• Hellmo_luciferrari@lemm.ee
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    24 hours ago

    I wouldn’t say this is “better”

    I do run a pihole, but I still will never connect my roku to the internet. It is much better to have a media PC or other streaming device I have control of fully connected.

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      17 hours ago

      Amen. I run a PiHole, and also just use lil computers on all of my screens and download anything I watch and put it on a lil server they all can stream from! No ads, best quality!

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      24 hours ago

      True, but most people are buying off-the-shelf stuff and they don’t have their own localized piracy-enabled libraries with a Jellyfin server.

      Further, I’m pretty sure you’ve got to connect your Roku at least once to install player apps like Jellyfin. But maybe you don’t, I’m not at all familiar with if you can sideload on a Roku.

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        7 hours ago

        For any streaming, Netflix, YouTube, or anything I would always use a computer. Not some awful app on a slow device. No screen of mine needs to be anything besides a screen.

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        22 hours ago

        There is actually a way to sideload apps without internet. I did it once and forgot the details