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  • Your best bet is to get one of those hubs that has more ports and just not use them. The extra ports usually share bandwidth to some degree with the USB ports anyway. Also, I would highly encourage you to buy a used enterprise hub. The WD22TB4 from Dell is a good option. It has two Thunderbolt passthrough ports and can be found on eBay for about US$100.






  • thejevans@lemmy.mltoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldFOSS Alternative to Chromecast?
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    2 months ago

    Your best bet is to just avoid the need altogether. I use an nvidia shield with clipious, smarttube, and jellyfin. There is a qobuz app that is okay and a USB Media Player Pro that is pretty bad. I haven’t tried any apps for subsonic streaming.

    I’d bet there is a tidal app, but I think tidal also integrates with Plex?

    For when I want to “cast” a random video file, I use VLC on my PC and on my shield to stream to the TV, and it works well enough.

    I haven’t found a good solution to have similar functionality as Google cast for other people to use, but none of my guests have ever been upset that it wasn’t available.