Users are unimpressed, eager to toss devices if test sticks.
  • brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    21 days ago

    I have a Roku ultra in my kid’s room.

    I do not want her subjected to ads when she turns on the TV.

    This is unacceptable to me and I will be replacing all my Rokus immediately.

    • melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      21 days ago

      pirate, or you’ll just be doing the same fucking thing again in two years.

      good news: pi’s can do everything a roku does, plus any you install of: retro gaming, libreoffice, web browsing, shit tons of educational software, IDE’s, and teaching her computers.

      • brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        21 days ago

        I have a 200+TB library for my Plex and jellyfin instances. The Roku was just a family friendly launcher and remote. I bought them when you could still disable ads in the secret menus and most of the Roku BS is blocked by a pair of piholes, but I’ve gotten annoyed chasing new urls to blacklist.

        It’s DRM for the other app bullshit that becomes a hindrance for going the Kodi route. There really isn’t a good alternative that I’ve found. Linux boxes will limit some services to 720p and jt’s mostly baseball and local news programs that I’ll lose.

        For the news, I need to look at something like hdhomerun or something else I can pair with an OTA antenna.

        For baseball, not much other than the absolute mess that live streaming sports is. Doable, sure. But a pita and sketchy last I looked into it. My season ticket comes with MLB.tv, but the irony is that I’m “in network” so all my teams games are blacked out for me. I had previously created a VPN tunnel and routed one of my Rokus to a different state to watch it. But it’s not a user friendly experience.

        For games, I already have a batocera box running on an old dell thin client with way more power than a pi, and it has Kodi on it. But the UI/UX still sucks.

  • JIMMERZ@lemm.eeEnglish
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    20 days ago

    Watching Roku steadily decline from a trusted brand has been something. For a time, they were the alternative to the other bigger more Ad driven companies. I’ve owned 2 and used to enjoy them overall. Now, they’ve slowly become just as bad or worse than their competitors in some regards. When history looks back on streaming boxes as a failed delivery method, Roku might just get to be the example in the forefront.