I want my smart Android TV to be dumb again
I want my smart Android TV to be dumb again
Smart TVs are all well and good, but when ad-focused update lobotomized my new-ish Android TV, we hit a problem.
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I have an old laptop with Linux Mint hooked to my TV. Firefox with some bookmarks to different streaming services, Freetube with subscriptions, sunshine/moonlight to my gaming PC and emulators to play some retro adventures with my kids. I remote controll it with KDE Connect from my phone. Works great!
I used to fiddle with Kodi on a Raspberry Pi, but the laptop is so simple and easy to set up, I don't see myself going back.You don't even need a laptop for all of this, you can use your phone.
I stream games with it all the time.
My phone doesn't have HDMI, I don't know how to share the screen with my TV. Plus I have an USB drive with a lot of movies attached to the computer.
You can plug one of these things into the USB-C port of your phone and it basically turns it into a little PC.
Edit: My phone is old and was cheap, so I use an active USB-C to Hdmi converter.
This looks like it costs more than my old laptop, which I saved from becoming e-waste. But I tend to forget we're already living in the future and hubs like this exists. So, thanks for reminding me, I'll look into it. :)