Comment on Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line

• CameronDev@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • CameronDev@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Remind me, what app did it use before? I have had Chromecast since gen 1, can’t remember any other app, but that’s probably my memory failing.

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      • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Honestly I don’t remember. I had a gen 1 Chromecast as well and I think it was just a Chromecast app. Now it’s all integrated with Google Home.

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    • FrederikNJS@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Why on earth would you have multiple WiFi networks in your home?

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      • CameronDev@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I take my Chromecast on holiday, you basically have to factory reset it every time to change network. But my recollection is that you’ve always had to do that.

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      • foggenbooty@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I have a trusted network, an IoT network (where the CC would go), and a guest network.

        I know most people aren’t going to have the time or knowledge set up network segmentation, but it’s still good practice.

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      • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I personally have a Comcast router/modem with its own network. I have a network switch that I plug into the router that I use for hard coded stuff. Mostly my PC and a couple other things that I want to run fast instead of convenient. Then I have a WiFi mesh network that I run for most of my other devices, including my phone.

        So for my Chromecast, if I want to stream from my phone on the mesh network, I have it on one network. But if I want to stream from my PC, I have it on another network. While with most devices, changing the network you’re connected to is simple, it’s a massive pain in the ass with a Chromecast.

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  • jpeps@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah I got one of the newer ones after having a ton of the earlier models and I was disgusted by that change. Instantly returned it and bought one of the discontinued Ultras for 4K.

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    • CameronDev@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I did the exact same thing. Its such a stupid step backwards in functionality.

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• _pete_@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • ealoe@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • _pete_@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • Natanael@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s what they did until OpenAI started making noise and management pushed out everybody working on safety and quality to cut corners and rush something out to compete (poorly)

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