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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • Honestly, it seems kind of moot if it already works in the browser. It’s a negligible amount of work to make an app use a browser engine to run offline to run their stack, but some heavy lifting to do a direct port to any specific OS without an adjoining framework to help in the cosmetics of everything.

    That being said, they could also use a unified framework to do one release for every OS, which again is pretty much the same as making offline work for anywhere.

    My fear is they do something stupid like build in GTK, and then QT users have UI problems, or vice versa. Seems easier to just go with a unified (non-electron) kit that runs everywhere the same way.




  • Sorry, let me clarify some terminology and facts to kind of unconfuse things:

    “Casting” is a very specific term used for using a network to send audio or video to a device like a TV or Stereo.

    Casting over Bluetooth is not a thing, but Bluetooth audio is a thing. That should help in the future to know that if you mean video, you need a network.

    So first steps if you’re staying in a guest house:

    1. get on the WiFi if they provided that for you
    2. Open whatever app and see if it then shows a Cast button for you

    If it doesn’t show the cast button, perhaps the TV isn’t capable. You may want to search whatever the model or brand of TV it is and find guides to using whatever casting solution they have.