Comment No privacy coins (Score 1) 34
Comment Re: Perfect Climate Justice (Score 1) 41
Comment Re: for some reason I stopped buying new games (Score 2) 124
Comment Re: oh good, SIM-based (Score 1) 13
Comment Re:Question of today (Score 1) 77
Comment I used to visit slashdot for tech news (Score 1) 175
Comment Re: Historic Firsts (Score 0) 432
Comment Re: Stupid ideas (Score 1) 114
Comment What does this mean for Audible? (Score 1) 24
Comment translate from wife to husband (Score 1) 109
Rather than listening to ten minutes of the illogical, I could tune out and glance at my phone for translation:
"I'm upset, but I don't want to explain why. You should already know."
Comment They shot themselves in the foot (Score -1) 14
Comment Why not VLC? (Score 2) 16
Comment Re: Age vs Identity (Score 2) 166
Comment This is why you can't leave an app open (Score 4, Interesting) 60
It used to be that you could leave an app open on your Roku and resume where you left off when you returned. Say you're watching a long YouTube video and hit the pause button and run to the store. When you got back the video was still paused and you could resume right where you left off.
At some point the functionality changed and now you're brought to the home screen after a period of inactivity.
Frustrated, I asked around in the forums only to be told this was an effort by Roku to force users to see ads displayed on the home screen. I was originally skeptical of the claim but now I realize that was Roku's plan all along.
I stopped using my Roku after that move. I've since switched to using the apps on the LG TV which don't "auto-stop" after a period of inactivity.