- ryan_@piefed.socialEnglish11 days
Instead of a Roku Stick, you could use the Google TV Streamer or Apple TV 4K…………Amazon’s Fire devices are also an option, but I figure anyone with moral qualms against Fox may have similar issues with anything tied to Jeff Bezos.
I got a kick out of the article recommending Google and Apple like they’re the ethical option against Amazon here. Any sane person with moral qualms against Bezos will have plenty about Google and Apple too, so let’s not pretend that any of them are anything less than evil.
- malios@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
What suggestions do you have for simple media players that techy people could recommend to their families? It seems like for the most part we’re limited to Android-based devices or the Apple TV.
10 daysIt’s not there yet. But I’m hoping KDE plasma big screen continues to receive love. If it gets into mainstream distributions. It will likely be big. It’s a much more smart TV like shell for the KDE desktop. All the familiarity of your Google TV, Apple tv, fire stick, Roku etc. But none of the advertisements or lockdown. With waydroid it should even be able to run most of your Android applications as well as all the native Linux and KDE applications. But again this is something to watch for. Not quite ready for deployment yet.
It absolutely would be. I’m watching it with great interest. The thought of having a Raspberry Pi and old E-Waste business PC or a cheap n100 or 150 system at the television. Running Games movies everything. It’s very attractive.
- Cocodapuf@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
That time was long ago. The writing was on the wall as soon as they put a giant perpetual ad on the home screen.
Here’s the worst part, there are no parental controls on the home screen, so if I’m trying to get my kid to Disney+, while it loads we’re staring at some ad for a horror flick. Great job Roku…
Honestly, the parental controls on the Roku are non-existent and it’s definitely on purpose, really pisses me off.
- 10 days
The Fox acquisition was the last straw for me too. I’ve watched Roku go from a user-friendly streaming device to a front end for an advertising company. A couple of years ago it became so irritating it finally pushed me to implement an Adguard Home DNS sinkhole after years of thinking it wasn’t worth the trouble. Roku has also made it difficult to block ads, big gaps are shown in the UI when you do, and some apps can’t be updated without disabling Adguard and downloading a bunch of Roku’s ads too.
Yesterday I bought an Onn streaming box (Android TV) and it’s like going from a abacus to a computer. After a couple of hours configuring, loading a new launcher, and using ADB to debloat I’ve got an ad-free, clean interface with much of Google’s tracking disabled (at least as much as possible). Even better, some things (like the remote’s volume control) work that never worked with Roku.
It was such a breath of fresh air I just ordered a couple more ($15 for the 2k model right now) and will have completely dumped Roku by the end of the week.
It’s been a long time coming.
A raspberry pi 4 running libreELEC (which runs Kodi) is a much better investment if you’re looking to stay away from evil corpos.
There’s a really nice subreddit (which also has a Lemmy community) to teach you how to get content for it.
- stringere@sh.itjust.worksEnglish9 days
There’s a really nice subreddit (which also has a Lemmy community) to teach you how to get content for it.
If someone wanted to build the streamomg box you mentioned: it would be helpful to provide the names of those communities.
Yaarrr just going to have to find it on your own. It’s kinda a black spot for most communities to link there. My friend Davy Jones got in trouble for it once, the rules sailed right over his head. Now I need to go drink some High C.
