Oh well, off to the graveyard
this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2024
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I don’t invest my time in Google products anymore. Right now Gmail is the last Google service I still use.
ITT: People who don't know as much as me.
All they killed was the branding. The Chromecast with Google TV was such a far cry from an OG Chromecast that it was stupid for them to have the same name.
OG Chromecast could only cast and did not have a remote. The CCwGT did still support casting, but also had a remote and a real UI.
The TV streamer is just the CCwGT in a fancy shell with probably a more powerful processor. I'll bet money that it still supports casting, and can only do pretty much exactly what the CCwGT could do.
Yeah, the google TV dongle has been the mainline product for like 5 years at this point. Honestly it's pretty good because it means I don't have to let my TV connect to the internet so it cant download ads.
That's the #1 reason why I use a chromecast instead of using the built-in TV function
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Seems like most of the streaming hardware companies (amazon/roku/Google) are going out of their way to make products worse. Someone's probably going to take their lunch and they'll all act shocked about it.
Seems a dangerous game to play with so many Asian alternatives and sbc computers getting to the point they could do that job.
Don't get me wrong this box isn't horrible just really overpriced for the old specs.
US business "leadership" is high on monopoly power... They don't care what customer wants, they don't care what competitors are doing that's not one of them.
They treat American consumer as a cornered market to be milked at every corner. The issie is that many Americans LARP it as gospel.
Vote with your fucking money, deny them profit and engagement.
Media is ripe for this, piracy is the solution the problem here. I wish other markets were as is lol
If we can't even set this clowns straight, how do you think we will fix housing food education. And healthcare?
Goverment gonna be fix for you, boy?
Pinky promise!
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Ah I'm not an American consumer, just these companies acting suicidely mostly in an attempt to restrict their devices and force more ads I think.
I just think they are playing a dumb game because something is definetly going to undercut the lot of them while they are playing silly games. I think my next streaming TV device will be a good sbc as I just don't like these company's being in full control of my own devices.
At the minute I'm favouring a ryzen apu board but arms making a very strong showing now as well, so yeah I really don't believe these big companies will get away with it for long.
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Is there any open source chrome cast? I know of one project but it required a special server as well. I just want to plug something into my HDMI port so I can cast dumb YouTube videos, why does it have to be this hard.
All I want is something that I can put on a raspberry pi, and then from my phone use the "share" menu to share a URL to some app that communicates with the pi and plays the video URL.
Why doesn't that exist yet? Share YouTube video to rasp. Pi, then have and controls on the phone app.
https://github.com/MayaPosch/NymphCast this exists. I built a proxmox server and patched qemu so I could have a gaming virtual machine, and yet that repo looks like more work than I want to do 😅
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I don't know if Kodi is still around, I used it years ago on a raspberry pi. Bit of a faff but if YouTube is all you need then it should be good enough. Or maybe a second hand Chromebook?
You can install LineageOS on one of the models of Chromecast for Android TV.
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If I wanted a streaming box I'd buy or build a streaming box. If I wanted anyone with my remote control to be able to access my YouTube viewing history and all my streaming accounts I'd make it happen. What I want is a cheap dongle that my family and guests can use to quickly share media to the big screen!
Isn't that what a Chromecast is? The one I have, you just connect to the wifi and it shows up as a cast target. It doesn't do anything else.
They don't make those anymore, I think
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"Google kills Chromecast and replaces it with something that it will also kill and replace in a few years"
I made the mistake of buying Google Homes years ago. They got badly nerfed last year — Google removed the ability to read recipes out loud, which is the main thing I used it for. They also crippled the API so that I can no longer add tasks to Todoist. I'm never buying another Google product.