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Lol this thing will age as well all those dedicated remote buttons for services like Pandora or Crackle.
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They can just replace the scroll lock key
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Oi, that has uses! Take the pause/break instead.
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I HATE ROKU I HATE ROKU I HATE ROKU
I was forced to use one for the first time a week ago and it was like all of the negatives of a chromecast with none of the positives.
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Want me to throw a brick at their offices? I pass by it regularly.
The ENTIRE building is glass.
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Film yourself doing it and I'll give you at least 5 marseycoins
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I dunno if I film myself doing it realistically. Local cops park 2-5 patrol cars out front of it at night, and theres not enough hobos nearby to pay to do it because again the local cops cluster in front of it at night.
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They made dumb tv's into smart tv's. Might have been the drive to make smart tv's the standard.
For this, I hate them too.
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I HATE SMART TVS I HATE SMART TVS I HATE SMART TVS
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Same. Would've loved to save 50 bucks to buy a tv with less likeliness to break down and that my game consoles will turn into a smart tv anyways.
Try buying a "dumb" tv, they're so overpriced and sold almost exclusively to hotels these days
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A dumb TV will generally cost more. The "smart" features cost less than the company gains from ads/data/commissions surrounding the smart features.
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Yep, a smart TV is essentially subsidized by all that bullshit and prints money every day.
The dumb one makes them no money after initial sale, so they have price it higher to compensate.
Still, I'll take the take dumb one.
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I got my last 3 tvs from ebay for exactly this reason
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I like my garbage tier smart TV because I can load APKs on it and watch all my shit for free
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roku just works, unlike your "recompile the kernel to add a new service" rpi streaming box
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I don't have one of those either. Just a chromecast for streamslop and a 25' hdmi cable I can plug into my laptop for everything else. My TV is older than some users of this site but it's large, 720p, and somehow has HDCP support so I'm keeping it until it dies.
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Roku is shit. Amazon firesticks are great and you can install Kodi and Plex on them.
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Pretty certain Roku has a Plex app. I don't have one but I have multiple friends who do.
I have an NVidia Shield which just runs Android TV. I would have used the smart TV features but the integrated processor is so weak it can't properly decode high-bitrate 4k video (on a high-end 4k TV) so I needed to buy this other thing which has a far more capable processor in it.
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I just built a small PC for my TV for streaming and other shit, it works great.
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I tried that before, it's just not nearly as seamless as something designed explicitly to run a TV. It even had one of those weird remotes with a physical keyboard (small) and a tiny little trackpad to control the mouse. But again it sucks compared to something designed to be used from a dedicated remote.
Browsing the android TV version of Plex on my TV is a better experience than browsing the PC version of Plex on my TV.
Realistically I don't care about the ads and shit bc I never look at them. I remapped the "Netflix" button on my remote to open up Plex, and if I ever turn my TV on and it's not already on Plex, I press that one button and it launches. Maybe I see an ad for a split second but I really don't care that much.
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I run Kodi on the PC and control everything with an xbox x controller. If not using Kodi I have this little app from steam called "controller companion" running in the background and you can control all of win 10 using the same xbox controller. It's mint.
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Boomer and/or poor apple user shit
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my Roku remote has a Blockbuster button
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Id love to flatten a neighborhood with the press of one button while lounging around on the couch
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I still use Pandora
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I love that remote and the little box it's connected to!
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Not meant for you. Simply a genius marketing strategy. Borderline art. Almost makes me tear up.
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Lmao I got a few of those laying around. Switched to a different streaming stick before they became obsolete. I'm wondering what they do now?
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Or the bixby button on samsungs
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Ironically that's a much better analogy which has a Microsoft parallel: Cortana. Same shit, different decade.
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Crackle was Sony's streaming service. It actually still exists, but they sold it to the company that publishes the Chicken Soup for the Soul books. Yes, really.
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Man sony is dumpster fire
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Pretty sure I watched a Christian Slater tv series on crakle
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