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SomeGuy69 ,
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On another news “Why is everyone hating google now?” lol

_sideffect ,

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

108 ,

Another one for the graveyard

thezeesystem ,

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?

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

FireWire400 ,
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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.

_pete_ ,

I feels like they either badly copy (see Gemini) or don’t think about what they’re offering (see Stadia’s busted business model) they’re content to milk the existing services they’ve already got and make them worse by cramming in more ads (see YouTube, Google’s search result pages) and they cut out or dictate the web through their monopolies (see AMP and Chrome) rather than working with other parties to make good products.

They feel like Hooli in Silicon Valley, basically the definition of a fat tech giant who doesn’t do any innovation of their own.

ealoe ,

Badly copy (see Gemini)

Tf are you smoking dude, Google has been working on AI long before ChatGPT was a twinkle in Sam Altman’s eye. They didn’t release any public models because they wanted to go about it safely and not just dump the world’s best misinformation creator on the open market for anyone to use with little safeguards. All that went out the window when ChatGPT got all the press and google decided they wanted a piece of the hype, but pretending they “didn’t do any innovation of their own” in regards to AI is ludicrous. They have been at the forefront of AI development for the last decade, and the fact you think otherwise shows your only knowledge about AI is from after ChatGPT headlines started coming out.

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.

bitwaba ,

Alphabet agencies and Alphabet companies.

Name a more iconic duo

corsicanguppy ,

Name a more iconic duo

Microsoft and Sobbing.

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 ,
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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

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