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- technology@lemmy.world
- technology@lemmit.online
Users are unimpressed, eager to toss devices if test sticks.
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This is one of the many reasons why you should be your own streaming service. 🏴☠️
Shut up. Stop making every thread about your piracy agenda. Nobody cares. And this isn’t even remotely related to the topic in this case. Apparently you don’t even know what Roku is.
Nobody decent shares your opinion. Shut your mouth and sit on your hands.
U mad bro?
Now this is the classic Internet retort I require of my Lemmy subscription
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Really shit the bed with that one m8, got something going on? Send me a dm and talk it out
Just take it elsewhere. I’m tired of seing the same comment about piracy on 75% of my threads recently. You don’t need to tell us you do piracy. You’re not actually on a mission. You can cope elsewhere.
You know what would make you less mad? Watching less ads. You know you could do that? Piracy.
say what you will, but piracy ensures that my copy of Brokeback Mountain will never be taken from me again.
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I wish I could, but I didn’t type it.
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.
Roku is the worst thing to happen to TVs since motion smoothing.
News to me, what Roku do?
I mean the sticks and boxes, not the TV’s themselves, I get those suck.
You ever wonder why many of Rokus remotes don’t come with a mute button? Weird huh… Maybe just an especially expensive button, huh?
I don’t understand the question. I’m reacting to this story, what the company is doing, without distinction between the branded TVs and peripheral devices.
I will absolutely be getting rid of mine if I experience this.
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.
You can reset your Roku tv and simply not connect it to the internet. It will still work as a dumb tv.
I’ll try that, thank you.
Yup!! 100%
Basically punishment for people who either don’t get their own streaming box/avoid tvs with roku built in.
What? This is reported to be happening on both sticks and tv versions of the rolu app.
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.
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
Enshittification was coined for online services, which includes roku, but doesn’t apply to all products.
Enshittification was coined for online services, which includes roku, but doesn’t apply to all products.
American businessmen: “Hold my beer and watch this”
hence, punishing those who didnt get their own streaming box (that isnt roku based), or has a tv that has roku built into it.
Not what your original comment said. And completely disingenuous too, since the Roku streaming box is one of the most popular ones
Owners of smart TVs and streaming sticks running Roku OS
The article clearly states
Owners of smart TVs and streaming sticks running Roku OS
It IS affecting tvs with roku built in.
hence its PUNISHING those who bought tvs that have it BUILT IN
Then you are writing it to mean the opposite of what you intended.
Is this what you meant?
hence, punishing those who didnt get their own streaming box (that isnt roku based), AND those who have a tv that has roku built into it.
hence why i went to clarify it on the second comment. I can agree that on the first attempt, it can be read off, but the second attempt clearly shows that roku tvs are affected regardless of how you read it
I remember when Roku was the big cost saving alternative to TV. I remember when it was the all in one streaming aggregator.
Meh, I don’t even watch TV anyway
NVidia Shield 2 when?
Apparently Valve might be releasing a shield-like thing. If they do it’s an instant buy for me.
I was expecting them to release one with the Switch 2 but haven’t heard anything yet unfortunately.
Not to say that the Shield 1 isn’t great. It’s still the best streaming device to this date! It’s awesome!
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.
New devices don’t allow that
I got mine three weeks ago from Amazon. How much more new can it get?
Really? Last time I used a Roku device it forced an account.
It appears to be device dependent, some have the initial online setup requirements, even the Community Forum on Roku’s site tells a poster they will need to setup with the internet connection and then can disconnect after setting it up.
Last post in this thread with a response by a former moderator.
You will need an internet connection and a Roku account to activate your Roku TV.
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Once the activation is complete, you can disconnect from the internet and continue to use your TV
Glad I never set up the smart features on my roku TV.
HTPC+PiHole 👍👍
Also if you’re cool 🏴☠️
Roku is terrible anyways. They can’t even accurately reproduce the colors.
