Yes, but the donation is not coming from their income. They give 100 bucks away they did not earn and therefore were not actually taxed on. But those 100 bucks are still reducing their income. So, taking your numbers, they pay 30 bucks less without any loss on their actual income.
Short version: modified MILS plates carry 12V power across the whole layout. Inside those MILS plates is enough space to hide a Raspberry Pi Pico W, which controls lights and motors on this plate. It communicates with the Mosquitto broker to coordinate actions, e.g light effects.
I see this whole LG affair as a good thing. Windows users get shown how fucked up their OS and ecosystem is by this, and LG monitors will drop into the discount zone for users who have Linux and don't have to deal with such shit.
Been there, did that. Wrote shell utilities like that. No linking of Startup.obj, just my code and the linker that turned my .obj into a scatterloadable executable. Run it from the shell, the system provides a default stack and jumps right into the first function.
The whole executable was less than a kilobyte in size. It accessed the system tick timer, used it to seed a RNG, which was actually part of the executable, chose a random quote from a megabyte-sized fortune file, and printed it. Everything clean, all resources closed and returned. It even had error handling.
Keep in mind that those amounts are still small change for him.