Users are unimpressed, eager to toss devices if test sticks.

Users are unimpressed, eager to toss devices if test sticks.

  • FauxLiving@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    8 hours ago

    They’re not “smart” TVs. They’re TVs with shitty android spyware boxes attached.

    Stop using that garbage. Don’t connect it to a network, just use it as a display.

    If you need to watch YouTube on your TV go and grab an OSMC (Kodi-based OS for media boxes) media box. You can get a pre-built one for around $100, or install it yourself on a raspberry pi.

    These manufacturers depend on you being lazy and accepting their spyware. You will save yourself so much more headache in the long run if you control your own hardware and software.

    Trying to navigate through the world without some minimal knowledge of computers means you’re going to get taken by every scam like what Roku is pulling.

      • FauxLiving@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        7 hours ago

        Yeah, every product that they sell will do it.

        Using something like OSMC (or buying a Vero is you don’t want to mess around with the setup) will let you control what runs on your player.

        Until you do that, you’re paying some random company while also giving root access on a device in your house and letting them waste your time with ads.

        All you get out of the deal is avoiding having to learn how to use a new piece of software. A Pyrrhic victory due to the fact that you have to learn to use Roku.

        I’d rather spend a few hours learning how to setup Kodi. It’s free software, you don’t pay for it and it’s Free software, you control it with no strings attached.