spaghettiwestern @ spaghettiwestern @sh.itjust.works

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This was originally posted from another source as a recent article and I didn't notice the date on this link when I found it. Thanks for pointing it out. Will delete.

Lol! So you're going to punish Roku about their consumer hostile stance with some extra paperwork? That's the ticket!

Very, very few people will even take 10 minutes to open an online AG complaint about a company that is directly harming them by openly breaking the law. You think a comment on Lemmy (or anywhere) is going to make a damn bit of difference to a legal corporate practice that started long before social media existed?

I know a guy who has deal on a really great bridge...

IMO opting out is meaningless.

Despite the fact that attorneys are the primary beneficiaries of class action suits, the settlement dollar amounts are often high enough to give companies like Roku pause before they make consumer hostile changes. Not enough people will jump through Roku's absurd opt-out hoops to make a class action suit worthwhile for attorneys, and thus those lawsuits won't be filed in the first place, removing any risk to Roku no matter what BS they pull. They simply don't give a fuck and don't want that to end up costing them.

Of course the few people who opt-out can sue on their own, but the settlement dollars will be insignificant to a company the size of Roku.

Years ago being beneficial to the community was part of the mission statement of many corporations. That slowly disappeared and companies moved to customer service theater. Now even the pretense of being of benefit to communities and customers is being dropped and companies are regularly openly hostile outside their PR departments. And they wonder why people hate them.

I'm considering connecting up computers to my TVs and just streaming everything from a browser. It will be a little less convenient without a remote (at least initially), but way less annoying.

So the rest of the world should change for your convenience. Got it.

It is always amazing how many people think their own specific situation should be used as the defining standard for the rest of the world.

5 ghz just doesn't get through stucco, concrete or even an inconveniently located furnace very well, nor does it reach nearly as far as a 2.4 ghz signal when only drywall and wooden studs are in the way. It would take 5 AP's at 5ghz to cover the same area as 2 at 2.4 ghz in my environment.

The great thing is that you can disable 2.4 ghz wifi on all your devices and the rest of us can continue to do what works for us.

After reading about Pi-holes for a long time Roku finally pissed me off enough to set one up. The company has been adding advertisements to their menus for years but a few months ago they added a whole new row of ads to their home menu. Of course they can't be disabled. Enough was enough.

I set up Pi-hole on an existing Pi, monitored Roku traffic for a couple of days and blocked every single ad or "suggestion" they generate. Now the TV displays blanks instead of constant barrage of ads that Roku's menu has become. Worth the trouble.

Their decision to become an advertising platform instead of the streaming platform I purchased has been good reason to never subscribe to a streaming channel through Roku again. The company won't get a single dollar of revenue from me if I can help it. Yes, I know 3rd parties do pay Roku subscription fees, but I can't do anything about those. I also have repeatedly recommended Roku devices for years, but I now tell people to avoid the advertising company. Fuck em.

Who said anything about a bot? You're a Russian tool and useful idiot.

Information? You mean пропаганда.

Yup. Nothing like decades of GQP policies allowing companies to create what are essentially monopolies. Merger after merger without government intervention means competition is dying and companies can and do charge whatever they want.

A Lemmy salad with Russian dressing.

There was a guy on here a few months back who created his own sub with "real" news. He shut off comments and posted regular crap like this until he and his community were banned. This looks just like something he would post.

GQP tripe. Biden got 81% of the Democratic vote, while Trump got a dismal 68% of Republican votes, and you claim Biden's being rebuked? I guess that means that Trump's being outright snubbed.

Gee, I wonder what could be causing this?

“There are other factors that contribute to inflation that have not received enough attention. One of those factors is extreme price hikes — in other words, companies raising prices far more than required to offset higher costs even when accounting for shifts in supply and demand, resulting in the highest profit margins we have ever seen in the last 70 years,”

https://thehill.com/business/3756457-corporate-profits-hit-record-high-in-third-quarter-amid-40-year-high-inflation/

I can't imaging having to check the time before going to a fast food joint to avoid "surge pricing." (Fast food prices are already in rip-off territory.)

Couldn't be any easier to avoid though - we'll just cross Wendy's off our list entirely and problem's solved, with absolutely no negative impact on us.

Weirder you say you've seen it everywhere. Mainstream media - NYT, NBC, CNN and WA Post have no mention of it.

Docker can be really confusing, but IMO being able to add and remove software without having changes made throughout your system is well worth the effort.

Can you imagine the wall to wall coverage had it been Biden who called his wife by the wrong name? It would go on for weeks.

Because it's Trump they'll be nary a peep about this from the "liberal" media.

Edit: Confirmed this morning - not a word about Trump's demented rambling on the front pages of CNN, NBC, NYT or WA Post. The GQP front-runner's inability to string a coherent sentence together or remember his wife's name should be front page news. If Biden tripped over a mic stand it would be.

I am in the process of adding a couple security cameras and have been amazed that the majority of consumer brands essentially claim ownership of their customer's video content. They block access outside of their apps, charge for access and control of that video, and then fail to secure the video content they've claimed. It's another case of buying not equal owning.

Wyse, Eufy, Ring and Next have all had breaches of various kinds. Wyse took three years to fix major vulnerabilities. TP-Link has been sued by the FTC for failing to address router and camera flaws. Ring repeatedly provided video to law enforcement without a warrant. Even Roomba vacuum's video footage has been leaked by the company entrusted with it.

It is clearly much more profitable to ignore breaches and vulnerabilities than to prevent them.

Allowing any video to exit your home network and be stored by a corporation is just asking for trouble.