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now that FOX news corp(not disney fox) will likely use roku to peddle scams and right wing propaganda, you should throw it away.
If you feel similarly grossed out by the Fox acquisition, I’d recommend you make similar moves. Instead of a Roku Stick, you could use the Google TV Streamer or Apple TV 4K, both of which offer more modern interfaces than Roku’s.
Oh yes, the exemplar of stealing your data and the biggest walled garden in tech are far superior choices!
Maybe I’m confused, but those are pretty much the only choices?? Oh wait throw amazon in there too I guess lmao
There are always options.
Plug a laptop into your TV via HDMI and buy a cheap Bluetooth keyboard. Install ublock origin. Sail on over to a certain community on Db0 for some advice on free streaming services.
For most people, that’s work, not an “option” per se. Also, most people run win11 and we can all agree that’s a horrendous option on a tv
And most people are fine with giving their data to Google, Samsung, etc. and that’s fine if it works for them, but for the people who don’t mind a little more work, the options are there.
Most people are not dealing with that. Making a laptop work as well as a dedicated remote first device is a pain in the ass for most people. People want panel and remote based ui’s first.
I never said most people would do it. I said there are other options and described one. If people want to be lazy, that’s on them.
It takes such a minimal amount of effort nowadays to set up a barebones pi or laptop with Linux , hook to TV and just watch in web browser or use a graphical frontend like kodi. Theres millions of sources for doing all of this.
Oh well , my coworkers can complain to me about $250 monthly cable bills. I’ll just smile.
I know what you’re saying but there’s dozens of people at just my company making $100k plus and they need to go to the phone store to set up a new email address. Like these people don’t know how to make a pivot table in excel and they have no interest in learning it.
Most humans just don’t have much intellectual curiosity they just want to get paid and spend money.
There’s always Vero (https://osmc.tv/vero/). Basically customized Kodi (OSMC) already installed on hardware for them; they can just unbox and hook up to the T. V.
That’s pretty cool actually, that looks like it would work for most people, idk ppl just buy what they see in ads for the most part unfortunately
This is exactly what I do almost to a T, but I use an Atari VCS (not the original 🙃) and a Logitech wireless KB. Or my phone through KDE connect.
It works just fine, SO likes it. If people would try, but theyre lazier than they have ever been, and dumb. It really was not that long ago that an HTPC was somewhat common.
People only know what big tech feeds them.
We can blame the lazier and dumber part on Fox and the Murdochs as well. It’s a whole ecosystem of misinformation, dependency, and evil.
Divide by zero?
Yes. The community in question is blocked on .world.
Google is literally a spyware company.
Until roku starts shitting the bed it is the least worst choice for those that want ready to go streaming sticks or TVs. I will continue using my roku sticks until they force ads. I already turned off all the home ads and suggestions except the one for roklue or whatever I couldn’t find a setting for.
haven’t had mine connected for a few months but my dietpi with the free adguard home (like pihole) was working great to block the ads on the ui and in a lot of the programming in the ‘free’ apps.
least worst choice
I have Roku because they haven’t died yet but AppleTV is a better choice. It’s a Roku without the ads.
Does apple tv have a streaming stick?
I couldn’t find one and couldn’t tell if the box had some easy way to mount it to the wall behind the tv.
No stick.
But there’s a wide range of Apple TV unit mounts for your wall or TV.
I’ll consider spending nearly $200 each to replace each of my $40 roku sticks when they actually implement ads I can’t turn off.
Normies just aren’t going to self host nor do they give a shit that big tech harvests their data.
My personal choice has been the “walled garden.” And as “walled in” as it is, it streams Jellyfin just fine.
Can you put jellyfin on a USB/HDMI stick?
I like the form factor.
Jellyfin client needs to run on an OS. I use a raspi 5 as the local PC, then libreelec, to run the jellyfin for kodi client. It works flawlessly.
I have no idea. But to be wife-approved it’s got to be navigable from the couch, and a USB stock doesn’t sound like it would be.
It only takes 4 minutes to boot
Agreed
Nay better open source options for this, or should I just get a raspberry pie with a jellyfin client?
The better option is under development. Plasma Bigscreen is to be part of the next KDE release
And Switchfin is a TV friendly Jellyfin client for Linux
https://flathub.org/en/apps/fun.dragonfly.switchfin
Edit: Plasma Bigscreen has just been released
Yeah that works well. There is also Kodi, which is an excellent and deep FOSS project for HTPCs. It has native jellyfin clients from the jellyfin devs if you want to go all in on jellyfin, but also has its own interface as well for other apps like ad free YouTube/etc.
For an OS, I’d recommend “libreelec,” which is just a Linux distro that boots immediately into kodi.
I was ready to discount this as pearl clutching but after reading it, I’m of the same mindset.
It’s long been time to dump Roku. This is just the last few nails in the coffin.
Just steal the content and get a good android TV with Plex or jellyfin if you hate yourself.
Which of those three things do you do if you hate yourself?
Jellyfin. Absolute dumpster fire with any remote. I honestly can’t believe they have made a remote friendly UI.
Either works. Plex is heavy down the enshitification path but is great for remote access sharing. And Jellyfin is harder to get hardware transcoding going well and the clients aren’t as good and it’s very insecure to run for remote access (basically you need to VPN into your home network instead of public remote access).
edit: fixed “so secure” to “insecure”
Any, really. All if you completely loathe yourself, though:)
Honestly, jellyfin is the way to go, though. At least it’s just you hating yourself and not a whole company and ad machine hating you too, like with plex.
