we live in hell

I don't even understand the pitch? you have the disc playing, in your hands, your ownership, no buffering, no subscription required. and they're saying....hey do you want a worse experience?

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[–] 42 points 2 years ago (28 children)

The little asterisk symbol on the screen is leading me to believe it's a Roku.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (27 children)

    I have two roku tvs. The day I see this is the day they get disconnected.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (19 children)

    You can probably use a pi-hole to block those things.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    The amount of Roku stuff my PiHole blocks is asinine. I just recently added a blocklist for smart TVs and it ballooned the query counts like mad.

    +1 for PiHole. Worth the ~$40 for the Pi Zero W and accessories alone.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I fucking hate my Roku Tv. One of my roku TV became unusable after software update. Can’t be rolled back. I’m just stuck with a perfectly fine screen and shit software. And yes even connecting another device via HDMI is an issue because the TV restarts randomly for “updates” while watching external sources.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Hrm, that's a pretty good argument for buying a tv and leaving the built in smart features without internet access. Sorry about your issues.

    I'd there no way to factory reset it?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You can, but don't forget to also block other outbound DNS connections in your firewall. Lots of "smart" devices are hard coded to use 8.8.8.8 regardless of what DHCP says. Pihole won't stop those, so you have to block it at the firewall.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    No, you can’t. I’m running pihole and have a TCL Roku tv connected via HDMI to an Apple TV, and the ROKU APP RECOGNIZES CONTENT FROM IT and makes the suggestion, overlaying it OVER THE HDMI STREAM.

    It’s the worst

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    You can actually turn that off in the Roku settings. I did when I saw it demanding I watch my content from my PC on their shitty ad bloated sponsors.

    I am now realizing it might be more work than it's worth for Roku even though I used to prefer their systems being a bit more stable.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    I guarantee you someone paid Roku to do this

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I have an old Roku Express or something similar and love it. It has an RF remote and a very responsive UI. But it is slowly becoming crappier with the infrequent updates.

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