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variants ,

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

LainTrain , (edited )

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.

2pt_perversion ,

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

cupcakezealot ,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

i mean not surprising since google tv with chromecast has been superior and the next logical step for it

FireWire400 ,
@FireWire400@lemmy.world avatar

As long as they don’t completely nix the support à la Spotify Car Thing I’m fine with it

_pete_ ,

I feel the original Chromecast was probably the last truly great original Google product, it was simple, it was inexpensive and it worked - you just plugged it in, joined your network and you were off, there really wasn’t anything like it at the time.

I really hate what they’ve become.

bam13302 ,

What changed? I thought that is still what they did.

CameronDev ,

Chromecast with Google TV made the “simple” casting worse for some apps like Netflix. Instead of it casting directly, it would spawn the Netflix app and make you use the remote to reselect the show you wanted to see.

Quill7513 ,

What’s funny is that was actually the start of them becoming who they are now. There’s a litany of evidence they stole the Chromecast technology

chevy9294 ,

I’m waiting for Gmail, it has to be soon :)

Dead_or_Alive ,

No the NSA, CIA, FBI and all the other alphabet agencies would never allow it.

Ghoelian ,

So what’s the best android tv box nowadays? Still the Shield TV?

I have the latest chromecast with android tv (i think, who knows with these garbage model names), and it’s always been quite sluggish to use, and I can’t replace the home screen on it to one without ads since they locked down the bootloader.

So I’m looking for one that’s a bit snappier, and preferably with an unlockable bootloader, or at least the ability to replace the default launcher.

AethonRose ,

Anyone looking for a streaming box look into the Walmart Onn 4k Pro, came out earlier this year and it works great. The remote has an annoying button on it, but that’s my only complaint.

vext01 ,
@vext01@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Hopefully people will reverse engineer the firmware and protocol so that the old devices aren’t total landfill.

Google have lost their mind…

schizoidman ,

I think it just means google would stop selling it as the new google TV streamer is up for sale. My Chromecast from 2015 is still working till this day.

Damage ,

Eh as long as the protocol stays the same who cares? Everything has it built in nowadays, and even if it doesn’t, I bet China won’t stop making Chromecast dongles

Amir ,
@Amir@lemmy.ml avatar

Literally all my friends know the name “Chromecast”, why would you rename it

Venator ,

Why does Google do any of the dumb shit they do?

darkevilmac ,
@darkevilmac@lemmy.zip avatar

To justify the salaries of their product managers

2pt_perversion ,

Chromecast naming scheme did get weird - it’s difficult for someone who doesn’t follow these things to know if they want the chromecast ultra or chromecast with google tv. I agree though they should have just called the new product something like “Chromecast Box 2025”.

praise_idleness ,

Get a pi, people. There are very few reasons you would want Chromecast.

Luvs2Spuj ,

Size and portability.? Ease of use?

TimeSquirrel ,
@TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org avatar

Very few reasons for people with technical ability, which the Fediverse overrepresents. It's easy to get the idea that anyone can pick up something like a Pi and install and configure an OS image on it. It seems simple to us, but 95% of people will not/cannot do this. They have better things to do than learn IT skills.

AlligatorBlizzard ,

Is there anything interesting you can do with a Chromecast dongle by jailbreaking it, if you can get one for cheap?

Blackout ,
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Don't need to jailbreak, it already works with pirate sites with the right app

PlutoniumAcid ,
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Will existing devices continue to work “forever” or must we add them to the graveyard?

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