Not a surprise for Roku. The company has been getting progressively worse in the last few years and their enshittification is accelerating. Their recent forced download of an update that requires users to agree to arbitration to even use our TVs was intended to ultimately take control of those TVs completely away from the people who own them.

Right now it’s possible to block Roku’s static ads and presumably the autoplaying ones using a local DNS server like Adblock Home or Pihole, but it’s only a matter of time before Roku blocks everything unless we watch the ads they are trying force down our throats. I’m already in the process of obsoleting all 5 of our Roku devices.

It has taken Roku years to build up enough market share to allow this kind of behavior and it will take years for the market to abandon them. Their executives will claim ignorance as to why users are walking away when it finally hits their bottom line.

After trying out dozens of distros for years I didn’t want to deal with stability issues and troubleshoot odd problems anymore. I reinstalled Mint years almost 10 ago. Mint has gotten significantly better and more stable with each release since.

Now I only use 3 distros on a regular basis. Mint as a desktop OS, Raspberry Pi OS, and Debian (with Cinnamon) for a server running software that requires Debian for support. Debian was far more difficult to configure than Mint even on the new Dell laptop being used as a server.

I still try out other distros occasionally in VMs and using Live USBs, but still haven’t found anything that works as well on my hardware and for my needs as Mint.

I don’t hate you and I can think of perhaps 2 people I’ve ever known that I have hated. You hate someone who irritates you with a few comments on social media.

I pity you.

I used to work for a Fortune 500 tech company that dealt with thousands of other businesses. Someone on the executive team decided that everyone in the company should be actively pushing our products every time they had customer contact. Customer calls about a bill? Sell them something. They have a major problem and are angry about it? Sell them something. Need to use their bathroom? Sell them something.

It just irritated our customers and didn’t result in any more sales. It seems that executive got a job at Microsoft.

You really believe a single Google search is work? Have you ever had to do real work?

I have no problem providing a source for esoteric, difficult to find information, but when someone so is so ridiculously entitled they’re literally too lazy to type into Google the precise same thing they’re typing into a comment field they can whine until they’re blue in the face before I’ll do it for them. Users like you can also whine about it as much as pleases you and if you don’t like it you should complain to the manager.

Here at Lemmy we’re trying, blah, blah blah.

You joined 4 months ago and think you now speak for all of Lemmy? What an ego you have!

I’m sad for you that you waste your time and energy hating Americans. Do you think you’re being edgy? Maybe you need a hobby,.

2-4 citations are required for the simplest college essay and you’ve provide only one. You should look that up, but that would mean the onus of finding the citation for citations would be on you.

It’s sad that I must point this out, but this is a comment section, not a reference article or college essay. Footnotes and references are not required or expected here and every user on this site knows how to use Google.

No argument about anything, nor will I provide you sources that show thunder isn’t caused by Thor’s hammer, the moon causes tides, or that Ivermectin doesn’t cure Covid,

Microsoft’s use of a keylogger started with a Windows 7 update and has been well documented for almost a decade. It’s not my problem you’re uninformed. If you want to waste your time and energy complaining that a random Internet stranger refuses to spoon-feed you simple search results, that’s entirely up to you.

My friend got a call from “Best Buy” technical support saying they’d noticed her computer was slow and followed their instructions to set up remote access. Unfortunately she didn’t realize that there was anything to be worried about. It wasn’t until months later when she left the computer on and unattended that the scammers took control. Fidelity wired the money out of her account before she saw the notification and Fidelity has been jerking her around ever since. She’s still badly shaken.

I’d put her on Mint, but as much as I enjoy her company I don’t want to be permanent tech support for her computer.

Anyone who’s so lazy they literally refuse to type the same words used in their comment into a search engine doesn’t deserve to be taken seriously. There are lots of adults on Lemmy, but apparently we have a few children too.

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Have you tried a Google search?

I just reinstalled and configured Windows for a friend who’s machine was hacked, so my frustration with Microsoft is very fresh. (She lost 8 thousand dollars of her savings she’s still trying to get back.) After years of using Linux I feel like I’m being punished every time I help someone with their Windows machine.

/Rant

These things in particular drive me nuts:

• Sending everything users do and type (including passwords) back to Microsoft. It’s called spyware when other companies do it. It should be called spyware when it’s an OS called Microsoft Windows.
• Flooding 1/2 the screen with web search results when a search is done from the start menu. I’m looking for an installed program, not a potato recipe.
• Requiring a registry edit to turn that web search off and lots of other simple things that use to be configurable in settings.
• Placing ads throughout the operating system and making it difficult to turn those ads off.
• Forcing the use of the Edge browser no matter what users choose.
• Preventing the removal of unwanted programs without editing the registry.
• Forced updates at Microsoft’s convenience.
• Absurdly long restart times after updating.
• Forced OS version upgrades.
• Reverting settings that have been changed by the user to settings that directly benefit Microsoft’s sales and marketing goals.
• Forced restarts of the operating system causing data loss and the loss of millions of hours of work for millions of users.
• Removing more and more user settings with each new OS release.
• Burying commonly used menu items multiple menus deep.
• Preventing the removal of Start menu items. I will never use the Xbox Game Bar no matter how many time I’m forced to see it.

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