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  • LucidNightmare@anarchist.nexustoTechnology@lemmy.zip•Your Antenna TV Shouldn’t Need the Internet — But Roku Made It SoEnglish
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    28 days ago

    Oh man. Let me tell you about what I saw from the Roku I got back in 2020 or so.

    I got a pihole before or shortly after my Roku. The PiHole showed my most blocked device being… the Roku. Almost over 4000 DNS requests denied, especially after I fully blocked them on the PiHole because I got tired of their ads being shown when all I’m turning the damn thing on for is Plex/Jellyfin.

    They don’t like that one bit! Get this, for the time to be accurate, it MUST have connection to their servers. Not just once, mind you. Every day I leave my house, I turn off things, the Roku being one of them. I turn it off by turning off the extension it is plugged into. Every time I turned it back on, it would just show the time you cut it off at. So, if it was 8 AM when you turned it off, and it is now 9 PM, well, the clock on the Roku would still be around 8 AM.

    So, yeah. Now, I just use my Steam Deck as my watching device, hooked up to the dock. Added benefit of not having to “sideload” (read install) a YouTube IPA onto my phone. Fuckers.