The Chromecast was one of the few things I really liked made by Google. I always have one in my travel bag and it's basically like bringing your own home theater to the hotel with you. I had a time where I lived in hotels and AirBnB's for almost a year and this thing was god send.
They have some other device which they want to sell which will replace it, but that one is big and clunky, not meant for traveling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSSI_Ht6Mis
As far as I know you can't host your own signal server which connects to their servers.
I'm using Signal with the rest of the family and most friends.
What I like about Matrix so much is that it can be run fully on your own infrastructure, even the TURN server for VOIP, and you can build the clients from source yourself too.
But I agree that it's quite difficult to use. And until now only my dad and my spouse use it with me because they love me and trust me. But they both always have problems with their clients. It randomly logs out and then they have to login with the password and with the encryption key again. For a long time calling didn't work because I misconfigured the server. Then videos were for the longest time uploaded in full size and anything longer than a few seconds would be rejected. The whole spaces thing is implemented very weirdly so it confuses them. And then the threads are even worse so we can't use them because nobody gets how to do it.
Oh wow, I didn't even know they exist in other languages until I had to google it for this thread in english :D
"The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear"
It's a fictional book.
Most of the time it is not necessary. For the few times I need it, I set up WireGuard on my parents router in Germany and can connect to it.
Same here in Korea.
If we don't discuss the bad things in society, how can we ever hope to fix them?
Look into stoicism, perhaps that philosophy helps you to change your mind about the definition of a well lived life.
Wow, that's quite a roller coaster ride, thanks for sharing!
The annoying one or the cute one? :D
Thanks for mentioning KDE Plasma Big Screen it's an interesting attempt. It's written in Qt, like many of the TV UIs today anyway. I need to check it out.