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Re:72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS se... by fiddlerwoaroof on Saturday December 05, 2020 @01:36PM (#25316987)
What’s user-hostile is every consumer device insisting on pushing its defaults and ignoring any network policies I’ve configured.
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Re:72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS se... by shawnz on Saturday December 05, 2020 @01:51PM (#25317172)
Yes, I agree that is also user-hostile, since it should be configurable. The problem is not about network policies though, since DHCP is explicitly not designed to be a policy and is purposely meant to be optional for the client.

For this reason I wouldn't recommend buying a device like the Chromecast, in which the user can't configure the network settings. Instead maybe consider something like the Amazon Fire Stick which is not as user-hostile.

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