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How I Got Sunshine/Moonlight Working On My Headless Windows 11 PC

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This is less a tutorial and more a collection of notes on how I managed to get this working, mainly because I figure at some point I'm going to reinstall Windows and I'll need to know how I did things. Unless I go ahead with my plan to install Linux, in which case I won't need these notes. Anyway, let's dig in... Step The First - Install Sunshine Source:  https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine Just... Follow the instructions there. Download the thing, install the thing, set a password, and get moving. Step The Second - Install The Virtual Display Driver Source:  https://github.com/itsmikethetech/Virtual-Display-Driver Again, follow the instructions on the page. One step they leave out is edit the option.txt  to include the resolution/refresh rate you want. I suppose you could go so far as to remove all the ones you won't  be using, but I didn't because maybe Windows will need to fall back to a different resolution because it's being weird. But make sure the ...
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Retro-Tech : iBook SE

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What is it about typing on an old keyboard that makes everything feel alright? I am writing this on an Apple Graphite clamshell iBook from... sometime between mid 1999 and late 2000. I could try and find the exact year, but I'm not sure it'd be worth it. Suffice to say it's an old machine, but it still runs just fine for what it is. It's not super capable by modern standards - it has wifi, but can't talk to a modern network. It has a browser, but it can't handle modern encryption. It's got an optical drive, but no burner, and can only handle CDs. It has USB, but it's 1.1 and slow enough to make any large files take forever. The monitor is color, but it's limited to a low resolution. Text looks great, but graphics? Eh. But the keyboard! It's a bit small compared to a modern laptop keyboard, but it's nice and springy. The keys have a nice curve to them, they have a decent amount of travel, and it's genuinely comfortable to type ...
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