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Mike Wieger

Mike Wieger

Mike Wieger, JD is Senior Vice President of Mergers & Acquisitions at Carson Group in Omaha and a longtime Home Gadget Geeks podcast guest (@WiegerTech) covering homelab and consumer tech.

Sep 19, 2026

35:04
What's number two? What do you wanna talk about?
35:06
Yeah, so, so number two is, is for gamers.
35:08
And, and I think I might have briefly mentioned this, uh, on a past episode, but I wanna circle back to it just because I've been using it a ton lately and it's, it's just one of those things that once you know about it and you know it's out there, uh, you'll find use cases for it.
35:21
So remote desktop has been a thing forever, right? It's been, you know, TeamViewer is what we used to do back in the day, right? There's all sorts of remote desktop.
35:29
Um, and then when, when gamers, gamers have all of a sudden said, "I, I have one really good gaming PC, uh, but maybe I don't wanna be sitting at my desk to play it." And where, with the proliferation of mobile gaming, right, there's been all the handhelds that have been really popular lately.
35:45
Everyone's making the, the handheld games.
35:48
The question has been, if I already have a big gaming PC, do I really need a high horsepower mobile device, or do I just need a remote display? And, and trying to get your gaming PC over the, the issue has always been latency, right? It's always been getting that in a frame rate that's actually usable.

21 MINS LATER

56:37
Yeah.
35:04
What's number two? What do you wanna talk about?
35:06
Yeah, so, so number two is, is for gamers.
35:08
And, and I think I might have briefly mentioned this, uh, on a past episode, but I wanna circle back to it just because I've been using it a ton lately, and it's, it's just one of those things that once you know about it and you know it's out there, uh, you'll find use cases for it.
35:21
So, remote desktop has been a thing forever, right? It's been, you know, TeamViewer is what we used to do back in the day, right? There's all sorts of remote desktop.
35:29
Um, and then when, when gamers, gamers have all of a sudden said, "I, I have one really good gaming PC, uh, but maybe I don't wanna be sitting at my desk to play it." And where, with the proliferation of mobile gaming, right, there's been all the handhelds that have been really popular lately.
35:45
Everyone's making the, the handheld games.
35:48
The question has been, "If I already have a big gaming PC, do I really need a high horsepower mobile device, or do I just need a remote display?" And, and trying to get your gaming PC over the, the issue has always been latency, right? It's always been getting that in a frame rate that's actually usable.

21 MINS LATER

56:37
Yeah
35:04
What's number two? What do you want to talk about?
35:06
Yeah.
35:06
So, so number two is, is for gamers.
35:08
And I think I might've briefly mentioned this, uh, on a past episode, but I want to circle back to it because I've been using it a ton lately.
35:14
And it's just one of those things that once you know about it and you know, it's out there, uh, you'll find use cases for it.
35:21
So, uh, Remote desktop has been a thing forever, right? It's been, you know, team viewers, what we used to do back in the day, right? There's all sorts of remote desktop.
35:30
And then when gamers have all of a sudden said, I have one really good gaming PC, but maybe I don't want to be sitting at my desk to play it.

21 MINS LATER

56:12
Yeah.

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