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It's time to dump Roku (www.engadget.com)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/television@piefed.social
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[–] 68 points 4 months ago (29 children)

If you feel similarly grossed out by the Fox acquisition, I'd recommend you make similar moves. Instead of a Roku Stick, you could use the Google TV Streamer or Apple TV 4K, both of which offer more modern interfaces than Roku's.

Oh yes, the exemplar of stealing your data and the biggest walled garden in tech are far superior choices!

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  • [–] 22 points 4 months ago (20 children)

    Maybe I'm confused, but those are pretty much the only choices?? Oh wait throw amazon in there too I guess lmao

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  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago (12 children)

    There are always options.

    Plug a laptop into your TV via HDMI and buy a cheap Bluetooth keyboard. Install ublock origin. Sail on over to a certain community on Db0 for some advice on free streaming services.

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

    For most people, that's work, not an "option" per se. Also, most people run win11 and we can all agree that's a horrendous option on a tv

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago* (5 children)

    Most people are not dealing with that. Making a laptop work as well as a dedicated remote first device is a pain in the ass for most people. People want panel and remote based ui's first.

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

    It takes such a minimal amount of effort nowadays to set up a barebones pi or laptop with Linux , hook to TV and just watch in web browser or use a graphical frontend like kodi. Theres millions of sources for doing all of this.

    Oh well , my coworkers can complain to me about $250 monthly cable bills. I'll just smile.

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

    I know what you're saying but there's dozens of people at just my company making $100k plus and they need to go to the phone store to set up a new email address. Like these people don't know how to make a pivot table in excel and they have no interest in learning it.

    Most humans just don't have much intellectual curiosity they just want to get paid and spend money.

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

    There's always Vero (https://osmc.tv/vero/). Basically customized Kodi (OSMC) already installed on hardware for them; they can just unbox and hook up to the T. V.

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

    This is exactly what I do almost to a T, but I use an Atari VCS (not the original 🙃) and a Logitech wireless KB. Or my phone through KDE connect.

    It works just fine, SO likes it. If people would try, but theyre lazier than they have ever been, and dumb. It really was not that long ago that an HTPC was somewhat common.

    People only know what big tech feeds them.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Until roku starts shitting the bed it is the least worst choice for those that want ready to go streaming sticks or TVs. I will continue using my roku sticks until they force ads. I already turned off all the home ads and suggestions except the one for roklue or whatever I couldn't find a setting for.

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

    least worst choice

    I have Roku because they haven't died yet but AppleTV is a better choice. It's a Roku without the ads.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    Does apple tv have a streaming stick?

    I couldn't find one and couldn't tell if the box had some easy way to mount it to the wall behind the tv.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    My personal choice has been the “walled garden.” And as “walled in” as it is, it streams Jellyfin just fine.

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

    Can you put jellyfin on a USB/HDMI stick?

    I like the form factor.

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

    Agreed

    Nay better open source options for this, or should I just get a raspberry pie with a jellyfin client?

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    Yeah that works well. There is also Kodi, which is an excellent and deep FOSS project for HTPCs. It has native jellyfin clients from the jellyfin devs if you want to go all in on jellyfin, but also has its own interface as well for other apps like ad free YouTube/etc.

    For an OS, I'd recommend "libreelec," which is just a Linux distro that boots immediately into kodi.

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