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What are you just done with after giving it so many chances? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 17 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Today I'm donating my streaming sticks. I got a ONN brand 2k one I bought for 15 and I got an Amazon Firestick 4K I got for $3 from a thrift store because they didn't know what it was.

And I love the concept of stream sticks, I really do. Too fucking bad that corporate interests got in the way and now everything has to have a bundle of ads at every damn turn. Not even some of the things I'm subscribed to is free from ads because this is the future apparently, we're here.

Shame because I don't want to let these go and even if I were to subscribe to Netflix's ad-free subscription, that's only one source. Why do that when I can just grab a long HDMI cable, plug it into my desktop and to my TV and I can watch everything that's there, without ads because of the extensions I use to block ads.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I hear you on the streaming sticks. 10 years ago, you could throw a Chromecast in your suitcase, plug it into a hotel TV, and cast anything you wanted from your phone. Now, if you try to do that, you have to set the Chromecast up through the Google home app, tell it what "room" it's in, but then you can't cause you arent at your "home", so you have to set up a new "home", and then that doesn't usually work, so you just quit and read a book instead.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago

Enshittification at it's finest!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

The way I solved this was by setting up a hotspot on my phone with the same SSID as my home network. The Chromecast doesn't know the difference.