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in reply to TheMachineStops

Why would I use Roku anyways? It's such an inferior television operating system.
in reply to realcaseyrollins

Look at this guy with choices.

I mean - these days u go to store and buy a tv. Many people don't even know what os is on it.

in reply to humble peat digger

LOL fair. If I have a choice (we'll see when I move out) I take Google TV over Roku everytime. Roku's software is horrible, Apple got sued over doing far less than what Roku does with their operating system.
in reply to realcaseyrollins

I hope you don't think actually think that Google doesn't do the same shit.
in reply to FeelzGoodMan420

~~I do but at least they don't prevent you from suing them like Roku does.~~

Never mind, I guess they do

support.google.com/store/answe…

reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comme…

The operating system is still better though. Suck it Roku.

This entry was edited (2 months ago)
in reply to realcaseyrollins

I'm not going to argue that Roku's software is better, it's definitely worse, but honestly, it's not that much worse and doesn't really impact day to day usage.

The voice recognition in the remote is slightly worse, the OS is less pretty and a little slower to navigate, but when 90% of its time being used is either playing something or displaying a screensaver, none of that really matters. It still opens instantly when I turn the Xbox on, it still lets me open whatever app I need and select a show, and it has one feature that Google TV doesn't have that's genuinely great which is private listening, where the audio will play from the Roku app on your phone so you can use headphones and not wake anyone.

Honestly, I would buy the best picture quality TV I could and not worry about Google OS or Roku OS at this point. And if you do get a Roku TV, I definitely don't think it's worth giving Google more money on top of that.

This entry was edited (2 months ago)
in reply to masterspace

Hmm I can't say I've ever used the voice features. But I (unfortunately) got my family into the Roku ecosystem awhile ago (before streaming blew up, we had got rid of DirecTV longgggg ago when it became too expensive and my dad had lost his job) and every single Roku device we've ever had except for the 2018 Roku Premiere+ just slowly gets more and more broken over time. The interface will take multiple seconds to respond to a button press after a couple years or so. It's so bad that we have a Roku TV that's so slow that there's a Roku device plugged into it that we use instead, and even that device is so slow that I'm washing it got burned with fire. On top of that I can tell that certain apps know that they're running on crappy hardware and software (particularly the Sling TV app), and deliver footage at a horrendously low video quality as a result.
in reply to realcaseyrollins

All models except the Roku Ultra will likely need to be replaced every 12-18 months. After that they start getting incredibly slow. The Ultra's seem to hang in there for at least 36 months, sometimes longer.
in reply to Buelldozer

I hear good things about the Ultra but I'll never buy one. The Premiere+ is still killing it and I don't think we'll need to replace it, and nobody in the family seems to care as much about this as I do so I don't think they'll be replacing the other Roku products in the home anytime soon.


ODROID-C4 + lineage os android tv build + jellyfin client?


Just noticed that lineage is has an android TV build for the odroid c4, which is USD $54 (way cheaper than a pi) and you can get an ir remote for $5 and a case for $5.

Couple that with f-droid and the jellyfin android TV client, and that seems like it should be good, no?


in reply to 💭 ᴍɪɴʏᴀᴇɴ

Also cybersecurity implications here. Nefarious actors can prop up their evildoings with fake stars and pose as legitimate projects.
in reply to Gork

my first thought. I usually rely on stars for "trustworthiness" of random projects before running their code.
in reply to aliser

Ironically an open source project with under 100 stars now seems more trustworthy by default because you can be sure they aren't lying


The Passing and Lessons of Jimmy Carter


cross-posted from: thelemmy.club/post/20861681

This morning, the nation is mourning the loss of one of the most genuinely decent men ever to sit in the Oval Office. Even for his critics, Jimmy Carter was a model of empathy and integrity as an A…




The Passing and Lessons of Jimmy Carter


This morning, the nation is mourning the loss of one of the most genuinely decent men ever to sit in the Oval Office. Even for his critics, Jimmy Carter was a model of empathy and integrity as an A…




SPEED DREAMS - It's happening, folks! 🎉


Our migration from SVN to GIT has already started! You can now access our new repositories on a-lec.org/ 😍 :

The repos are now open! Please feel free to play around with them, ask questions, report feedback, etc.

