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  • I never said there was lock-in, they just do the same thing every other tech giant does nowadays and makes their "products" all integrated to steer people toward them. Chromebooks have native gdrive integration in the file manager. Gsuite apps all come pinned and pre-installed. It, for a long time, had no way to run a browser other than chrome, which itself has all sorts of integrations through your Google acct. That all serves to steer people toward staying in the Google ecosystem and avoid trying to reach out of it if they don't have prior motives toward that.

  • Chromebooks very intentionally push people toward Google drive and Google one for subscription services, and all of the rest of gsuite for data mining. I'm not saying chromebooks are inherently this evil master plan, but don't discount just how much they do push profitable services for Google.

  • They have it all as a subscription model, but it all runs locally. Can't imagine it being any other way either, if I had to upload all of my raws before I could start editing it would take hours from landing at my desk before I could poke at them.

  • I mean I use VLC on my Chromecast but Kodi might work too

  • SMB share on your desktop, connect to that from your fire stick or a Chromecast TV or something, stream files that you already have on your desktop wirelessly