Shudder. I had this weird brand laptop... Sotec IIRC and there just wasn't a modline that ever got it all right.
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Xserver... Somehow trying to find the magic string of letters and numbers that made your screen work.
The trouble for me was always getting people to use the controllers. I had some success with some family members using bubbleupnp on their Android phones. But the separation between sources, renderers and controllers is a little confusing for non technical people
DLNA is going to be your best bet, but it's such a deep and convoluted rabbit hole. There's a lot of ways to configure a setup.
They have a browser plug-in. I use it on Firefox on my desktop and on my Android phone. My uses it on Chrome on both as well.
I started using Kagi. Yeah, I have to pay for it. But we're paying for Google too, kagi is just more honest about how.
To be fair a hotplate could play games better than a p4 and do it while staying cooler.
Isn't it more like a network of several billion dumb computers?
I have a box with 10 old laptops that I keep around, just for that. Unreal tournament 2004, Insane, Brood Wars and all the Id classics. I don't get to set it up a lot, but when I do it's always a hit.
Made me think of the first season of Halt and Catch Fire.