could worrrk

got neck pain for some reason, gonna see about getting one of those damn my pillows, that shit might work...

watching kung fu movies now that I'm back into the habit these days and getting back into martial arts. I did work very hard as a kid at learning some stuff so to pin me as some complete scrub when it comes to it is just not gonna phase me one bit. I did the best I could with no formal training. Not my fault life went the way it did for me or i'd have done much more.

So it's apparently quite the skill takes years to master that stuff probably a waste to try to get good at this point as I'm getting all old and such.

Don't know the answer to that, maybe so. Maybe I'm over the hill... don't want to believe it...

Too old to become a jedi, yes, yes...

heh, well besides my lingering doubts, I've made some progress with my ambitions to get a functioning stream of star wars working on one of these bigger tvs. I was just stumped about what method to employ, buy a new tv box stream through that, find a damn way to wire a lan line to the tv some how and hook up a cheapy cheap tv box or something... It's not just battlefront I want to do, it's the optimum streaming. I mean if I want tv channels to watch I can just find a streaming site, but optimum ap is legit, we're paying for it, no reason not to just use that and I do like just leaving it running and casually browsing chans. works perfect on my phone, no wifi drops, great picture, watch lots of stuff, get the news, excellent.

So I was thinking well, if I can't hook up a wifi dongle to the tv box (native wifi is a mess), oh boy I know, just use the phone to act as a wifi dongle... turns out it's "possible" but no one, NO ONE, has made a simple tool to just hack it all together and just run... I mean, the only one out there is 10 dollars and I can't even test it to know if it's real, but yeah so far I've come across complicated elite level coding crap to do it, and a paid app that's supposedly going to do it, something so simple and useful as hooking up your phone through usb to a tablet or whatever and tether them is a giant big huge leap to get done and will take a whole course in android and linux coding to figure it out... but eh, don't worry we got ya covered if you want to change your stupid battery icon or whatever, that crap they spent time working on...

 sad to say the hacker scene is absolutely backwards full of nonsense. Like just the fact they don't put a simple on off button on these tv box things is clue number one they have their heads up their ass so firmly... wish I did some better research before purchasing one in such haste, it has a billion problems and just outright isn't made for much more than earning a cheap buck, but I do like that I can carry a gazillion movies and shows anywhere and it can emulate and run al ot of things so as much as it's a piece of garbage it's a useful piece of garbage that keeps me somewhat sane as I go along through a boring day...

Then I remembered i read a site say something about hooking the display up through usb and it just floored me that I didn't realize it already... so stupid. Just use the phone as a tv box, that's all these f'n tv boxes are, they're phones without the phone part.

So I feel like I'm done, right, i got the answer to my problems and yeah yanno it's over, no more bull shit.

well some more bull shit left for sure, but not too bad. I will be using my spare phone to act as a tv box, see how that works. I've already played a bit of steamlink on it and it ran very well at least for a game in the steam library, for battlefront, something got messed up. Don't know if it'll be any good at running non-steam games. Stupid world we live in where every game is bound to different crap.

Had no idea but should have expected that the simple act of using a phone's usb port to convert it to hdmi would be a confounding mess as well. with two different competing technologies trying to essentially do the same shit and different phones requiring one or the other, such asinine garbage. But that's electronics.

If this thing i bought works, which I doubt, we're in good shape anyway. Bought a usb ethernet adaptor too since in my mind, it's a good idea to own one in general and I can just get this darn thing to not be entirely a sad piece of malfunctioning junk and be able to use it to watch cable. The thought crosses to indeed see if there's some kind of plug and play functionality with a wifi dongle but for the love of GOD no one's made it clear in plain text which dongles work with it, it's a giant fucktrip to figure out what the hell you should get and sad sad sad to struggle reading through a bunch of dumbass threads about nothing and go around in circles with people saying essentially "maybe" "depends" fuuuuuuuuuuck me brother, just piss off if you have nothing concrete or substantial to add. Sucks to see so many people dedicated to being pointless and annoying on boards out there.