…Why? It’s just telling companies they can get support + white-labeling for a fee, and asking you keep their silly little character in a tongue-and-cheek manner.
Just like they say, you can modify the code and remove for free if you really want, they’re not forbidding you from doing so or anything
The Google Casting protocol is proprietary (and indeed the outage was caused because the system that verifies a receiver’s “legitimacy” broke down lol) so AFAIK there is no Open Source solution that can replicate the functionality. At least so far.
To be fair they were already cramming AI everywhere before this no? I recall seeing new phones over there launch with a bunch of AI hoopla, guess they just changed the model
I’ve seen a couple of these on AliExpress and it the only thing stopping me from buying one is the fear of battery life sucking.
You should blame the big tech giants and their callous disregard for everyone else for the Enshittification, not the folks just trying to keep their servers up.