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Comment by baggachipz | Hacker News Reader

Time for the 'Fox News' button on the Roku remote. Truth Social tweets on your screensaver.

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When I got my house, I needed to set up internet, and Verizon FIOS was what I went for.

I called them to get it set up, and when I suggested the internet dude on the line kept trying to upsell me TV packages. I was polite at first but eventually I said something like "listen, I don't want your 'Movie Lovers' package. I don't want your 'Sports Fan' package. I don't want your 'Family Entertainment' package. I don't want your 'Comedy Lover' package. I just want internet. I do not want anything but internet. If you pitch more more packages I will still only want internet".

Admittedly a little rude, but the guy did get the point after that and he was perfectly helpful getting everything set up.

I'm sure they're forced to do that and graded on how many upgrades they sell. Their bosses will even listen on calls and if they don't make all those pitches, they'll get written up or fired. Source: seen it first-person.

Yeah, I wasn't really upset with the guy for reading his script. I'm sure he was doing what he was trained to do. I figured that if I gave the little diatribe then I kind of figured that he wouldn't get in trouble for just moving on.

But that's only more reason to push back firmly.

I'm impressed that you were able to cancel SiriusXM. I thought that it was set up to cling to people for life, and possibly continue billing their estate after death.

I think they actually got in trouble with a lawsuit over that?

FWIW I canceled my SiriusXM like a year ago and it wasn't too hard. Just a web form.

All they do now is hound you incessantly until the end of time with a rock-bottom price for 6 months.

What's really obnoxious is that that in Canada, you can't get a basic cable bundle without an American Fox News affiliate included.

What's extreme about trying to live your values?

I don't see politics as left and right. To me they are in the shape of a Radar chart or Radial Column chart or Sunburst diagram.

People in real life are multi-facet not singularly polar. People with agendas and grifters are polar. Polarization is also for those that want to be self-defined by a party.

I also do not support news or other agencies that reject STEMM or use questions to mask direct lying.

Back when we had things like Dish and cable, I was able to put a "Parental Block" on channels. I used this to hide or remove channels I never watched, but I found it had a secondary benefit when my Texan in-laws visited -- "Sorry, our TV package doesn't include Fox News".

Actually, a more likely button might be "Sports" which would either open your preferred sports app (smarter way to do it) and default to Fox Sports, or a "Stream TV" type button that opens up Tubi which is already run by Fox, and surprisingly had decent content on it.

I'm not surprised they're going this route, and would not be surprised if News becomes a drastically smaller piece of Fox over the coming years.

Why would this be more likely? The current remotes already have a Netflix button, a Hulu button, a Sling button and a Disney+ button. Roku sells dedicated buttons on their remotes to the highest bidder.

More like, time for Apple TV boxes to replace Roku boxes. I’ve been wanting to do this for a while but had no good reason.

Now there is a good reason.

It's a much better experience anyway. I've had mine for a couple years and wondered why I didn't do it sooner.

My Samsung TV sometimes auto-plays Fox when I turn it on. It's very annoying.

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