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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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NVidia Sheield to Apple TV - Why I Switched

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I originally bought the NVidia Shield because I needed a device that could do HBO Max and Twitch - and one of my consoles.  Like, I don't mind streaming stuff on the console, but the interface for doing so on both the Xbox and the PS4 is garbage so I avoid it when I can. I also really liked the idea of using it for retro-games, since it's got access to some decent emulators via the Google Play store. The problem was it felt a bit jank. The "channels" on the main screen didn't work as expected, and would randomly go away.  Apps would crash - not regularly, but often enough to be annoying.  I got to the point where I was rebooting the Shield weekly, which isn't a huge deal but it wasn't ideal. Chromecasting to it was laggy as all hell regardless of what was doing the Casting - bad enough that I ended up never bothering to use it.  Apps would occasionally launch in a non-logged in state, prompting for credentials.  Force quitting them and relaunching would fi...
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