Plex is fine as long as your not paying monthly. I spent my $75 15 years ago. It’ll take a lot to get me to swap off.
I prefer Kodi>umbrella>torbox. It was real debrid but they got kinda broken after they were sold. Im still riding out my subscription but still
Yes
Plex
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What do I do if I already have roku and it’s the only thing I have?
Factory reset and never connect it to the internet.
Edit: That’s if you want to keep it a dumb tv. I know there are likely OS alternatives if you want to bother, but I ended up just resetting mine and keeping it connected to my mini-pc.
And what about Roku devices that aren’t TVs?
Pi-hole all the domains not required for content streaming
They’re great for screen casting. Reset and no more internet. Just screen mirror your phone playing apps that don’t have ads.
They bought tubi too which is a damn shame.
they owned a part of roku at that time, and were forced to sell that to buy tubi.
This is a space that needs alternative. I use Nvidia shield but it defaults to Googles home page so I see ads
roku was pretty much the only viable ‘alternative’ to the big companies and studios. didn’t even need a credit card (nocc link) or to reveal personal details other than an email for an account (for the devices)-could watch free stuff without a login with the browser. if you did pay for stuff, you can sub to several other services through roku (kinda like how prime does it).
fox was actually forced to sell its stake in roku when it bought tubi a few years ago. that should be enough right there to say fu go away, but ofc this admin will conveniently ignore that fact and give roku and its ~ 150 million screens to the propaganda machine that is fox.
What’s a good alternative? I’m fine installing alternative OS and was looking at some lineageOS TV stuff but seeing mixed reports on whether you can get full quality on streaming services that way
Torrenting. The reddit piracy megathread is quite good.
The Onn streaming devices are recommended a lot. I picked one up for a new TV and besides needing a google account it’s inoffensive and supports Projectivity launcher to customize and reduce ads.
needing a google account
no ty. i’d rather use a pc-based device even if it means my ‘remote control’ is a wireless mini-keyboard with trackpad.
I have a Shield TV running LineageOS. It tells me that the device is not optimised for Netflix, but it plays in 1080. I mostly just use Jellyfin, mostly.
What’s the benefit of running LOS over stock Android Shield ships with? Asking as someone who has the device with Projectivity Launcher, Jellyfin, Immich Frame, etc. Is it for degoogling?
Does it playback Dolby Vision and HDR10+ content?
Not sure about Netflix, but 4k Dolby Vision / HDR10 through Jellyfin is fine. I don’t know if I have any HDR10+ files to check, I’ll find out and let you know.
Oh, cool. I read on the LineageOS wiki that Dolby Vision doesn’t work on the shield with LOS installed, so good to hear that it works. The LOS wiki also says that Nvidia’s AI upscaling doesn’t work, so not sure if that’s also the case.
Yo ho, yo ho,a
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I’m going to turn off network access on my two Roku TVs (which will keep them from monetizing my attention). For those sets, I’m going to pick up a used Apple TV 4K and dig up my older 1080p Apple TV.
From frying pan to fire in one easy step.
I watch TV over antenna, and my Roku TV has a great interface for that. Antenna is just a simple tile right next to my other inputs or apps. It has a nice guide so I can see what’s on, and I can pause and rewind. Is there any other TV or device that offers this convenience?
I really would like to switch because my Roku TVs are constantly freezing and crashing and have to be rebooted.
Just connect a raspberry pi or a mini PC to your TV; you can steam Netflix/Hulu/etc from web browsers. Get yourself a wireless keyboard with a track pad to control it.
The raspberry pi supports cec, you can control it with the remote.
That’s just an example link from eBay, not recommending that item or seller specifically. But you can get them that run off a USB dongle, or Bluetooth. They’re absolutely fantastic.
Roku was trash from day one, the original advertelevision, i cant fathom what person it would make sense for, just people falling for marketing but it really doesn’t make sense to buy one or even accept it as a gift – but idk people also buy amazon sticks which are basically convert your tv to a roku device. Idk man people are dumb and scumbags take advantage wcyd
Who are they kidding? It’s been years since they started scanning everything you were watching to inject ads into it. If people were happy with that, they’re happy with this.
Ditched my roku with the policy change that required agreeing, or no access to the device. It went in the bin.
i’ve never even known what Roku is
It’s the Japanese word for 6
its basically “low cost tv” subsidized by constant ads.
It’s a smart tv preloaded with ads, idk but i guess people like ads? I don’t get it.
I knew it was a box think I first saw it when curious about a hardware kodi (say 15-18 years ago?) back when they were newer. Though I just wanted something to show me what I have in my network, never used the other streaming on it, maybe missed out I dunno.
Oh I replied cause I wanted a device/program to have a nice browsing interface for my owned files, and having a program with ads? Big nope. Mean maybe I missed out but nothing I’ve read seemed overly interesting when I just wanted a nice interface. Now just use a PC with Kodi for my stuff with browsers / apps for streaming, works well enough. Probably pay too many services but not the only one in the house.
If I could never see another ad I’d be so happy heh south Park flashbacks.
It’s what people say when they sneeze
