r/techforlife

My boyfriend and I live in the same apartment, and we've been wanting to "stream" for each other for a while now. Id love to be able to take what's happening on my laptop screen, and cast it to a dumb tv, or a laptop on the same wifi. The tv isn't on the same WiFi as the laptops because it does not have any WiFi at all

I expect my boyfriend will prefer to use his own laptop screen rather than the tv screen because the tv has a blueing problem (haven't replaced bc money)

so what gadget or program would work well for this? how would I do this? please excuse me if this is a silly/easy question, ive been in and out of the hospital for a few months now and my brain isn't working the best. I wanted to find a solution to this without my boyfriend so I could surprise him!

I’ve tried multiple tools, but I ended up sticking with just a few.

My work isn’t just in the store. I also help with monitoring, sales, trackers, inventory, and some of our online stuff. I’m not an expert at these things, and honestly, a lot of this wasn’t something I originally knew much about. I just started exploring different tools because they made some of the work easier, and I ended up learning along the way. And i decided to let go some tools that i barely use now.

One of the tools I still use is ChatGPT. I’m just on the free plan and mostly use it for personal research, asking questions, and whenever I’m trying to understand something I don’t know much about. Gemini is another one. I didn’t really appreciate it that much before, but I started using it more after our company got a subscription (our company support the team that much, hehe). I’ve been playing around with it, especially with Google Sheets and some simple automation. I actually learned quite a bit from that.
truthscan is one I don’t use that often but I think we need it. We have online shop too, not only physical store, most of them are just refunds, orders, and inquiries, and we don’t really get that many complaints. when something looks suspicious, I use it as an extra check.
Canva. I don’t use it every day either, but I can’t let this one go. I sometimes need it for presentations, announcements, simple promotional materials, or visuals for our online stuff. I’m not a designer, so having templates that I can work from saves me a lot of time.

I guess after trying so many tools, I realized I don’t really need to keep up with every new AI tool that comes out. I’d rather stick with the ones that actually fit the work I do.

Anyone else here tried a bunch of AI tools and eventually just stuck with a few?

Hope these steps help before consigning your old machine to the cupboard or spending thousands on a new model

1. Use your laptop plugged in (and turn it off and on again)
2. Switch off battery-boosting settings - Energy Saver mode uses multiple tactics to reduce battery consumption, including lowering maximum power
3. Stop applications from opening on start-up - If your laptop is slow when it first starts up, it may be because a whole bunch of apps have been given the green light to wake up with it.
4. Free up storage space - Generally, once you hit around 15 to 20 per cent of remaining storage space, you can expect to see performance slow
5. Reset/clean wipe your laptop - Make sure you’ve backed up any data you want to keep
6. Check for and remove excessive dust build-up - Any laptop that uses fans (which is most of them) will have its cooling performance limited by dust build-up
7. Upgrade your memory - Upgrading your laptop’s RAM can have a major impact on performance, particularly if your system has 8GB or, much worse, just 4GB
8. Switch to SSD storage - The biggest laptop upgrade I’ve made is moving from a storage hard drive to something called a solid-state drive (SSD)