Hey all! I just wanted to write a quick tutorial for a method for "converting" your cable box into a gaming PC. I've been procrastinating writing this for years, sorry about that. Let's get this done, then, shall we?
First of all, you won't be physically turning your cable box into a gaming PC. Instead, this method assumes that you have the following conditions...
1) You live with people (probably your parents) who only have a vague idea at best as to how the internet works and they have a cable subscription.
2) They rely on this cable subscription to get all of the content that they want to watch.
3) You want a gaming PC and you're willing to hand them a sales pitch that is heavily backed by logic.
The sales pitch you're going to give them goes something like this: "I can axe your entire cable bill, forever, while you sacrifice nothing. The only thing I need is for you to buy me a roughly $1,000 PC. What I'm offering is worth 20 times that amount since you will never have to pay a cable bill ever again.".
Now, obviously, they might be flabbergasted to hear that, and they may want some proof. Here's the real trick to this lifehack...you can prove it to them by ordering the Fire TV for $40, then installing Kodi, and then modifying Kodi with a custom build. (Look it up, I can't link them here.) "But Wolvenreign!", you hypothetically cry, "How are you supposed to get a gaming PC out of this deal if they buy a FireTV and you give them the entire hack straight off the bat?!". It's simple, my friends. You're showing them the modified Kodi which will end up replacing their cable box, true. But the part where the gaming PC comes in is lightning fast local FTP content streaming where the FTP server is hosted on the gaming PC.
Quite simply, you show them the Kodi as a sample and then say that if they want the full package, including absolutely instant streaming to their Fire TV, they need to get you a PC that is capable of that.
Now you and I might know full well that you don't actually need a PC of this power just to be a dinky little FTP streaming server. But your customers don't. They find the idea of you needing a computer with beefy capabilities, especially one with a powerful GPU, in order to stream to their TV to be a logical idea. It's a "market image", you might say.
As far as creating an FTP server on your computer and then configuring it on your Kodi, these two videos will do the trick to teach you how...
And voila! You now have a gaming PC which hosts all of their content and your own big batch of video games. Remember, you're generating an insane amount of value for your customers, it literally is a priceless gift you have given them, do not be shy about pointing this out.
Bonus: If they still use home phones and are stubborn about cancelling them, instead of trying to convince them how useless home phones are, just show them this video...
If the home phone subscription is with someone like AT&T who does both home phone and mobile phone service, instead of using a SIM card from T-Mobile, call AT&T and have them transfer the home phone number to a SIM card that they'll mail you. Other than that, follow the directions of the video to a T, and you'll end up increasing your internet speed for the same price or cheaper than what you're paying now as well. Note that you can increase the internet speed regardless of whether or not you're replacing the home phone, just use your cable replacement as the leverage instead of the home phone replacement.
You can also use the leverage method to renegotiate your cell phone bill prices and lower them substantially.
I'll edit this later, but for now, enjoy these rather hefty life hacks! Ta-ta!
First of all, you won't be physically turning your cable box into a gaming PC. Instead, this method assumes that you have the following conditions...
1) You live with people (probably your parents) who only have a vague idea at best as to how the internet works and they have a cable subscription.
2) They rely on this cable subscription to get all of the content that they want to watch.
3) You want a gaming PC and you're willing to hand them a sales pitch that is heavily backed by logic.
The sales pitch you're going to give them goes something like this: "I can axe your entire cable bill, forever, while you sacrifice nothing. The only thing I need is for you to buy me a roughly $1,000 PC. What I'm offering is worth 20 times that amount since you will never have to pay a cable bill ever again.".
Now, obviously, they might be flabbergasted to hear that, and they may want some proof. Here's the real trick to this lifehack...you can prove it to them by ordering the Fire TV for $40, then installing Kodi, and then modifying Kodi with a custom build. (Look it up, I can't link them here.) "But Wolvenreign!", you hypothetically cry, "How are you supposed to get a gaming PC out of this deal if they buy a FireTV and you give them the entire hack straight off the bat?!". It's simple, my friends. You're showing them the modified Kodi which will end up replacing their cable box, true. But the part where the gaming PC comes in is lightning fast local FTP content streaming where the FTP server is hosted on the gaming PC.
Quite simply, you show them the Kodi as a sample and then say that if they want the full package, including absolutely instant streaming to their Fire TV, they need to get you a PC that is capable of that.
Now you and I might know full well that you don't actually need a PC of this power just to be a dinky little FTP streaming server. But your customers don't. They find the idea of you needing a computer with beefy capabilities, especially one with a powerful GPU, in order to stream to their TV to be a logical idea. It's a "market image", you might say.
As far as creating an FTP server on your computer and then configuring it on your Kodi, these two videos will do the trick to teach you how...
And voila! You now have a gaming PC which hosts all of their content and your own big batch of video games. Remember, you're generating an insane amount of value for your customers, it literally is a priceless gift you have given them, do not be shy about pointing this out.
Bonus: If they still use home phones and are stubborn about cancelling them, instead of trying to convince them how useless home phones are, just show them this video...
If the home phone subscription is with someone like AT&T who does both home phone and mobile phone service, instead of using a SIM card from T-Mobile, call AT&T and have them transfer the home phone number to a SIM card that they'll mail you. Other than that, follow the directions of the video to a T, and you'll end up increasing your internet speed for the same price or cheaper than what you're paying now as well. Note that you can increase the internet speed regardless of whether or not you're replacing the home phone, just use your cable replacement as the leverage instead of the home phone replacement.
You can also use the leverage method to renegotiate your cell phone bill prices and lower them substantially.
I'll edit this later, but for now, enjoy these rather hefty life hacks! Ta-ta!
