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Re:My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answeri... by barrkel on Friday February 15, 2019 @12:57PM (#19173072)
Not a coffee shop, but certainly a hotel room, to cast some entertainment on the TV rather than rely on a laptop.
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Re:My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answeri... by farisjarrah on Friday February 15, 2019 @02:17PM (#19173820)
The hotel thing can be a pain if there is some sort of per device login portal.
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Re:My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answeri... by michel-slm on Friday February 15, 2019 @04:55PM (#19175074)
Roku and Amazon Fire TV works fine with captive portals though (Roku elegantly asks you to connect to a custom WiFi AP that just forwards the captive portal to your phone). So this is another case of Google making assumptions that limit their devices' usability.
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