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[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 4 points 6 hours ago

Roku box: Bye, bitch!

[-] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 6 points 8 hours ago

Aaargh matey!

[-] Veneroso@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

So this is the Moana garbage?

I have a pihole blocking most of it, but these were playing.

There's surely a way to jailbreak these things.

[-] brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 12 hours 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.com 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours 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.com 2 points 6 hours 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.

[-] dryfter@lemm.ee 1 points 5 hours ago

I just got an HDHomeRun that I use with an antenna and love it. I use Mac and they are one of the only boxes that works on Mac.

They don’t have a native Linux client, but you can use VLC supposedly: https://info.hdhomerun.com/info/linux

mostly seems like you've tested stuff and got your shit together.

but the 720p limit is surprising to me. any idea why this happens?

[-] MetalMachine@feddit.nl 5 points 10 hours ago

Roku is the one that bricked peoples TVs unless they agreed to their new terms of service.

[-] LucidNightmare@lemm.ee 12 points 14 hours ago

Bought a Roku back in 2020 or 2021 because the Apple TV was more expensive.

Now I know why.

For what it is worth, I have Roku set up as a REGEX in my Pi-hole so for the most part, any of this nonsense is completely blocked on my Roku.

Needless to say, I shouldn’t have to do this shit with a device I paid for and mainly use for Plex streaming.

[-] brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 12 hours ago

I know it's being lazy. But if you have the regex you could post, I'd appreciate it.

I had this happen to me just a few days ago. Within the hour I bought an Nvidia shield and came up with a plan to install the projectivy launcher and button remapper.

I'm mostly happy, it's much more snappy but it's missing a couple apps I used on the Roku (WGN and Marquee Sports). At least I can use my own pictures for the background and screensavers.

[-] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 10 points 14 hours ago

Reasons I turn off WiFi on any TV I buy and use a streaming box

[-] MetalMachine@feddit.nl 1 points 10 hours ago
[-] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago

Onn 4k box or Nvidia shield

[-] _stranger_@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Onn is just Walmart Roku, they will absolutely slather it in ads as soon as they figure out how. +1 on Nvidia shield.

[-] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

You can boot lineage os's android TV version easily on the onn one

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[-] MiDaBa@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 hours ago

Think of any invasive streaming devices in your house. Samsung, Google Chromecast, ATV, LG etc. Roku is by far the worst.

[-] fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 hours ago

This was shitty, but the giants are worse than the smaller companies. Roku works fine and ad-free if you block the ad/tracking domains. Try separating the ads/tracking from the stuff you need on a Google device.

[-] modus@lemmy.world 11 points 17 hours ago
[-] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

My friend doesn't understand this reference, could you elaborate, please?

[-] bearboiblake@pawb.social 3 points 13 hours ago

you can get a raspberry pi and install something called pihole on it, it's a DNS server with ad-blocking. basically, it converts a domain name like example.com into an IP address, but rather than just faithfully supply DNS, it also effectively blocks some adverts by acting like the domain names don't exist for servers that run ads

once it's set up it'll just work, and it should protect everyone on your network/wifi from some ads

[-] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Beautiful, I like the sounds of that.

[-] alekwithak@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

Just gonna add that it can also be installed directly to any Linux PC or in a docker container. The raspberry pi isn't necessarily necessary.

[-] modus@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

Install a Pihole server on your network. It's a DNS filter. When a client tries to access a domain that has been blacklisted (ie a known ad or tracker domain), it denies the lookup.

On my roku homescreen it just has an empty placeholder where it tried to put the ad, but my Pihole server denied it.

[-] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Is there risk of a sort of arms race wherein services will update and decline to render services to those who block said blacklisted ad domains, or has that already happened?

[-] modus@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

I can't imagine that happening with today's systems. Yes, it's theoretically possible. It just seems unlikely that they'd go through the trouble of denying service to someone who didn't fetch data from one specific domain but did get it from another.

[-] oyo@lemm.ee 17 points 18 hours ago

If this happens on my box I'll be taking them to small claims court and let you all know how it goes...

[-] Tantheiel@lemmy.world 17 points 18 hours ago

So glad I blocked my TVs access to the Internet at the router level. Never complainrd about not setting up a network if the network doesn't work.

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[-] cultsuperstar@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I think this happened to me last night with an ad for Moana 2 playing automatically. I just assumed I accidentally hit a button. I was on the home screen but it enlarged and played in the basically the top quarter of the screen. I hit Close and it closed.

Also, the Netflix app is absolute garbage on the TCL Roku TVs. Constantly freezes and crashes, sometimes while not even try to rewind or pause/resume. It just decides its had enough and causes the TV to restart lol.

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[-] spaffel@spaffel.social 50 points 22 hours ago

Can i pleace find a decent TV without smart-capabilitys? I just want HDMI thats it

[-] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 22 points 21 hours ago

Don't give your TV wifi access, use a separate device to watch stuff (Chromecast, FireTV, Android box, etc..)

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[-] RedEyeFlightControl@lemmy.world 11 points 19 hours ago

Buy a commercial signage display. It's just a TV without the smart garbage.

Or, get a projector :)

[-] scala@lemmy.ml 11 points 20 hours ago

Technically you can get commercial TVs but many companies stopped selling them. They are literally the new screen tech with no "Smart" capabilities. They are also much cheaper than their smart counterparts.

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