[rektide]

People are amazing. I love this. Adore it. A thread of various awesome enterprising hackers, searching for truth, and using observability & tools to uncover meaning. Then bend reality to their whims & desires. This is the best human spirit. It's a pity technology so often obstructs rather than builds this human mastery. Alas! Never-the-less, humanity persisted. Against the throws of corporate-controlled limiting tech. Break out that wireshark & conquer in the name of freedom! Become great! Be unbounded.

I have huge respect for the Chromecast ecosystem, but there's so many weird prickly points for it. For a while I had a chromecast plugged in to a computer which then variously resent the output. This looks like a great way to do the same but simpler/dumber. One of the specific flaws of Chromecast is that if you stream a video, it can only go to a single device. Meaning my whole home audio does no good. Something like this could help me work-around that limitation. It's great how absurdly flexible these devices are, but it sucks enormous egg that Chromecast apps will only stream in the first place to signed Chromecast devices; this whole thing should be a non-issue I can software workaround. But a hardware workaround like this is adequate.