Is there anything interesting you can do with a Chromecast dongle by jailbreaking it, if you can get one for cheap?
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Don't need to jailbreak, it already works with pirate sites with the right app
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
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.
I guess onn is going to completely take over the low price streaming box market then.
I'm waiting for Gmail, it has to be soon :)
No the NSA, CIA, FBI and all the other alphabet agencies would never allow it.
Alphabet agencies and Alphabet companies.
Name a more iconic duo
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 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 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. Now all that's left of it is the pihole I used to block ads for it.
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i mean not surprising since google tv with chromecast has been superior and the next logical step for it
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?
KDE Plasma Big screen looks promising. Combine it with TV friendly apps like Jellyfin and plasma tube, and it should be pretty competitive and actually receive updates.
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Damm I've used these to stream my security cameras to portable monitors around the house. I hope they keep working
Let's hope this doesn't only support FAT32 so we can actually add movies to it
On another news "Why is everyone hating google now?" lol