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Roku OS’s home screen now features a large, permanent ad (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 21 points 3 months ago (13 children)

People love to hate Apple, and that's fine (Tim Cook sucks ass), but the AppleTV is honestly the best streamer and you can't change my mind.

Zero ads on the Home Screen, and even the first gen 4K box that came out 8 years ago is still fast as hell and getting updates.

I know this because I had one in my closet and just took it out the other day when setting up a TV in my bedroom. It downloaded updates and is now rocking and rolling again.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago

    My family knows me as the anti-apple IT Guy. So, it shocked everyone when I brought home a Best Buy open box Apple TV 4K (saved me $20US).

    Honestly, this is my first Apple purchase since my ipod and I have to admit: it's good.

    Roku has lost their way and my 3 Roku Ultra devices are all dying for reasons unknown (freezing, random reboots, spinning endlessly when trying to open an app). I'm just so done with them (and Nvidia) for my streaming hardware business.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I bought an AppleTV device and it is by far the best out of the box TV product I’ve purchased. It’s pricey but I highly recommend it if you don’t want to self host.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    They are certainly more expensive, but it's a "buy once cry once" type of thing. You pay a little more but the box works SO MUCH better and for longer than the cheap junk that'll show you a bunch of ads.

    I have two of them at this point and zero regrets.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    I'll see you walled garden bullshit and raise your an nvidia shield. I think I Stoll got till September before I'm in the sane boat.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    I know it's not for everyone but fuck nvdia too, I build a pc next to my tv it's everything and then some.

    Again, I know it's not for everyone.

    My other tv's just have onn 4k seems non enschitified yet.... And is dirt cheap

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    I wonder how much of the anti-apple stuff comes from the extremity of the person's views. I have always preferred PC/windows due to familiarity with it, but I've used iphones for 12 or 13 years, and by extension, some of apple's services (like icloud). They've been pretty great this whole time. And, as a normie, I've been happy with what I've heard and seen about their stability, general lack of ads, and security/protection of customer data. I doubt there's many others on the Fediverse with similar views due to the nature of this place, but anyway, the point I'm trying to make is that it seems like some of the dissent toward apple is inherent to their position relative to the opinion holder.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I definitely think it's "linux brain" that exists around here to a degree. You can see it on any given thread that talks about...well...anything technical. "Just download Linux!" they'll say. And I say this as someone who LIKES Linux. I have it on two of my pcs (and I have a Mac and iPhone/iPad, etc. as well). It's great. But there's a zealotry around here around it.

    That said, it's not hard to dislike Apple right now. I'm pretty mad at them for cozying up to trump all the time. I'm glad Cook will not be leading Apple soon (though I wish he'd just leave outright. He'll still be at the company). But it's hard to deny the hardware is great and the software is generally good and generally works well.

    But Lemmy is certainly a niche population of nerds. And that's fine! It's great! But a lot of those nerds seem to love the "console wars"-type mentality of "MY thing is the best and anything else is bad."

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I really appreciate your response and I agree completely. Linux seems awesome (I've played with Mint a little bit, and have heard a lot about Bazzite and Kinoite, and I do plan on moving over when I have the time/energy/motivation. It does seem significantly better than the commercial offerings once one gets past the (often exaggerated) learning curve.

    Would you mind expanding on the Apple stuff? I haven't looked into them as a company since they told the courts to fuck off during the Snowden trial or something like that. I'm realizing that I'm not an Apple fanboy, but I also don't have the data pool to really form an opinion one way or another.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    I grew up an apple fanboy but in my early twenties I realized I couldn't afford to stay one. Since the iPhone came out they've gotten more and more closed off and hard to modify. The last straw for me was realizing you couldn't install older versions of software (someone gave me a 1st or 2nd Gen iPad) and I couldn't even put an older version of home assistant on it. That really showed me how hard they push for "you must buy the newest thing" because they'll deliberately break the old one

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