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It's time to dump Roku (www.engadget.com)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 25 points 4 months ago (11 children)

I mean, the Apple TV is doing significantly less sketchy shit, selling your data, and spying on you.

It also doesn’t have Home Screen ads and ads stuffed everywhere.

Of the options, regardless of how you feel about Apple, it’s the only viable commercial tv box.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    The creepiest thing mine has done is have the Peanuts cartoon screensavers be relevant to the weather in my area. Seeing Snoopy and Woodstock get blown around on a windy day is oddly nice haha

    I don't actually know its happening, I might just be more aware of the windy cartoons or rainy cartoons when I'm actually experiencing that weather 🤷‍♂️

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    When you first set it up you sign into your iCloud, which has your home address right? And in think it asks for zip code during setup also. It’s definitely happening, and I love it. Snow is the best.

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  • [–] -2 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    It's cutesy until it's not. Anybody who has long-term experience in recommending any brand will tell you that the brand will eventually decide they don't need to be outstanding in any category.

    Apple just started pushing ads in its maps app, which was supposed to be the better alternative to Google Maps.

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

    Right.. but the discussion is specifically about how Apple is pretty much the only consumer friendly TV device available right now. Hopefully a new, better one comes along but to your point, that one will eventually be shit too soooo idk whats the point its all going to burn

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

    I hooked a PC up to my device. You'd be surprised how consumer-friendly it is. I didn't even need to beg Tim Cook to run my favorite programs on it.

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

    I want to try this for sure, but was that an out of the box solution?

    I have a PC but it can’t use HDMI CEC correctly, so I would have to buy an adapter, then buy a special remote, configure that, then figure out how I want my boot storage encrypted or not.

    What’s the app/service situation like?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    It basically is for me, but then again I am personally plenty happy to use a normal keyboard and normal (trackball) mouse, both wireless, to control a desktop OS with slightly bumped-up display scaling. I know there are alternatives for media browsing but I prefer the desktop levels of flexibility at all times

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    That's a great solution. It think we were talking more about people that don't even use PCs. Older people like grandparents or other tech illiterate that maybe use a tablet at most.

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