I understand why they want it to be needed but it absolutely is not. Casting exists because the complex handoff scheme enables them to weaponize the system against the owner of the devices. Plain streaming with a source and playback destination is massively simpler and no handoff needed and most of all no DRM to weaponize against the owners.

It absolutely is useless technology. There is simpler and faster technology that cannot be weaponized against the owner of the device. That technology is direct streaming from a source. The complex handoff that takes place in casting is idiotic and unnecessary and again only exists because it is weaponized against the owner of the devices.

Casting always was a technology that was never needed. Streaming from device to device is simpler in every way, but does not allow big media the control they insist on. Casting and the entire mechanism of having the device being casted to have to have direct access to the media source is idiotic and only exists because they insist on a extra level of weaponizing devices against the owners and policing what you can do with your own devices.

There is no way to fix something that is flawed in concept. Everything about unity is screwed up right down to the intended design. Touch centric interfaces have no place in real computing for real work. Touch is acceptable only on consumption only devices. The massive romper room icons, the inability to handle multi-screen in certain configs (like over and under) and so many more usability nightmares that just cant be fixed because its broken to its core. Phone interfaces don't belong on real desktops.

With atomic packaging systems, I feel like computing is in a weird place where it has taken on all of the bad characteristics that are both a step backwards towards the days of DLL hell and a step forwards to today where there is almost no tweaking and debloat attempted by devs because powerful hardware and memory make it unnecessary in their eyes.

I don't WANT 53 copies of the same library on my system. I don't want slow startup because applications to have to be unpacked before they can be used. I don't want applications that make it difficult or impossible to share data between applications. I don't want applications that don't theme properly. I don't want applications that weaponize themselves against the owner of the machine and try to dictate how the app is used like Windows apps do.

I simply do not want atomic packaging systems. I want traditionally installed apps that only put one copy of the library on my system and I want to be able to share data between apps easily and efficiently without having to install additional apps from the same package manager to be able to use them... for example for gaming, If you want to use Lutris and choose the version that comes from an atomic package manager, you also have to install a SECOND version of all your 3d libraries for your video card that are available to the atomic Lutris. Fuck that, fuck the entire idea of that type of system.

For most bands the exact same sound from recorded is impossible because there are usually fewer musicians involved in the live act. Less or no backup singers. Recorded music frequently has overdubs of the lead singer basically singing their own backup. Patently impossible for live music. I don't go to see them play, I listen to the music. I couldn't care less about the visual aspect of a band.

Ah... so Van Halen, Manchester Orchestra and others are shitty bands... I just hate live music because it will never sound as good as the recorded music. I listen to music for the sound, not the show. Bands travel with fewer musicians that are typically on the recorded tracks. Many bands even overdub their own lead singer multiple times, completely impossible in a live environment and I hate the music when it doesn't sound EXACTLY like the music I fall in love with. That is not due to a bad band.

Just because it is AI doesn't mean that it is slop. Currently almost all of it is, but if the content is good, what does it matter if the voice or person on screen is not real? Judge content for the content, not for how it is created. Same for recorded music vs live music. I hate live music, especially when it is a band I am intimately familiar with and love to the degree that I know every little riff and sound from the drum kit, even breathing and intonation from the singer matter and when it differs from what I know, it FEELS like a cheap cover band playing my fave songs, or maybe even AI doing it. It is about the content and the finished product. Yes, in the current state AI is horrible, but it doesn't have to be and it isnt the fault of AI itself. It is the people controlling it that put out the slop.

I am not against lab grown meat in the sense that I would refuse to eat it, what I am against is calling it meat. The definition of meat is the flesh of an animal. If it is grown in a lab, it is protein approximating meat, but is NOT meat. They should not be allowed to call it that. In the same vein, frozen dinners and restaurant food should not be able to call beef, chicken or fish or any other thing those things unless the things are 100% those minus spices. If there are any substitutes or fillers or meat glues, they should be forced to call it something different. In reality it is pressed and formed meat like substance that started with the real thing as a base.

I don't think it is even that. I think it is just company Kool-aid that is soul crushing. I have always been a self motivator and have excelled in my career, but when company Kool-aid stuff starts happening it makes me want to run for the hills. If people don't want to work without this stupid shit, FIRE THEM, but don't make the rest of us who are working and doing well without that crap have to partake in it. It is demeaning and insulting.

Or any non-self hosted cloud in general, get what they deserve. We are using internally hosted Zimbra collaboration and Nextcloud. Screw Microshaft. We are happily saving hundreds of thousands JUST ON EMAIL ALONE.

Hosted SaaS always has been and always will be a scam. On-prem, self provided web services are fine. I bend over backwards to avoid putting anything in hosted cloud services and it has worked well. In my current company, which is a huge fast food franchise, we were given approval to do our own thing. In 7 years we have saved over $6.4 million by doing everything in house.

This is the weaponization of security software against the owner of the machine that we have all said was coming. Security is nice, but security that works against the wishes of the owner of the machine is exactly the opposite of that and is, by definition, malware.

The definition of malware is software that works against the wishes of the owner. The owner should have ultimate control over it. When a manufacturer has more control over the device than the owner, it is pre-loaded with malware even if that software is official software. The only way this shit will ever stop is a consumer bill of rights that guarantees that hardware and software are separate entities and that the owner should always have access to change or alter the software on that device without the manufacturer going full evil and trying their damdest to brick it where you can't use it.

Digital is perfect only for the parts that are not thrown away. Digital algorithms frequently parts of data streams that it deems as not necessary. Analog typically has the entire stream even if not useful or is considered noise. It comes from a different perspective of the definition of perfect. There is more than one. Digital is not complete, therefor imperfect.