Smart TVs are all well and good, but when ad-focused update lobotomized my new-ish Android TV, we hit a problem.
  • vxx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    23 days ago

    You don’t even need a laptop for all of this, you can use your phone.

    I stream games with it all the time.

    • Teppichbrand@feddit.orgEnglish
      3·
      23 days ago

      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.

      • vxx@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        23 days ago

        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.

        • Teppichbrand@feddit.orgEnglish
          1·
          22 days ago

          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. :)