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My family bought a TCL Roku tv years ago, from Walmart, for like, $90. Our old faithful 1989 Sony tube tv had finally hit the bricks, metaphorically, so we had to buy something.
This piece of shit.
Within a few months, some automatic update began crashing it on the regular, and it seemed to only do this if it'd been powered off for some time, then turned back on (wherein it would, presumably, try to update itself) and would proceed to boot-loop ad-nauseam. It would crash and freeze, regularly threatening to burn an image of some talk show host or another into it's screen, we'd come home and find it stuck, stuttering and struggling on a random channel with digital debris smeared across an unknown face, screeching horrifically.
We looked online, and it was a known issue with the model. "Your internet connection is too slow", said reddit, probably. It was a slow connection, i live in a suburb full of old white people that are afraid of the internet. DSL hooked up to a router through the landline laid in the 1920s was the only affordable option. Fiber optic connections were only for people that lived in city areas, or areas with the exorbitantly wealthy. Until last year, there were no high-speed options local to me that weren't cable plans. How i now have an actual, affordable, reliable fiber optic connection, and most of my neighbors can't, is a story for later.
Tons of idiots like us were having the same problem, as it turns out, enough people were trying to return their shitty tvs that Walmart stopped taking them back, and just gave you your money instead. They didn't give fuck all what happened with the units themselves, they were impossible to resell, and cost more to fix than they did to make. So we got our $90 back, and kept the bleeding thing. And i thought, 'it's only doing this when it turns back on, right? so if i never turn it off...'.
So i cut the power button right off of the remote.
Eventually, another update forced it's way through, and fixed the looping issue, but it still crashes from time to time. I just unplug it when it does. Never did glue the on/off button back on to the remote, it's in a junk drawer somewhere.
And i still use that fuckin' piece of shit free TV. It fits on the mantle nicely, and leaves room for artfully displaying Mum's antique pumpkin jack-o-lantern collection. It gets the local news channels just fine, and if it's feeling extra fancy, will allow Mum's phone to pair with it for the old cartoons she likes to watch. That's nice.