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Plug your laptop directly in via HDMI/DP. Buy an air mouse/keyboard to control it from your couch. Here's an example: https://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Keyboard
by bicdez 4y ago
Plug your laptop directly in via HDMI/DP.
Buy an air mouse/keyboard to control it from your couch.
Here's an example: https://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Keyboard-W1-Multifunctional-Projector/dp/B0787Z1C2G/ https://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Keyboard-W1-Multifunctional-...
The flexible sovereign combo of a general purpose computer and a user agent.
I use a forever-docked ThinkPad x230 under my TV, which can do 1080p and 802.11n (5GHz).
- fein 4y agoI second the wireless mouse/ keyboard and will add that I bought a trackball mouse just for this, and it's a wonderful fit. No worrying about a proper surface for moving a mouse around.
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- gniv 4y agoThanks for the tip. It works with both an HDMI cable and wirelessly via AirPlay.
- pessimizer 4y agoI've been doing this for many years. The latest incarnation is an Intel NUC, which you can also use for other random home server stuff, and for vintage console emulation. What we need is a good, simple dumbtv interface for a computer with network access and a DVB card/stick. One that can also bring up a full-screen browser window to deal with streaming service DRM. Have been considering getting something together with rust+gstreamer starting by cloning my old Philips dumbtv interface while using mplayer/mpv hotkey standards for everything else. The all-encompassing, endlessly complicated yet somehow still inflexible Kodi is a bad solution for people like me. Let's start by making a dumbtv out of a cheap linux box + a monitor.