I guess after this it's more whining than actually OnTopic related...
Called Lenovo (after I had been trying to get a hold of their support through a support ticket, chat or email - which is actually a disgraceful process and such a big hassle probably purposefully setup by Lenovo, at least in my country) and they could provide zero absolutely zero help.
I then told them I just need to know they are aware of the problems and are working to solve them with a firmware update or such and said I can’t be the only one with these issues and the guy assured me he had never heard about anyone else with similar issues and asked me to call the Apple support (after he asked me to try the Windows driver, twice, even though I was very clear about using a one of Apples new MacBook Pro with M1 Pro/their own silicon) because it was probably an issue on their side and I said I could try that but if they assure me it’s not on their end as well, it must mean I’ve gotten a faulty unit, he then told me to try talking with them and see if I can find any solutions on the internet and if I’m unable to solve it I should call them back next week to start a process to get a replacement unit and ended the call.
Now that I tried to research this issues on Lenovo monitors I found a thread were it seemed the support employee did his best but maybe isn’t getting the necessary solutions due to a lack of resources or such and also he wasn’t able to promise the people that are affected that they’d get their money back unless they receive a solution (it shouldn’t be a issue if it’s marketed to work in a way it doesn’t but I assume Lenovo is having some bad management that looks more on results for the current year, without any thought for consequences when customers are neglected for a long time. wasn’t entirely about the same issue though it seemed like some was discussing that and others discussing an issue regarding Power Delivery (which works just fine for me).
I’ll of course update whenever this is resolved, just annoying when I realize Lenovo is seeming very neglecting towards consumers (but probably not towards businesses) I could probably have bought a monitor more than €200 cheaper if I knew this wouldn’t work (we’ll see) and spent those on a nice docking station etc.
as I said maybe this will get resolved though or maybe it isn’t their fault but I guess my conversation with “tech support” lowered my expectations quite a bit because the guy did really not seem to know a lot and was very apparent that he did not want to get involved.
