Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen

candyman337@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Roku will do this on their boxes too.

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  • candyman337@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah I don’t get roku boxes lol. I have an nvidia shield pro, and I’m considering loading the lineageOS software on it

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    • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I got the shield too, it’s amazing. Upgraded from an old Chromecast and it’s night and day, didn’t realize how slow the Chromecast was, even on Ethernet.

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      • candyman337@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        oh man, hard agree, the shield is the kind of android boxes

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  • AvailableFill74@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Roku devices and fire sticks belong in the recycle bin.

    I switched everything to Apple TV .

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    • candyman337@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m not into the apple walled garden, I use android boxes

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• MetalMachine@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Any good recommendations?

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  • candyman337@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Onn 4k box or Nvidia shield

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    • _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Onn is just Walmart Roku, they will absolutely slather it in ads as soon as they figure out how. +1 on Nvidia shield.

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      • candyman337@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You can boot lineage os’s android TV version easily on the onn one

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• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I was seeing the Moana promo with my Roku streaming stick on a Samsung TV. Didn’t look like an ad exactly tho, just a nice ocean background.

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  • candyman337@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    personally I prefer android streaming boxes, because you can install custom versions of android tv on them, so if the official release from google is bad, you can just go to the community version

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    • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That general principle makes me confident that opensource community-driven software will eventually replace corporateware. As long as people get equivalent features they’ll eventually gravitate toward the alternative that has no opportunistic agenda.

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    • Gestrid@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There any custom versions you can point me to? I’ve been looking for a custom Android OS to install on my Insignia Fire TV.

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      • candyman337@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        wiki.lineageos.org/devices/

        lineageOS, but you have to have a supported device, and I’m not seeing that device on there. Plus fire tv’s are pretty locked down. I would suggest walmarts onn 4k box or an nvidia shield

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