Google Cache Is Fully Dead

Re:Google Cache Is Fully Dead by SamBam on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @06:00PM (#41641420)

I think GP's point was specifically Google's famous history of starting projects and then shutting them down within a few years. Old Rokus still work. My Roku 3600 is eight years old.

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Re:Google Cache Is Fully Dead by Alupis on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @06:30PM (#41641654)

My old Roku is now so sluggish and slow, it's a paper weight and I had to buy a new one.

All consumer electronics are designed to be disposable. GP's point was a grievance with consumer electronics at large, not Google's. What other consumer electronics allow you to replace the OS with your own, or receive infinite updates forever? Zero.

Chromecast lasted for a decade, and is "dead" only in name. None of GP's statement is on-point for a typical "Google kills things all the time" complaint.

If we're going to throw shade at Google, make sure it's about legitimate things.

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Re:Google Cache Is Fully Dead by seabrookmx on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @06:47PM (#41641796)

So do old Chromecast's.

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Re:Google Cache Is Fully Dead by vel0city on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @09:24PM (#41642711)

My Chromecast is 11 years old and still works fine. Sometimes YouTube thinks it can try playing back the higher bitrate 4k version of a video and it'll get choppy but I've never had issues with 1080p content.

My older Roku 2 is effectively unusable as most apps are just outrageously sluggish and videos often crash loading.

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