That said, we don't use the TV much. I sit with family and dogs to watch a movie twice per week, and it is turned off the rest of the time.

And therein lies the difference.

"Video time" here involves two or more people throwing a bunch of 5 to 20 minute videos into a queue from multiple remote devices, and letting them play through.  It's not everyone's use case, for sure.  But it's our use case, and the traditional "cast" interface matches it well.

Sounds like officially supported android subsystem is coming to ChromeOS flex.

That is the one piece its missing. Its a good web terminal, if your hardware supports it you can run linux VMs with almost no effort..  easy install, has drivers that are a pain in the neck with linux ( like apple wifi.. )

i know i know.. google is evil.. but stuff like this is still opensource ( for now at least ) and 'less evil' than the commercial alternatives for the 'average joe' to use.

I still dont get why FlexOS doesn't have Android subsystem baked in, would make it really popular i think.  FydeOS, which is based on chromeOS code did have it ( may never come back however, the project they relied on, shut down )  and x86 pixel books have it ( and other 3rd party x86 chromebooks had it and im sure there are a few still )..  And there are x86 android solutions for linux ( tho it requires wayland.. ick )  So it's not a technical limitation. 

People are stupid.

There is a plugin for Chrome, that is pretty much now dead due to manifest changes since it needed high level access to the page. ( was far more than a simple ad-block )  Aside from the normal complaints saw one today " i cant believe its even affected in chromium"   Um.. lol.   Ill give them a little slack on something like brave, if you dont have the sense to ask, you dont know, but chromium? really?

And another did not understand that for the most part, if you change browsers any particular page basically looks the same..  they seemed surprised..   

Many cant figure out why this app isn't available for the 'android' app that goes along with the web page. "its going to the same site"  um.... no, its a freaking web browser plugin...

They all need to get their phone out and go back to tiktok, they are just wasting our time with posts.. and no i don't expect them to be experts or something, but geesh use some logic.

Still say there needs to be an "existence test". If you fail base level intelligence and logic questions,  you become fertilizer.

Go residents! 

Short version is its the story about people up in town giving google the finger about a datacenter being dropped into their back yards and wiping out more farmland. Unfortunately its not really "over and done" in the bigger picture, as the concrete machine will win in the end, since this state has declared war on nature, farms, trees.   But, its nice to at least win once in a while and piss them off, even if its short term.

https://futurism.com/future-society/residents-shut-down-google-data-center