lesser known android secret, a phone with USB3 may support DisplayPort alternate mode,
you dont need DEX to use your phone like PC, just connect your phone to usb dock that has HDMI output, you can control the phone with mouse and have audio/video output to LCD
downside is for android it's mirroring, my op7t 8t already can mirror screen content to large display, up to 4K 60FPS with compatible usb hub

Native Android desktop mode never made it out of beta stage yet, until now it's still hidden inside developer mode encumbered with broken sheets

yes, many mid-end phone have USB 2.0, they probably want to shave off the cost but dang it's already 2025 lmao, we already have USB 4, Oculink...
i mean for casual user, they probably don't care as long as it support fast charge and have USB-C

If you don't want to deal with hassle buying a tiny PC with N100 or pi, for me, i will just bring my old phone that support USB3 and i solved all the problem you're facing lol.
if you have spare cash but none of your phone support USB 3 just buy tiny Pc with n100, straightforward can use

Setting up Raspi can be daunting if you never installed linux before.

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Youtube now went all-in AV1, welp google does not want to pay MPEG-LA licensing cost for using h265 and even the upcoming h266
h264 will be last MPEG codec they use for the rest of the older devices.




you can play with raspi hardware but need to make sure the model you buy support AV1 hardware decoding, or force youtube plays in h264 via h264ify but it's an extension and only works with chrome based browser.

otherwise you may not be able to play smoothly at 1080p, only 720 or even 360p only.

If your iGP support AV1, you can even play youtube AV1 up to 8K video with little to no hiccup due to the decoding process offloaded to GPU.

This post has been edited by 1024kbps: Oct 12 2025, 01:00 AM

literally 10 second google
https://minixpc.com/blogs/news/beelink-ser4...teardown-review

for review info gathered by google, it's mixed,
if scared of getting lemon, get one from local shop, big shop i mean, not shady one looks like will close within a month, with 2 years warranty....