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Donger is my middle name

I do not know.

ITT: People who don't know as much as me.

All they killed was the branding. The Chromecast with Google TV was such a far cry from an OG Chromecast that it was stupid for them to have the same name.

OG Chromecast could only cast and did not have a remote. The CCwGT did still support casting, but also had a remote and a real UI.

The TV streamer is just the CCwGT in a fancy shell with probably a more powerful processor. I'll bet money that it still supports casting, and can only do pretty much exactly what the CCwGT could do.

You can install LineageOS on one of the models of Chromecast for Android TV.

It did email really well. And it had the best VPN. Didn't like the calendar or drive Didn't touch the password manager.

As a userbase grows, companies have 2 options to make it more competitive.

More services Lower prices

And no company chooses the later.

And that's how you get bloat

Drop a link to a few places people ask tech questions and I will do my part to contribute

I stopped using Brave when and because of crypto bs.

I stopped using proton a few months ago because the price was just too high and my need too small. I needed a reasonably priced family plan for email on my domain, not another cloud drive.

I think this decision will hurt them as others come to this conclusion

For sure.

At some point, your services could easily warrent it. If you learn it early, it makes it much easier to organize your services and share them with others if you decide to.

Also, if you do decide to use a domain name, you probably won't be able to use it internally to your network. If you use Adguard, you can use DNS rewrite to only direct your traffic to your server when you're in your network.

Also, personally, I use nginx, but I'm more than happy to give you any advice on setup or reverse proxy.

I'm imagining that I'd just use whatever grapheneos keyboard, or Florisboard, which I prefer for peck typing over Gboard.

My only problem is finding a time to switch. I need my phone for work, so I need to sit down, backup my data, install GOS and restore, then spend like 5 hours learning the new systems. Things like sandboxing Google are nice until I'm lost in BFE without Google Maps or OSMand+ because I didn't properly set up.

Android is still great. The Pixel phone is the best Android phone by several metrics. Usability and Camera come to mind. Android TV is by far the best TV interface. Just because it's sideloadable and decently usable. Low bar, but here we are.

Gboard is good. The pixel launcher is good enough to not bother switching off. The Google Home certainly turns my lights on and off. And as soon as Google opens RCS, I'm leaving Google Messages.

But that's the only Google stuff I use. And I'm thinking of switching to Graphene OS.

The question here isn't "will this work".

The question is "what will it take to make this work"