Move them to a cheap Onn Android TV device. You can configure it with a completely clean interface with no ads at all, and no asshole company’s changing the menus constantly when you install an alternate launcher. You can also debloat it like any other Android device and shut off most of the tracking (as much as is possible with Google involved anyway).

I bought my first one yesterday. After configuring it and seeing what a massive improvement it is over Roku I bought a couple more today. 2K ones are on sale for $15 right now.

The Fox acquisition was the last straw for me too. I’ve watched Roku go from a user-friendly streaming device to a front end obviously designed primarily to support Roku’s endless quest for ad revenue. A couple of years ago it became so irritating it finally pushed me to implement an Adguard Home DNS sinkhole after years of thinking it wasn’t worth the trouble. Roku has also made it difficult to block ads, big gaps are shown in the UI when you do, and some apps can’t be updated without disabling Adguard and downloading a bunch of Roku’s ads too.

Yesterday I bought an Onn streaming box (Android TV) and it’s like going from a abacus to a computer. After a couple of hours configuring, loading a new launcher, and using ADB to debloat I’ve got an ad-free, clean interface with much of Google’s tracking disabled (at least as much as possible). Even better some things (like the remote’s volume control) work that never worked with Roku.

It was such a breath of fresh air I just ordered a couple more ($15 for the 2k model right now) and will have completely dumped Roku by the end of the week.

It’s been a long time coming.

Why are we still pretending Trump, Gabbard and the rest of their ilk are not Russian assets?

You logged in yesterday and there was no response. It seemed you were ignoring the questions. Sorry to make that assumption.

You’re right, that’s really disturbing and there’s no reason to verify age for every single app. It’s just another government shot across the bow for open source apps.

You make an unsubstantiated claim, then fail to answer all questions about where it’s happening or who is sending you the notification and what’s involved.

I call bullshit.

Registering what with the government? Your app, phone #, account?

If only the Democrats had some Trump quotes to use in the next election, but who am I kidding?

If there are no remaining mainstream browsers that support ad blockers that pendulum is going to take a long time to swing back.

Google doesn’t even need to get their hands dirty like that. IMO all they need to do is continue making it difficult for companies to support Firefox when designing their websites. That, in addition to making sure companies know that Google is tirelessly working to make sure Chrome won’t work with ad blockers is going to eventually kill Firefox completely.

Of course he does. Inflation hurts working people and benefits the wealthy:

Forbes: Inflation is an insidious “hidden tax,” as it directly impacts the purchasing power of families in the United States. However, the burden is unevenly distributed across the different income and wealth strata. In fact, the upper middle class and the top 1% of Americans have actually benefited from high inflationary periods, increasing their wealth, while lower-wage families have been negatively impacted, according to a working paper by economist Edward Nathan Wolff for the National Bureau of Economic Research.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2024/04/08/how-inflation-benefits-the-wealthy-and-harms-the-working-class/ (Preview with paywall.)

It is amazing that magats still worship this guy.

I don’t feel bad for people who whine about “well, I have to go into the settings and change a thing”. How much did you pay for that browser again? Complacency is what keeps people in abusive ecosystems. Don’t be complacent or you’re part of the problem.

I’m having trouble making any sense of your word salad. Are you triggered because someone dared criticize a bonehead move by Mozilla, or are you upset that anyone’s using Firefox’s “abusive ecosystem” in the first place? Neither? Both?

Firefox has lost nearly all of their users and now has less than 4% of the market. Adding a “feature” that makes computers virtually unusable without any indication as to why is yet another reason that’s happened. Nevertheless, if poor implementation of a feature makes for an “abusive ecosystem” it means that by your definition all software is part of an abusive ecosystem.

Interesting running those… Haven’t had to worry about benchmarks on my system, both Chrome and FF are plenty fast. I do wonder how the performance of Chrome with ads would compare to Firefox with the same ads blocked? Every once in a while I use some one else’s computer and can’t believe how many animated ads show up on pages I frequent.

Do you just put up with the ads or block them another way?

Mozilla thought it would be a great idea to install AI features in Firefox and that brilliant decision may be causing your issue. Those AI features use an absurd amount of resources on some websites and when they’re enabled on my laptop, FF regularly shows ~50% CPU.

When all that BS is turned off CPU use drops to less than 2% most of the time. Search for “AI Controls” in settings and try shutting them all off.

If AOC had emailed her tax info out you know damn well that Fox, Newsmax and the rest of the GOP propaganda machine would not have hesitated to publish every detail and it would be her own damned fault. The idea that the Republicans would ever abide by anything resembling a political golden rule is credulous at best and it is one of the things that has created the right wing control of all three branches of government .

Tuberville is the very incarnation of stupid, created his own problem and deserves every bit of it. Now he’s going to learn about the Streisand Effect and he’ll deserve that too.

The anti li-ion crowd here is really strange. I wonder if they’re also anti-vaccine?

Dell bios settings often include battery charge limit settings. I have mine set to a 70% limit which provides hours of backup with the display off.

Modern laptop batteries when kept cool and undamaged are extremely safe despite what you might read in these comments, especially when you limit the charge. Parking your car in your garage is hundreds of times more hazardous.

The bad news is, if you’re not on Team Tux, you’re going to have to pay $60 for Brave Origin. Granted, you only need to buy it once, and you’ll get unlimited activations across all of your devices.

It’s amazing people still believe this BS.

Way more than 5% where I am. Canadian tourism has dropped 80%.

I live in an area with a huge number of Canadian snowbirds in a normal year. This year there are almost none.

The SC has no authority over state laws unless they find them unconstitutional or conflict with federal laws. I don’t think even the 6 GOP justices would go that far.