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Comment Straight Answer (Score 1) 127

Let's see if I understood the question right: You want a receiver device that plugs into a single USB C plug on a TV, draws power from it, and delivers received wireless video through it?

For the reason you don't see these, look at some TVs. How many have USB C video inputs? Very few. How many have HDMI inputs? All of them. Most also have a USB 2.0 port that can deliver power, and if not, it isn't a big deal to run a wire to a phone charger -- the goal of wireless video isn't to have no wires attached to your stationary TV, it's to have no wires attached to the portable device sending video to it.

USB C on the sending end (and still HDMI on the receiving end) is a more reasonable request. Many laptops have it now, and having a single plug to connect on that end is more valuable than on the TV end where you plug it in once and leave it.

Comment Re:Flat Earthers are the perfect counterexample (Score 1) 308

No, you can't convince many flat earthers to change their minds. But their videos are roundly laughed at by almost everyone else and make great fuel for Professor Stick videos.

Any sufficiently outlandish conspiracy theory will eventually out-satire any attempts to satirize it. The better response is to allow people to see how ridiculous it is for themselves. Hiding it only makes people seek it out more because they aren't allowed to see it, and seeking it out makes them more receptive to it.

Comment Re: hmmm... (Score 1) 212

This is wise. However if Bitcoin tanks, the flood of used GPUs on eBay will drive the resale price pretty low.

And while you may underclock/undervolt/underload your cards to reduce wear, other miners do the opposite, and this is going to translate to an immediate value drop for any listing that says it was ever used for mining.

Comment Re: Irrelevant (Score 1) 116

This. And even running bloated modern software, a Pi 3 or compute stick plugged into a keyboard, mouse and monitor would be sufficient for most of my day to day business and casual computing tasks. If you already have a suitable screen, the device itself plus a cheap keyboard and mouse are quite affordable too.

Cheap used laptops are sufficient for everyday tasks as well, at least after replacing the aging HDD with an SSD. But that brings the price higher than Pi 3+MicroSD+keyboard+mouse.

Our phones are powerful enough too - if only there were cheap laptop-like shells we could slot them into, and a good desktop interface it would switch into.

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