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If you feel similarly grossed out by the Fox acquisition, I’d recommend you make similar moves. Instead of a Roku Stick, you could use the Google TV Streamer or Apple TV 4K, both of which offer more modern interfaces than Roku’s.
Oh yes, the exemplar of stealing your data and the biggest walled garden in tech are far superior choices!
My personal choice has been the “walled garden.” And as “walled in” as it is, it streams Jellyfin just fine.
Can you put jellyfin on a USB/HDMI stick?
I like the form factor.
Jellyfin client needs to run on an OS. I use a raspi 5 as the local PC, then libreelec, to run the jellyfin for kodi client. It works flawlessly.
I have no idea. But to be wife-approved it’s got to be navigable from the couch, and a ISB stock doesn’t sound like it would be.
Agreed
Nay better open source options for this, or should I just get a raspberry pie with a jellyfin client?
Yeah that works well. There is also Kodi, which is an excellent and deep FOSS project for HTPCs. It has native jellyfin clients from the jellyfin devs if you want to go all in on jellyfin, but also has its own interface as well for other apps like ad free YouTube/etc.
For an OS, I’d recommend “libreelec,” which is just a Linux distro that boots immediately into kodi.
The better option is under development. Plasma Bigscreen is to be part of the next KDE release
And Switchfin is a TV friendly Jellyfin client for Linux
https://flathub.org/en/apps/fun.dragonfly.switchfin
Edit: Plasma Bigscreen has just been released
I was ready to discount this as pearl clutching but after reading it, I’m of the same mindset.
It’s long been time to dump Roku. This is just the last few nails in the coffin.
What do I do if I already have roku and it’s the only thing I have?
Factory reset and never connect it to the internet.
Edit: That’s if you want to keep it a dumb tv. I know there are likely OS alternatives if you want to bother, but I ended up just resetting mine and keeping it connected to my mini-pc.
They’re great for screen casting. Reset and no more internet. Just screen mirror your phone playing apps that don’t have ads.
Just steal the content and get a good android TV with Plex or jellyfin if you hate yourself.
I’m going to turn off network access on my two Roku TVs (which will keep them from monetizing my attention). For those sets, I’m going to pick up a used Apple TV 4K and dig up my older 1080p Apple TV.
From frying pan to fire in one easy step.
They bought tubi too which is a damn shame.
they owned a part of roku at that time, and were forced to sell that to buy tubi.
What’s a good alternative? I’m fine installing alternative OS and was looking at some lineageOS TV stuff but seeing mixed reports on whether you can get full quality on streaming services that way
Torrenting. The reddit piracy megathread is quite good.
Just connect a raspberry pi or a mini PC to your TV; you can steam Netflix/Hulu/etc from web browsers. Get yourself a wireless keyboard with a track pad to control it.
The raspberry pi supports cec, you can control it with the remote.
That’s just an example link from eBay, not recommending that item or seller specifically. But you can get them that run off a USB dongle, or Bluetooth. They’re absolutely fantastic.
I factory reset the Roku TVs and replaced the set top units with Google Streamers and Nvidia Shields.
now that FOX news corp(not disney fox) will likely use roku to peddle scams and right wing propaganda, you should throw it away.
i’ve never even known what Roku is
its basically “low cost tv” subsidized by constant ads.
It’s what people say when they sneeze
It’s the Japanese word for 6
Who are they kidding? It’s been years since they started scanning everything you were watching to inject ads into it. If people were happy with that, they’re happy with this.
I don’t have the skills, but I’d love to see some clean room design be done on roku.
Fuck em.
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