Exactly this. It’s a really good box for the price that gives your living room monitor superpowers, but no one should buy a monitor with that extra bullshit built in!
Comment on Your Antenna TV Shouldn’t Need the Internet — But Roku Made It So
theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
laughs in my Roku being firewalled off from the internet
I don’t get or need software updates when I only watch Jellyfin anyway
_stranger_@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I’ll take just a screen only, hold the superpowers. Unfortunately you can’t buy that anymore, or at least not at a reasonable price.
_stranger_@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
sadly true.
1hitsong@lemmy.ml 15 hours ago
🤘
confusedwiseman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
Mine was never ever connected to the internet. HDMI is all I needed and wanted. What evil they’re doing now is making you connect it to the internet on first boot.
I’d bet the next step is that it has to be able to phone home at increasingly frequent intervals to allow functionality such as playing content from connected ports.
This is brought to you by the same company that’s developed technology to detect if an hdmi connection is paused so that it can be interrupted to inject ads…
LucidNightmare@anarchist.nexus 7 hours ago
Oh man. Let me tell you about what I saw from the Roku I got back in 2020 or so.
I got a pihole before or shortly after my Roku. The PiHole showed my most blocked device being.. the Roku. Almost over 4000 DNS requests denied, especially after I fully blocked them on the PiHole because I got tired of their ads being shown when all I’m turning the damn thing on for is Plex/Jellyfin.
They don’t like that one bit! Get this, for the time to be accurate, it MUST have connection to their servers. Not just once, mind you. Every day I leave my house, I turn off things, the Roku being one of them. I turn it off by turning off the extension it is plugged into. Every time I turned it back on, it would just show the time you cut it off at. So, if it was 8 AM when you turned it off, and it is now 9 PM, well, the clock on the Roku would still be around 8 AM.
So, yeah. Now, I just use my Steam Deck as my watching device, hooked up to the dock. Added benefit of not having to “sideload” (read install) a YouTube IPA onto my phone. Fuckers.
theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Stallman was right.