Linux

Accessing a remote computer from a mobile device

Since 2018, I’ve been using an iPad Pro as my main personal computer (besides my work laptop). It’s great for all my creative work. But every so often I need to run something that’s not supported on iPadOS. So I bought the lowest spec Mac mini available at the time (a 2020 M1 with 8 GB of RAM and a 256 GB SSD). I use my work laptop in a desktop configuration (with an external mouse, keyboard and monitor), and I prefer not to have to swap the USB and HDMI cables over. So the simple option is to use remote desktop software. Microsoft offers its own guest client, but it can only connect to hosts running the Pro version of Windows. For everything else, there’s Chrome Remote Desktop (CRD).

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Running ARM Linux on an M1 Mac

Next week, I’m going to look at running non-Apple Intel binaries on M1 Macs. But today, I’ll go over some options for running ARM Linux on M1 Macs. Specifically, I’m going to cover Ubuntu because it’s the most straightforward install. Why would you want to do this? Well, as good as homebrew is, I’ve found that there are quite a lot of missing packages and my experience of building from source on the latest macOS hasn’t been a particularly pleasant one.

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