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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.

_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.

jballs ,
@jballs@sh.itjust.works avatar

Also they made it reliant on the Google Home app, which makes it really hard to change WiFi networks. It’s a pain in the ass if you have multiple WiFi networks setup at your house.

_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.

_pete_ ,

www.popsci.com/wp-content/…/GluePizzaAI.png?strip…

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

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

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

2pt_perversion ,

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

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.

variants ,

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

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?

avidamoeba ,
@avidamoeba@lemmy.ca avatar

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.

108 ,

Another one for the graveyard

_sideffect ,

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

SomeGuy69 ,
@SomeGuy69@lemmy.world avatar

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

redhorsejacket ,

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.

BeMoreCareful ,

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

BarbecueCowboy ,

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.

FalseMyrmidon ,

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

olympicyes ,

I don’t allow my TVs to touch the internet. I hadn’t realized how much they phone home until disabling upnp on my router locked the tv up and I couldn’t navigate the Home Screen without a terrible delay. The telemetry collection is out of control and they fingerprint everything you watch from a connected device. No thanks.

jeena ,
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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

WanderingVentra ,

Dammit. I like it for the same reason. Why does Google keep doing this?

jdeath ,

well, it’s just in their DNA. institutional inertia is a helluva drug!

BuddyTheBeefalo ,

I take my raspberry pi 400 with me ($70). I don’t like to travel with expensive things. Once connected to a hotel tv, i have a full pc. I watch movies in 720p to have more fps. In case I have something important to do but no TV, I vnc to my phone.

MerchantsOfMisery ,

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

Evotech ,

It was magic. Still is tbh.

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