Normally $199, you can now upgrade your PC to Windows 11 Pro for just $10
TL;DR: Windows 11 Pro is only $10 through October 4. Windows 10 is over 10 years old, and it really shows. Windows 11 Home is a solid upgrade, but it has its…
Sill (discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50112739) streams one Mac window, or the whole Desktop, to an iPhone or iPad and lets you control it by touch. It's open source, so I made an Android client for it. It's unofficial and not affiliated with Sill's author: it speaks Sill's existing protocol, so the Mac side is the stock Sill app, unchanged.Install Sill on the Mac, sideload the APK from Releases onto an Android 11+ phone on the same Wi-Fi, tap your Mac in the list that shows on your phone, then look for the 12-digit code in Sill on your Mac, and type it into the Android app.Then: tap to click, drag to scroll, hold-and-drag to select text or move windows, pinch to zoom the picture on the phone, a Draw toggle for whiteboard apps like tldraw, and a key row with Esc, Tab, Cmd/Ctrl/Option/Shift and arrows. It also works over Tailscale with Sill's Remote Access.All of the code was written by Claude Code, working from Sill's Swift source and its Python test client; I tested it on a Pixel 9 Pro XL.Not done yet: drawing the Mac's pointer, a trackpad mode, clipboard sync, and a Play Store listing (I don't have Play developer account, and new individual Play developer…
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