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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Family practically thought I was David Blaine when I got a first gen Chromecast back in the day.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 4 months ago (6 children)

The Chromecast was one of the few things I really liked made by Google. I always have one in my travel bag and it's basically like bringing your own home theater to the hotel with you. I had a time where I lived in hotels and AirBnB's for almost a year and this thing was god send.

They have some other device which they want to sell which will replace it, but that one is big and clunky, not meant for traveling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSSI_Ht6Mis

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Makes sense. Smart TVs weren't common at that point, now you can't avoid them.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Hmm, so, last month I began to have issues with my Chromecast for the first time. I have an old 3rd gen Chromecast attached to my bedroom television (not a smart tv) for the purpose of casting obnoxiously long video essays to fall asleep to. After like a decade of essentially hassle free operation, it suddenly stopped being able to maintain a connection to my phone. I cast a video, and after approximately 10 minutes, the cast disconnects and I get a message on my phone saying "this video cannot be played in the background". I've tried ever troubleshooting technique I can think of.

I know I shouldn't attribute to malice what can be explained by other causes, but boy, seeing this news today sure makes me think about things like planned obsolescence.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago

Planned obsolescence is built into googles processes.

They've created an environment where your primary method of advancing in your career is only creating new things and there's little to no options when choosing to support existing things. Some things have survived by chance and/or something to keep employees busy, but it's unintentional.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I have had the exact issue. I see a device disconnected message on my TV and typically give up.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

On another news "Why is everyone hating google now?" lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Let's hope this doesn't only support FAT32 so we can actually add movies to it

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Another one for the graveyard

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Me - Ok Google, give me a open source way to turn my raspberry pi into a 4k streaming box.

Google - Got it. Playing Tyler Swift on living room tv

Me - wtf?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

HardKernel makesa a few ODROID models that come with available Android TV builds. Some have the same chipset as the AMLogic on the CCwGTV 4K and they aren't terribly expensive. If I wanted an open source Chromecast replacement I'd go for that.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

KDE Plasma Big screen looks promising. Combine it with TV friendly apps like Jellyfin and plasma tube, and it should be pretty competitive and actually receive updates.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for mentioning KDE Plasma Big Screen it's an interesting attempt. It's written in Qt, like many of the TV UIs today anyway. I need to check it out.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Damm I've used these to stream my security cameras to portable monitors around the house. I hope they keep working

[–] [email protected] 52 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

RIP to a real one.

Back in the day when streaming was cheap as hell and made sense as all things were on Netflix, having a Home Mini with and a Chromecast was bliss.

I used to have a shortcut for the phrase "I'm so tired", it would start playing Star Trek TNG from Netflix on the Chromecast monitor and it just werked. Saved me from a bad trip once too, I was really uncomfortable on 135ug so in a desperate attempt to hold onto reality I said "alexa...uhmm...uh...hey google play RoboCop" and it just worked.

Only thing is it played the wrong RoboCop (2014) but that only distracted me from spiraling further, like "hold up Samuel L Jackson was in this?"

It feels weird to say but I was a genuinely happy customer. Then the home mini stopped working as well, started triggering by itself, didn't hear words right, then the Chromecast had trouble updating firmware and rebooting. Then Netflix platformed that douchebag chapelle.

Now all that's left of it is the pihole I used to block ads for it.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

I guess onn is going to completely take over the low price streaming box market then.

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