Mastodawn

If you have a Roku smart TV, today is a great day to do a factory reset, disable WiFi, and plug in an Apple TV or Google TV via HDMI instead.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/fox-corporation-to-acquire-roku-inc-302800220.html

FOX CORPORATION TO ACQUIRE ROKU, INC.

/PRNewswire/ -- June 15, 2026 – Fox Corporation (Nasdaq: FOXA, FOX) ("FOX" or the "Company") and Roku, Inc. (Nasdaq: ROKU) ("Roku") today announced they have...

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Scale Theory 1d ago

@aram

2 very bad alternative suggestions, apple or google? Seriously?
Both are highly anti-democratic funding MAGA while committing it's treasonous bidding stealing your privacy.
Grow some values and American dignity everyone!

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Stu 1d ago

@SCALETHEORY @aram Are there alternative streaming devices? Other than FireTV, who I don't want to return to, I'm drawing a blank.

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Bill 1d ago

@tehstu @SCALETHEORY @aram Fortunately, it is fairly trivial and well-documented how to set up a media server on either Windows or Linux. I had my set up that way for years before I moved to Roku. Now I guess I'll be moving back.

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Stu 1d ago

@Sempf @SCALETHEORY @aram When you say media server, do you mean playing my own movie files or continuing to stream with Netflix and so on?

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Bill 1d ago

@tehstu What I'm talking about here wasn't and presumably still isn't a one click operation. It was a tinkering project that worked well.

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Stu

@Sempf I'm up for tinkering but I need to replace 3 devices, with something which always works and has a remote (and isn't subject to the whims of "welp, Netflix prevented this non official workaround from working again"). I do have Jellyfin running for our home collection, though.

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Bill 1d ago

@tehstu It's the "always works" thing that drove me back to Roku. It was fine for me but if I left the house the family would be utterly stopped if something broke. I have Plex running locally, and my son's girlfriend has Jellyfin, so that's fun.