My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answering 8.8.8.8

Re:My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answeri... by eeeeeeeeeeeee on Friday February 15, 2019 @09:50AM (#19171308)

I would actually find it much more annoying from a troubleshooting perspective if every single IOT device I buy has a different hard-coded DNS server, provided by that manufacturer, instead of the one set by my local DHCP server. Because when the DNS set by your network fails, everything fails almost instantly and it's fairly easy to spot the problem from any device on your network.

RE: configurability ... I thought one of the main reasons people went with Google over Apple, specifically with Android, was precisely because of their configurability. Every person I talk to that left iOS tells me this.

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Re:My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answeri... by scrollaway on Friday February 15, 2019 @12:00PM (#19172507)

Android is the exception IMO. Google's product are notoriously unconfigurable. For example, Chrome got a lot of flak over this especially in its early days.

Android also seems to be going the way of iOS on many fronts, because as it turns out, this philosophy makes things hard to maintain.

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