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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • I have no idea what people are fucking up tbh.

    It’s 2 button clicks to cast stuff, I just went and sanity checked.

    The internet is full of disinformation and idiots though so I usually just assume people are the issue, when I have the same hardware and zero issues.

    I don’t think chromecasts have even gotten any kind of major change updates in ages so it’s bizarre for it to change behavior.

    I’m gonna just keep going with “people are dumb” until someone posts some concrete example (IE an actual video) of wtf their issue is.

    The chromecast is designed so simply though that I can’t imagine wtf people are fucking up.



  • I wrote it up elsewhere, but I don’t mind the price point.

    The built in ethernet port covers a lot of that.

    A solid quality ethernet dongle is gonna be $25, so now that’s $75 for the 4k CCwGTV + ethernet.

    So you’re paying $25 extra for the better form factor (2 chained dongles look so bad), the extra ram, better processor, etc

    For some folks that might not matter, but I use Steam Link on my CCwGTV and those specs will likely make a tangible boost in gaming performance for quality, frame rate, latency, input lag, etc.

    So in my demographic of people gaming with em, I 100% expect it’ll be a popular upgrade.

    The ethernet part is pretty big, overall. Don’t overbook that.


  • The built in ethernet cable seems almost worth it.

    It’s around $15 to $20 to add on a usb c ethernet dongle to the existing CCwGTV dongle if you want high speed connection to it (which you prolly do if you wanna stream 4k or lower latency game with Steam Link )

    Better quality dongles are closer to $25 if you dont want it to crap out.

    So, assuming the onboard ethernet is comparable to a higher end dongle, you’d be looking at closer to $75 to get the same experience with the Older CCwGTV model. ($50 + $25)

    Add in the higher specs and the fact that chaining 2 dongles together looks ugly as fuck and easier to fail, and the +$25 remaining ($75 -> $100) is not actually too horrible of an extra price.

    $100 for a better form factor (the dongle does look bad), better specs, built in ethernet, it’s not terrible ngl.

    I game with Steam Link all the time on my CCwGTV so I 100% am gonna spend the money on better specs so I feel like I’m taking better advantage of my 4060ti I’m Steam linking to.

    If it has a better bluetooth card too that’s gonna be even bigger, better wireless controller range is awesome.

    That extra RAM is not something to scoff at.

    The extra storage is kinda dumb though, prolly the real cash grab. I doubt anyone was maxing out their CCwGTV storage capacity o_O




  • Why is this being framed this way.

    Rebranding the next gen of your product isn’t “killing” it, people are so fucking clickbaitable.

    It’s the same product, just next gen with better specs abd they’re going with a new simpler brand name than “Chromecast with Google TV” (yes that’s the actual product name before) and instead the next gen is named “Google TV Streamer”

    It’s the exact same thing, and all existing hardware will keep working.

    Chromecasts are standalone and effectively just running a modified version of Android. They can’t really be “killed” as they work over local network. Theoretically any chromecast will last forever as it’s functionality is based off a specified open source protocol, so as long as you have a device that can output it (cast), you can cast to your chromecast.

    So it’s impossible to “kill”. I have a gen 1 chromecast that still 100% works fine today.

    Newer Chromecasts ahem Google TVs just have more features, like apps you can install and sideload.

    People are dumb for falling for this clickbait title.


  • Exponential growth, thats about all there is to it. Advancing from clacking rocks to hunting deer is actually already a huge advancement.

    Those 190k years in caves however werent non-advancing. A lot of advancements happened over those years.

    Fires, wheels, knot tying, ceramics, pottery, grains, hunting, animal husbandry, medicine, language, art, music, rope…

    Also, 10k years is after we gained writing of various forms to store information.

    Keep in mind thats at the stage of shit like egypt, the great pyramids, etc. We were waaaaay beyond “cavemen” at that point. We already had trade routes, cities, nations, countless languages, doctors, etc.

    The big issue was before that point, all our forms of storing information were just not able to stand the test of time very well, is all. We stopped being “cavemen” way before that mark though.


  • Unfortunately this is false. They’ve tested this and monkeys establish captilasm extremely fast when they come to understand currency as a concept.

    https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/503550

    They would exchange the currency, steal it, gamble with it, purchase with it, and even do some prostitution for it.

    Edit: To people responding that this isnt capitalism, it actually is, in this case the privatized controller of wealth were the researchers distributing “payment” to the monkeys at a fixed rate, as well as having experiments where the monkeys had to pull levers before they would receive rewards either to themselves or later, altruistically to other monkeys.

    You would know that if you took the time to read up on the study before responding…





  • This seems like it has pretty powerful potential for space flight.

    Being able to aggressively min max packaging materials to secure materials could be critical for reducing payload sizes on shuttles, where every single individual gram counts.

    Each kg of packaging is thousands of dollars to get into orbit, so that’s really appealing.

    I’d be curious to see if Amazon is also working on box packing algorithms for maximizing fitting n parcels across x delivery trucks.

    IE if you have 10,00 boxes to move, what’s the fewest delivery trucks you can fit those boxes into as fast as possible too, which introduces multiple complex concepts. Both packing to maximize space usage and the order you pack it in to minimize armature travel time…

    I’d put money down amazon is perfecting this algorithm right now, and has been for awhile.