The free Roku app replaced my remote, headphone adapter, and on-screen keyboard

The sometimes-problematic Roku remote disappeared for most of a week. Not dead batteries, not wedged in the couch cushions where I’d already checked — actually gone, the kind of gone where you look in the same three spots four times each and it still isn’t there. Rather than dig through a junk drawer for AAA batteries and a remote I still couldn’t find, I pulled up the Roku app on my phone, mostly just to buy time until it turned up.