Re:My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answeri...
by apostacy on Friday February 15, 2019 @02:31PM
(#19173949)
Thank you! I feel gaslit even talking about this!
Mention this online, and you will get a torrent of people telling you that you must be doing something wrong, and even if it is true Google probably has a good reason that is just beyond our understanding.
I just talked about my experience with Chromecast here a few hours ago in another thread. [1]
The Google product forums are way worse.
It is not reasonable that I should have to do packet injection to not let my Chromecast connect to Google's DNS servers, especially if I just want to watch locally streamed videos.
Google has slowly been carving features off of the Chromecast for the last four years. I only use it for local video content, so why must I update when it has burned me in the past?
What really kills me is how we wouldn't let Microsoft or Facebook pull this crap.
Mention this online, and you will get a torrent of people telling you that you must be doing something wrong, and even if it is true Google probably has a good reason that is just beyond our understanding.
I just talked about my experience with Chromecast here a few hours ago in another thread. [1] The Google product forums are way worse.
It is not reasonable that I should have to do packet injection to not let my Chromecast connect to Google's DNS servers, especially if I just want to watch locally streamed videos.
Google has slowly been carving features off of the Chromecast for the last four years. I only use it for local video content, so why must I update when it has burned me in the past?
What really kills me is how we wouldn't let Microsoft or Facebook pull this crap.
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19171115