u/mralstoner

I want to connect an old iPad Air 2 to a Windows 11 laptop using Remote Desktop software (or similar), so I can browse the web on my sofa. Any suggestions for a good app to achieve this?

Caveat: I don’t want my connection running over the internet, so that excludes cloud based programs like Google Remote Desktop. I believe also TeamViewer, AnyDesk and NoMachine fall into this category. I want the connection/data to stay local only.

I have started with SpaceDesk and this works well except every single time I want to use the keyboard I have to turn it on in the settings menu. It doesn’t stay on.

(The Air 2 is reaching the end of its browsing life, and many web pages don’t load properly anymore. I’ve tried about 5 different browsers)

Thanks

I want to buy a second-hand Surface Go 2 or 3 but I’ve heard they sometimes have wi-fi dropout issues, so I was wondering if installing Linux or Fyde solves that issue?

I’m after a cheap tablet with a desktop OS on it. Thanks

Today I’m getting a lot of mangled images when generating images of a fashion model sitting in a car. Missing body parts, missing car parts, mangled poses, etc. I don’t recall this trouble since the early days of Ai. Has Gemini gone backwards or am I just having a bad luck day?

SS: hydroacoustic data should have heard a plane crash in the Southern Indian Ocean but sensors recorded nothing. It’s not conclusive proof of anything but it is consistent with the satellite tracking data being hacked and spoofed to make the world think the plane crashed in the SIO when it was actually hijacked and landed somewhere else like Russia or China.

It’s been a good ride but in the last couple of months websites will often fail to load properly on my iPad Air 2. Anyone else experiencing the same?

I still love the screen on this iPad, the colours pop and there is not much glare, but it looks like the end is near…