[Cialug] Chromebook as Thin Client

[Barry Von Ahsen]

is the linode to host the content?  then stream to the laptop or to the TV?  if everyone is going to stream to a local laptop, I'd just use my phone which I already have and is already charged

for TV content, I've had great success with a file server in the basement running plex + chromecast.  I do have a PC for random dodgy soccer streams and an apple TV, but chromecast gets the most use.  I use android, so chromecast works best, but apple TV/air play may be better if you're an iPhone user


-barry


> On Aug 8, 2016, at 10:49 PM, jim kraai <jimgkraai at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Was reading this
> http://www.techspot.com/review/1218-affordable-40-thread-xeon-monster-pc/
> "affordable," heh, and reminding myself why I hate turning the living room
> into a server room.  (Retreating from the family to hide in another room
> for the evening is a worse thought for me, and using linoden for this is a
> separate discussion.)
> 
> I've been enjoying using my laptop from my comfy recliner for a few years.
> My laptop is about ready to give up the ghost, so it's the right time to
> start planning.
> 
> Why can't I have both?  Who here has been doing this already for years?
> 
> Any reasons why the whole family couldn't simultaneously do this?  Would we
> even need to be in the house, as in, couldn't I access such a thing from
> anywhere on the interwebs with a few M/s throughput?  Other than a dusty
> PS4, there's no gaming to speak of at the Kraai house.  Boring place.
> 
> Yes, I would install Linux, kind of, more likely a hypervisor with VMs. Or
> the fastest FreeDos _ever_!  Next I'll need reliable storage.  I hear
> backblaze is still selling stuff.   Well I'm off to finance this fantasy
> with lotto scratchers ...
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