there's some Chinese middle-man OEM actually making the displays, and in certain countries (including the US) Dell buys those and slaps their Dell and Alienware branding on them.

It makes sense to recommend an LG/Samsung/AUO monitor, it doesn't make sense to generally recommend all Dell or Alienware monitors. Maybe a specific product worked well for you, but you can't make broad statements about all their monitors because the only thing they are sure to have in common is the name brand selling them.

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in reply to teawrecks

It's more complicated than that. At this point, a Dell/Alienware branded monitor with an LG panel is preferable over an LG branded monitor with an LG panel. Even if Dell doesn't make any panels, the parts they do contribute and their quality standards can make their monitors better quality than other brands that do make their own panels. I think it's the same with Apple. They don't make panels either but their monitors are generally regarded as high quality, if overpriced.
in reply to teawrecks

This statement doesn't contradict yours, they only said they avoid Alienware branded monitors now.

That does not mean the inverse statement is also true, they didn't say they recommended the whole brand of monitors before.

Maybe they recommended specific models with Alienware branding before and will not do so in the future because of this bloatware.

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