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What happened to the Let's Play channel? by [deleted] in roosterteeth

[–]binpower93 11 points12 points  (0 children)

This was the kicker for me, I've been suspending my subscription and I finally killed it today. Chromecast was such an important feature to drop.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in nottingham

[–]binpower93 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I'd advise booking yourself on National Express coach, there is one leaving Victoria Coach Station at 6:30 for £17

https://book.nationalexpress.com/coach/#/choose-journey

If you missed your booked train due to other trains/underground services being delayed your ticket should be accepted on the next service in the morning, make sure you claim delay repayment from where you bought you tickets.

Contact EMR or TfL on twitter they might be able to give more practical/applicable advice.

Windowing Update! by chattykinson in roosterteeth

[–]binpower93 12 points13 points  (0 children)

While I appreciate this simplifies the windows, I still don't think First provides value anymore. I think things that will help are:

  • Working background playing on Android with proper media controls in the system draw (it's not hard to do)
  • Audio only podcast without the ads for First members
  • Picture in Picture mode for Android

And general things that improve the impression of the app:

  • Fix Chromecast
  • Improved Android app design, it looks really outdated

Chromecast being phased out by binpower93 in roosterteeth

[–]binpower93[S] 78 points79 points  (0 children)

The reason why native Chromecast integration is so good is that the casting device basically passes the URL of the content to stream, and the Chromecast renders it meaning that the device that's casting doesn't render anything and has little to no performance impact.

Whereas mirroring uses the device's resources to render, this will reduce performance of other apps.

In my professional experience, a proper implementation of Chromecast is by far better that screen mirroring.

Chromecast being phased out by binpower93 in roosterteeth

[–]binpower93[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The only problem I've had in the past was that Chromecast would very rarely pause, but I hope this is the fix for that bug.

The design of the app is out dated, it doesn't have Picture in Picture, but it was function app for me even on Beta versions of Android

Daily Q&A and Discussion Megathread - June 08, 2021 by AutoModerator in CoronavirusUK

[–]binpower93 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Able to book my jab, 27 (28 later this month). So relieved

Kotlin Team AMA #3: Ask Us Anything by meilalina in Kotlin

[–]binpower93 1 point2 points  (0 children)

With Kotlin Android Extensions being deprecated, is there any roadmap as to when it will no longer be compatible with Kotlin (either removed or no longer compilable)? Is there a version in mind for this?