A recent blog post by Simon Willison:
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Remote Desktop Access – Overview of my favourite client-server combinations 2025
The following combinations have worked best for me:
[last update: 14/05/2025]
| Remote Desktops | Windows Desktop | Mac Desktop | Linux Desktop Intel-/AMD-based | Linux Desktop ARM64 / aarch64 |
| Clients | ||||
| Windows Client | Windows RDP (builtin) | RustDesk | ThinLinc* | RustDesk |
| Mac Client | Windows App | RustDesk | ThinLinc* | RustDesk |
| Linux Client | RustDesk | RustDesk | ThinLinc* | RustDesk |
| iOS/iPad Client | Windows App | RustDesk | RustDesk | RustDesk |
| Android Client (untested) | Remote Desktop App | RustDesk | RustDesk | RustDesk |
* on high-resolution/Retina displays: use this workaround
If you’d like to enable external access to resources in your homelab or in your cloud environment, please don’t forget to choose a reasonably secure setup:
- VPN (e.g. Wireguard)
- Tailscale (with or without Headscale)
- Twingate (Zero Trust approach)
- Key-based SSH plus SSH-Tunnels to specific ports/web apps in homelab
- Windows RDP Gateway-Server
- etc.
textprocessing.org
Recent collection of text processing tools: http://textprocessing.org/
Word Map
Word Map “language teaching”
Word Map for “language teaching” (produced using google translate and wikipedia, source: tweet by @perezparedes [21/02/15])
VIEW (Visual Input Enhancement of the Web):
Instant colourization of grammar structures, instant learning activities from any page on the web. Supported languages: English, German, Spanish.
VIEW Toolbar – Firefox Add-on (Screenshot taken on Linux Mint 64-bit, extension is available on all major operating systems (Windows/Mac OSX/Linux)
Colourized prepositions in a Guardian Article published two hours ago … (2 clicks and 10 seconds away)!
… multiple-choice exercise on prepositions in the same article (2 clicks and 10 seconds away)!