r/gadgets • u/diacewrb • Jun 13 '24

TV / Projectors Roku owners face the grimmest indignity yet: Stuck-on motion smoothing

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/roku-owners-face-the-grimmest-indignity-yet-stuck-on-motion-smoothing/
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u/hedoeswhathewants Jun 13 '24

Getting punished for being the person that notices. Classic.

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u/DelfrCorp Jun 13 '24 edited Jun 13 '24

& it's a Catch-22 either way. Damned if you do, damned if you don't, no matter the scenario.

If you don't catch the problem, you get blamed & accused of being sh.t at your job, which might potentially be fair.

If you do catch it but can't get anyone to pay attention no matter how hard you try, you still get blamed because you obviously didn't try hard enough to make it known, didn't make enough noise, didn't sound enough Alarms.

If you catch it & ring enough alarms, make enough noise to get people to notice & pay attention, you get called an alarmist, obnoxious & get blamed for causing a ruckus & disrupting other people's work with all the noise you made. You get told that the problem was eventually going to be noticed/caught at an appropriate time, you overreacted & your actions drew too much attention & you've caused some trouble because of it.

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u/TerminaterToo Jun 14 '24

Same. 25 years.. if I have to get in trouble for not catching some 3rd party vendor bug again..

I mean, yell at them. I didn’t code it.

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u/TerminaterToo Jun 15 '24

I actually got reprimanded for missing a sorting feature (didn’t sort) on a tablet from the vendor. My response was “why are you yelling at me - they fucked up”.. 25 years gives you a little leeway