Paul Haddad 
Samsung insanity! *
* Via app + student account
Samsung deal is dead. Was it a price mistake, guess I’ll find out soon enough
Saul Sutherland@paul if I’m being fair, my Studio Display also has software updates. But they’re not so egregious that the monitor itself connects to the internet to fetch new firmware.
Even Dell monitors we deploy at work get updates these days. Makes it a bit of a pain as an IT admin, but the firmware update tool on Windows works quite well (dock monitor over USB-C)
@thatsthequy my preference is plug in a flash drive and select update on the OSD. I wouldn't have an issue with a windows based tool. Having to connect the monitor to WiFi isn't even that horrible, but having to log the monitor in to some account just to update the firmware is where I draw the line.
@paul yeeesh, requiring an account is bad. Even most Samsung TVs don’t go that far.