Did your Roku TV decide to strong arm you into giving up your rights or lose your FULLY FUNCTIONING WORKING TV? Because mine did.

It doesn’t matter if you only use it as a dumb panel for an Apple TV, Fire stick, or just to play your gaming console. You either agree or get bent.

  • @[email protected]
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    59 months ago

    At this point if you still have your television hooked up to the internet you deserve whatever these companies do to you. The TV would work just fine if you’d never told it about your wifi.

    • @[email protected]
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      189 months ago

      Yes, let’s blame the users for having a shitty product. I’m not going to build a whole setup just so my wife could watch Netflix. Not to mention putting her through the troubles of having learn a new more convoluted way to do the same thing, and then I have to get a lecture on why I shouldn’t spend money on needless tech thingoes that make her live complicated. What’s your suggestion, get a new wife?

      How about you show some compassion for OP. You don’t know his situation. Maybe he has a wife a home who will wring his neck if he doesn’t keep the TV connected. It’s not OPs fault Roku is a POS company, blame Roku not OP.

      • @[email protected]
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        39 months ago

        Compassion is definitely needed here the user shouldn’t be blamed.

        But it is also true that essentially every smart TV is garbage. Never connect them to the internet or use their built in software. Something like an Apple TV will be faster, provide a better experience and be easier to use than any smart TV. Same with something like the nVidia Shield.

      • @[email protected]
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        19 months ago

        I just have too high an opinion of people to expect them not to be able to learn how to use a Chromecast or home theater PC. I’m not gonna assume that some guy’s wife is so tech illiterate that she can’t figure out how to do anything more complex than four arrows, an ok button, and a back button. If someone wants their TV connected to the internet that’s fine, but when you hinge all your media consumption entirely on one company, you must realize that that company now has control over your media consumption. It’s fine to complain when they change the deal, but it’s to be expected.

    • @Gimpydude
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      39 months ago

      A lot of TVs these days won’t start working without wifi. I set up a temporary ssid, set up the TV then delete it.

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        9 months ago

        Hooking it up once is one thing, but actively using the Internet connectivity is just begging these companies to screw you over. That being said, I’d sooner bring it back to the store and get a different one than let it phone home even once.

    • @[email protected]
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      19 months ago

      never blame the powerless when the one with all the power is calling the shots

      doing so is called victim blaming and is generally frowned upon

      • @[email protected]
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        19 months ago

        You have the power to not use their services. The people with power are the government, the police, and billionaires. You can’t choose not to live in capitalism. You can choose to use something other than Roku.