we live in hell

I don’t even understand the pitch? you have the disc playing, in your hands, your ownership, no buffering, no subscription required. and they’re saying…hey do you want a worse experience?

    • linkinkampf19@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      11 months ago

      The amount of Roku stuff my PiHole blocks is asinine. I just recently added a blocklist for smart TVs and it ballooned the query counts like mad.

      +1 for PiHole. Worth the ~$40 for the Pi Zero W and accessories alone.

      • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        11 months ago

        That’s because they retry failed connections until they can phone home again. They aren’t normally making tens of thousands of requests.

      • LazaroFilm@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        11 months ago

        I fucking hate my Roku Tv. One of my roku TV became unusable after software update. Can’t be rolled back. I’m just stuck with a perfectly fine screen and shit software. And yes even connecting another device via HDMI is an issue because the TV restarts randomly for “updates” while watching external sources.

        • Albbi@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          Hrm, that’s a pretty good argument for buying a tv and leaving the built in smart features without internet access. Sorry about your issues.

          I’d there no way to factory reset it?

    • RandomPancake@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      You can, but don’t forget to also block other outbound DNS connections in your firewall. Lots of “smart” devices are hard coded to use 8.8.8.8 regardless of what DHCP says. Pihole won’t stop those, so you have to block it at the firewall.