# My Roku Turns Itself On

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 21, 2025, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-roku-turns-itself-on/1015905 "2025-03-21T11:39:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 22, 2025, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-roku-turns-itself-on/1015905/20 "2025-03-22T00:47:25Z")

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> [@TV switches on by itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-switches-on-by-itself/1014213):
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> This afternoon, I was at my desk working. Suddenly sound from the other room. Then Trump’s and Musk’s voices. It was the unwelcome live broadcast from the Oval Office that is elsewhere a topic of discussion tonight. That TV had not been switched on in weeks. The remote had not been touched in weeks. The TV has sat there for over a decade and has never once before switched on by itself. What can explain this strange occurrence at such a time?

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