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  • Regardless of budget, I have found the following setup has afforded me all the comfort upsides of mobility and console gaming, with none of the performance downsides.

    1. Build a standard desktop gaming pc to your budget, setting aside ~$150, give or take.

    2. Make sure it’s wired into your network and not using wifi. Setup Steam on it as usual.

    3a. (Console experience) Buy a Google TV with Chromecast, or whatever it’s called now. Install Steam Link app on it and connect it to your gaming pc. Get a Bluetooth compatible Xbox controller, connect it to the chromecast. Enjoy a console experience with your gaming pc. If you have the chromecast on a wired ethernet lime you’ll have maybe 1ms of input lag, very playable.

    3b. (Laptop experience), buy a dirt cheap laptop, install steam on it, use Steam Streaming fu ctionaloty to stream from gaming pc to laptop. If you plug the laptop into ethernet you should have sub 1ms input lag.

    This let’s you get all the horsepower of a gaming pc, at gaming pc hardware prices, but the portability of a laptop and/or couch gaming comfort of a console.

    And since it’s all centralized to your 1 “server” machine, of you make changes in setup A (ie change am in game setting or etc), it’ll persist even if you swap over.

    IE if I change my settings or preferences on the console, I’ll persist that over on my laptop and won’t have to change it again.

    Furthermore no network save game synching needed, no waiting for a game to download a second time, no need to update the fane multiple times, etc.

    It’s all centralized to your own core machine and everything else is just a thin client.

    PS: this works with the Steam Deck too, you can stream from gaming pc to steam deck and use it as a thin client 👍








  • I have no idea what people are fucking up tbh.

    It’s 2 button clicks to cast stuff, I just went and sanity checked.

    The internet is full of disinformation and idiots though so I usually just assume people are the issue, when I have the same hardware and zero issues.

    I don’t think chromecasts have even gotten any kind of major change updates in ages so it’s bizarre for it to change behavior.

    I’m gonna just keep going with “people are dumb” until someone posts some concrete example (IE an actual video) of wtf their issue is.

    The chromecast is designed so simply though that I can’t imagine wtf people are fucking up.



  • I wrote it up elsewhere, but I don’t mind the price point.

    The built in ethernet port covers a lot of that.

    A solid quality ethernet dongle is gonna be $25, so now that’s $75 for the 4k CCwGTV + ethernet.

    So you’re paying $25 extra for the better form factor (2 chained dongles look so bad), the extra ram, better processor, etc

    For some folks that might not matter, but I use Steam Link on my CCwGTV and those specs will likely make a tangible boost in gaming performance for quality, frame rate, latency, input lag, etc.

    So in my demographic of people gaming with em, I 100% expect it’ll be a popular upgrade.

    The ethernet part is pretty big, overall. Don’t overbook that.


  • The built in ethernet cable seems almost worth it.

    It’s around $15 to $20 to add on a usb c ethernet dongle to the existing CCwGTV dongle if you want high speed connection to it (which you prolly do if you wanna stream 4k or lower latency game with Steam Link )

    Better quality dongles are closer to $25 if you dont want it to crap out.

    So, assuming the onboard ethernet is comparable to a higher end dongle, you’d be looking at closer to $75 to get the same experience with the Older CCwGTV model. ($50 + $25)

    Add in the higher specs and the fact that chaining 2 dongles together looks ugly as fuck and easier to fail, and the +$25 remaining ($75 -> $100) is not actually too horrible of an extra price.

    $100 for a better form factor (the dongle does look bad), better specs, built in ethernet, it’s not terrible ngl.

    I game with Steam Link all the time on my CCwGTV so I 100% am gonna spend the money on better specs so I feel like I’m taking better advantage of my 4060ti I’m Steam linking to.

    If it has a better bluetooth card too that’s gonna be even bigger, better wireless controller range is awesome.

    That extra RAM is not something to scoff at.

    The extra storage is kinda dumb though, prolly the real cash grab. I doubt anyone was maxing out their CCwGTV storage capacity o_O




  • Why is this being framed this way.

    Rebranding the next gen of your product isn’t “killing” it, people are so fucking clickbaitable.

    It’s the same product, just next gen with better specs abd they’re going with a new simpler brand name than “Chromecast with Google TV” (yes that’s the actual product name before) and instead the next gen is named “Google TV Streamer”

    It’s the exact same thing, and all existing hardware will keep working.

    Chromecasts are standalone and effectively just running a modified version of Android. They can’t really be “killed” as they work over local network. Theoretically any chromecast will last forever as it’s functionality is based off a specified open source protocol, so as long as you have a device that can output it (cast), you can cast to your chromecast.

    So it’s impossible to “kill”. I have a gen 1 chromecast that still 100% works fine today.

    Newer Chromecasts ahem Google TVs just have more features, like apps you can install and sideload.

    People are dumb for falling for this clickbait title.


  • I’d recommend you actually read the very article and explicitly try and look for a genuine quote where an individual explicitly is quoted as saying Biden should drop out.

    Note how everytime it’s a generalized paraphrase at not an actual quote.

    And interestingly enough all the actual quotes are more along the lines of “He should be doing x”, or etc.

    And even more so many articles capstone at the end with “when asked they re-affirmed support for biden”

    The articles wiggle word their way just enough to subtly imply someone is saying he should drop, yet they can’t manage to find a single actual concrete quote of anyone actually saying it, which shouldn’t be that hard to do.

    That should be a red flag for you that the article is being purposefully vague on purpose.

    Stop falling for the bullshit. Actually read what the article says and look at the quotes, note the dissonance between the quotes and the paraphrasing…


  • This is fundamentally the standard “people are saying…” classic propoganda engine that trump literally used for over 4 years straight.

    Step 1: Trump and/or his team talks about <thing> without any basis, just remarking on it Step 2: News cycles pick it up and remark about Trump remarking on it Step 3: Trump now re-iterates the talking point but this time saying its in the news Step 4: The news once again re-iterates it

    At this point its so obfuscated in layers its hard to pick up the original source being “Trump just bullshitting about nothing” and then it becomes news

    It’s such a tired and classic play its insane that people somehow eight years later are still falling for it.

    Biden did a fucking press conference very clearly stating he is running, I don’t know how the fuck he can be more explicit that this isnt up for discussion, it’s happening, stop fucking spreading some form of implication it isnt. He so very clearly is who the democrats are pushing forward, everything else is propaganda bullshit to make people second guess.