• bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    Buy a small PC, get one of those keyboard and trackpad things that is the form factor of a TV remote. It’s more expensive but nobody can deprecate it from you and you can stream anything you could stream to a web browser or torrent onto a hard drive. I did it earlier this year and regret not doing it sooner.

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      3 months ago

      That’s basically what the first Chromecast engineer saw his wife doing that inspired him to think up the Chromecast…

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        3 months ago

        My understanding was that Chromecast was just Google running the Embrace Extend Extinguish playbook on Miracast