To avoid confusion, please keep in mind the following TODOs:

  • Migrate existing assets (tracks, driver liveries, cars) to their own repositories.

    • This can be done at a slower pace, since we can only migrate assets whose licensing is clear and fully free (as in freedom).



    • Non-free assets should be ideally hosted elsewhere.



    • Illegal assets (e.g.: those under proprietary licenses and/or violating intellectual property, such as lancer09-wr) will not be migrated.


  • Migrate existing tickets/issues from SVN to forge.a-lec.org/speed-dreams/.
  • Make some suggested improvements to the in-game download manager.

    • "Download all" button.



    • Filter by category (car category, track type, robot type) and quality (pre-alpha, alpha, beta, production).




SPEED DREAMS - It's happening, folks! 🎉


cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/24244768

Our migration from SVN to GIT has already started! You can now access our new repositories on a-lec.org/ 😍 :

The repos are now open! Please feel free to play around with them, ask questions, report feedback, etc.

To avoid confusion, please keep in mind the following TODOs:

  • Migrate existing assets (tracks, driver liveries, cars) to their own repositories.

    • This can be done at a slower pace, since we can only migrate assets whose licensing is clear and fully free (as in freedom).



    • Non-free assets should be ideally hosted elsewhere.



    • Illegal assets (e.g.: those under proprietary licenses and/or violating intellectual property, such as lancer09-wr) will not be migrated.


  • Migrate existing tickets/issues from SVN to forge.a-lec.org/speed-dreams/.
  • Make some suggested improvements to the in-game download manager.

    • "Download all" button.



    • Filter by category (car category, track type, robot type) and quality (pre-alpha, alpha, beta, production).




Seamantic: A Semantic-Web-Bridging Mastodon Client


Hi everyone! I’m building Seamantic, a Mastodon client that introduces the "semantic feed" — a way to interact directly with the Semantic Web.

Here’s how it works:

  • Ask Questions: Post queries to the semantic feed. Bots like SeBridge (which I introduced in an earlier post) connect to knowledge bases to provide answers by listening on Mastodon hashtags for queries.
  • Contribute Data: Insert data into the feed by posting insert-queries, helping bots grow their underlying knowledge bases.
  • Sea-Level: Track your balance—querying raises the "sea-level," and contributing lowers it, encouraging collaboration. When the sea-level goes over a certain level, posting queries is blocked until the sea-level is lowered by contribution.

By connecting users and knowledge bases, the semantic feed creates a dynamic flow of high-quality, consensus-driven data.

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What do you think of the idea? Feedback is always welcome.

in reply to blue_berry

querying raises the "sea-level," and contributing lowers it, encouraging collaboration. When the sea-level goes over a certain level, posting queries is blocked


Yeah, this seems to assume that the set of people able and willing to make contributions overlaps the set interested in simply asking questions, and I can't imagine that working. You know the rule that in any community 90% just lurk, 9% comment, and maybe 1% actually contribute. For everyone but the 1%, I foresee querying until they hit the limit, then they leave.

This might be somewhat mitigated by it being a very technical system to begin with, so even being interested in queries is a barrier.

in reply to davidgro

Yeah, I know, thats a big problem of the idea. The answers would need to be really good and the querying simpler.
This entry was edited (2 months ago)
in reply to blue_berry

i mean, the sea level doesn’t have to be a limit… people edit wikipedia etc or contribute to reddit just because they like their number to be higher or their community reputation. i get that it’s meant to encourage contribution, but i think you’ll get more contribution by people just wanting to make the information better
in reply to blue_berry

Interesting. I've just read about se-bridge.org/ the other day. Maybe you can join forces or collab or just learn from each other.


Grieving relatives set up tents in airport as they wait for news about loved ones in South Korea plane crash


cross-posted from: thelemmy.club/post/20859741

“Honestly, I cannot accept what has happened and that they died,” one grieving relative told NBC News.


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