u/n2play

I'm just going to run Stremio & emulated Tivimate on my PC through an extended monitor with a Windows air mouse keyboard remote; cut out the middlemen, the restrictions, the workarounds, the troubleshooting and call it a day. I was going to get the new Onn when my Walmart gets them in but this weekend my Fire Stick was giving me fits beyond usual so I went and got the Onn from my kitchen TV that I had gotten the day that Amazon update that bricked many people's stick claimed my previous 4K. I only installed Tivimate on it to have some TV until the then just released gen 2 Max I ordered that same day arrived, so I had only used it for Tivimate and YouTube in the kitchen after I moved it back there so had not experienced it beyond that. I decided while waiting for the new Onn that I'd make it my temporary living room box/future backup and set my stuff up on it... I got that experience this weekend, there is no way in hell that I want more.

With my PC I don't care. I have Usenet and my streaming folder with more than I could ever watch and all my LAN stuff. They aren't gonna shut down any of that except some links in my ever rotating bookmarks. I am going to use 3-screen extended. I have a monitor arriving tomorrow, the TV I am using currently as a monitor and my projector. It will be like a computer on each of them doing their own separate thing that I can also drag things between the screens.

Nice thing about the Tivimate and Stremio approach is I can throw them on any device, sign in and they are both ready to go set up with all of my stuff or I can even access all of it but my LAN files with a web browser, so I can watch my stuff at home, sitting in a waiting room, or even on somebody else's device I might use temporarily without installing anything.

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What would you be saying right now if Joe Biden started a war and his son Hunter started a drone business and was given a contract to supply them for it?

I was juggling and struggling with Phone Link, Smart Connect and LocalSend to transfer files between my phone and PC and all of them would pop up issues that I'd have to fix before I could continue far too often for the frequency that I need the ability to transfer files. While using USB wired connection transfer as a fallback was reliable it was inconvenient when I needed to frequently use the phone beyond the wire's length between transfers and too much wear on the USB connector from frequent plugging/unplugging. Yesterday a solution dawned on me that is so much better than ANY of them and it is so embarrassingly simple that I could kick myself for not thinking of it long ago.

1. I made a folder on my PC called To-From Phone and shared it on the LAN and also pinned it to my Quick Access in Windows Explorer.

2. I accessed that folder on my phone using X-plore File Manager (you can use your existing file manager if it has LAN access) and set a shortcut icon for it on my phone's home screen. I renamed that icon To/From PC.

Now anything I download to that folder on either device is instantly available on the other device, quick to find and ready to work with because there is no transfer between them to wait for. For anything already on the devices that I want to share with the other device that is not in the To/-From folder I only need to move or copy it into it using either Windows Explorer on the PC or X-plore on the phone. Bonus: if your phone is low on space you can delete any transfer apps.