PCs have almost never supported CEC. PCs use a different signalling method to indicate to the monitor that they’re on/off.

That is sort of what sponsored segments are, and what sponsorblock is quite effective at dealing with.

If they’re injected on the fly at variable time points, it gets harder, but I suspect fingerprinting could work well enough.

TVs often do a bad job at switching on when the computer turns on, then off when it turns off/goes to sleep. Drives me spare. That was fixed in like 1995-2000 for normal monitors.

The Science of Discworld novels are a fun mix of science and wizardry.

Thief of Time is not wizards but underrated Buddhist Time Monks.

The early wizards books didn’t really grow on me as well as the later other books.

Use of Weapons, Look to Windward, Surface Detail, and Hydrogen Sonata are all reasonably sex-filled (if not entirely sex-positive) too.

Definitely hits all the points of Luxury Gay Space Communism.