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Users are unimpressed, eager to toss devices if test sticks.

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[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (11 children)

They're not "smart" TVs. They're TVs with shitty android spyware boxes attached.

Stop using that garbage. Don't connect it to a network, just use it as a display.

If you need to watch YouTube on your TV go and grab an OSMC (Kodi-based OS for media boxes) media box. You can get a pre-built one for around $100, or install it yourself on a raspberry pi.

These manufacturers depend on you being lazy and accepting their spyware. You will save yourself so much more headache in the long run if you control your own hardware and software.

Trying to navigate through the world without some minimal knowledge of computers means you're going to get taken by every scam like what Roku is pulling.

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[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 2 days ago (21 children)

This is one of the many reasons why you should be your own streaming service. 🏴‍☠️

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[–] SandySocks@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We had one on our TV the other day. This will absolutely be our last Roku.

In the meantime I immediately installed PiHole, to block all their ads.

[–] srlnclt@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago

This is the way.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 24 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I will absolutely be getting rid of mine if I experience this.

[–] HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I only have my roku tv because I got it dirt cheap ages ago, I don't use it all that often and no good enough reason to replace it, I'm already considering replacing it with a dumb tv and just hooking up my laptop to it. If I ever experience this, it will make the cost of a new dumb tv 1000% worth it.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You can reset your Roku tv and simply not connect it to the internet. It will still work as a dumb tv.

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[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Basically punishment for people who either don't get their own streaming box/avoid tvs with roku built in.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (7 children)

What? This is reported to be happening on both sticks and tv versions of the rolu app.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 12 points 2 days ago (11 children)

It's capitalism... When every CEO, Board Member, and shareholder wants a yacht, it's literally never enough. They even created a term to describe this inevitable deterioration of every company's product: enshittification.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's not that they all want yachts, they make enough to each buy multiple yachts. It's just that nothing is ever enough. They don't know what success is, so they chase the undefined feeling until they die unfulfilled. Fucking living dead and a cancer on collective humanity

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[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I never plugged mine into the Internet. I just plugged in an Apple TV, and I’m good to go. No ads, no sweat, no problem.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

New devices don't allow that

[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I got mine three weeks ago from Amazon. How much more new can it get?

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[–] fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Roku is the worst thing to happen to TVs since motion smoothing.

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[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Apparently Valve might be releasing a shield-like thing. If they do it's an instant buy for me.

[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Go look at the down votes on all your posts and just how universally unpopular your take is - That's called being wrong. That's fine, you can be wrong sometimes, that's okay. It doesn't define you, but stop digging in the wrong direction.

I can pay for music, I often don't on principal. I work to find other ways to contribute to artists as directly as I can (patreon, merch, shows, etc). I'm not alone in that. You had some weird guilt socialized into you that tells you your value is in what you spend and own. Protest at any level is valid. Copyright law is bullshit, DMCA takedowns are bullshit, DRM and digital streaming music that you never actually legally own is all bullshit. Anything you can do to make that broken system nervous or hurt is a great and valuable thing to broader society.

You are unequivocally wrong here, you're the last person to realize that, but you still can realize it here and now today and go forward from here. How about it, take the olive branch, bud?

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