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Yo ho, yo ho,a
[The rest of this comment has been removed per a DMCA take down request. Piracy makes The Mouse mad.]Could someone out there possibly DM me a place to go for taking a small boat out on the water? I used to sail when I was younger, but now the waves take a real toll on my older body. I just don’t know the calmer waters these days. Climate change.
now that FOX news corp(not disney fox) will likely use roku to peddle scams and right wing propaganda, you should throw it away.
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
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.
Just steal the content and get a good android TV with Plex or jellyfin if you hate yourself.
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Which of those three things do you do if you hate yourself?
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.
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
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.
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”
Plex
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Jellyfin. Absolute dumpster fire with any remote. I honestly can’t believe they have made a remote friendly UI.
Yes
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.
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.
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.
They’re great for screen casting. Reset and no more internet. Just screen mirror your phone playing apps that don’t have ads.
And what about Roku devices that aren’t TVs?
Pi-hole all the domains not required for content streaming
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 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.
The epitome of capitalism. Cancer sucks everything.
I don’t have the skills, but I’d love to see some clean room design be done on roku.
Fuck em.
I only use my Roku for rifftrax. I wish those guys would make one for Android TV.
I did find their channel on YouTube and Pluto TV. if you can install Kodi, I’d look into the unofficial Pluto TV addon
E: or the Pluto app?They have another app for streaming that has newer riffs behind a subscription. I started paying for it as reparations for getting riffs from places other than the website, but now it’s become my wife and I’s go to chill time. Last I saw it was only available on Roku or Fire TV. Hopefully I can install it on Plasma TV whenever that drops.
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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.
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?
Sorry for the delay, but yeah, 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.
Oh! So it turns out that I do know that HDR10+ doesn’t work.
I had trouble getting season 2 of Fallout to play and only just noticed that it was HDR10+. Downmixing the audio to stereo let it play fine, I assume that may have forced a transcode to a lower HDR spec. It didn’t look as flattened as it would if it were converted to SDR.
Also, the Shield isn’t listed anywhere as supported hardware for HDR10+, even before degoogling. That may change if it’s just a licensing thing. So FAR, I’ve only had one thing not play for me as expected, so I don’t currently feel like I’m missing out on anything.
Also haven’t tried any AI upscaling. Decent bitrate 720 is watchable enough for me, and I try to limit my exposure to anything marketed as AI anyway.
If those couple of things are dealbreakers, you could maybe go down the debloating path instead of a different ROM? If I get another Shield for my other TV, I might try that first and compare my experiences between the two.
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.
