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Roku’s Ultimatum: Surrender Jury Trial Rights or Lose Access to Your TVs (programming.dev)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Smart TV's are stupid scams. I quit watching the big screens in 2018. My phone is larger, at the distance I am comfortable laying down, than the 72in screen on the wall in front of me right now in my family's living room. In the USA, without LUFS regulations, I'm not interested in watching any content embedded in corporate media advertising streams. (Tom Scott LUFS YT, Wikipedia: LUFS)

[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago

Mate, the eye strain of staring at a screen 5" from your face is monumentally higher than being able to relax your vision while staring at a monster screen.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

YT

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Some of us like to watch with other people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Well some of us got no other people, so ha! /s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Been there. It sucks. Best of luck finding your crowd.