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.

  • SeaJ@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    I have always opposed smart TVs. Most of my reasoning is because the UI is almost always dogshit slow because the hardware and software is thrown in as an afterthought. But I’ll add this to my reasoning for not getting a smart TV.

    A signage TV with a streaming stick/box is perfectly fine for what I need. Jellyfin does not care what I’m playing.

    Edit: Also, I did not even notice that there was no option to reject this. It is just a close button. There is no way this shit is enforceable.

    • BothsidesistFraud@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      I haven’t looked into it, but there’s got to be some open source firmware for a lot of these TVs, right? To improve the UI and remove all spyware and bloatware?