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I recently moved, and the infra provider of the non-profit ISP I use imposes them a two month delay to set up a new fiber line.

During this delay, I met neighbors who accepted to share their WiFi with me. They live a bit far, across the way. The best way I found to get a stable connection with decent speeds was to hang my phone at the top of a window using a salad bag, and share the phone connection to a computer via USB.

I didn't find a way to automatically enable the USB connection sharing before plugging in the USB cable (didn't look for a solution neither, admittedly), so I had to plug the cable, enable the sharing and then put the phone in the bag and adjust the position, all that making sure the cable doesn't disconnect or everything needs to be redone from the start.

I discovered far too late that my distro now has a scrcpy package, which makes enabling the sharing conveniently from the computer.

Yes, I could have tried to ask immediate neighbors instead, probably. I should get my own line this morning, as it happens.

scrcpy is fantastic. I used to write longer texts with it, and now that I can use it again, I'll probably start doing it again.

In recent version of Android, it appears one needs to unlock blindly as the screen is black at this time, I suppose for security reasons.

This is something that non-techsavvy users would go nuts over how it seemlessly and easily works.

> A virtual display can now be made flex using --flex-display (or -x), meaning it can be resized dynamically along with the client window.

Amazing.

https://github.com/wsvn53/scrcpy-mobile would allow you to control Android phone from an iOS device.

Amazing tool, but I had to stop using it. On my Samsung phone, I gesture based navigation. And every time I use scrcpy, the navigation stops working, and I have to restart the phone to get it working again. There's a ticket open but the developer has been unable to replicate the issue. Sadly until that is fixed, it is impossible to continue using it. The inconvenience (at least for me) is too real.

For the longest time I was so focused on getting to use an android as a "good" mic for a windows PC.

Scrcpy was a very hot contender, but I never got it to work well enough with low enough latency.

If you feel you should try this, just buy an audio interface and a cheap XLR mic.

Amazing piece of software. I discovered it very recently when my screen OLED stopped working.

I had to read this three times before I could see this was not somehow a release of strcpy.

Agreed with everyone else. Scrcpy is amazing and is so easy to use.

Neat. I went the other way and started writing an RDP server for Android, just so that I can use _one_ client for everything. It’s been tough going, but it’s passably usable now.

Its beautifully written C code. Very readable and grokable.

I love Scrcpy, and I miss it after switching from Android to iOS.

iOS screen sharing isn’t available in the EU. Thanks Apple.

Scrcpy is fantastic, no idea how it Just Works™ so smoothly and painlessly, but it does.

Another gem to avoid using a tiny phone screen even more. Worked with my old LG V20 (Android 8.0). Perfectly smooth over USB 2.0. Reasonably smooth over Wi-Fi (adb tcpip 5555 while USB is connected, then scrcpy --tcpip=192.168.1.xxx_ wirelessly).

[TIL/xkcd#1053] scrcpy ("pronounced 'screen copy'") is "Display and control your Android device"

> mirrors Android devices (video and audio) connected via USB or TCP/IP and allows control using the computer's keyboard and mouse. It does not require root access or an app installed on the device. It works on Linux, Windows, and macOS

Coincidentally enough (or not) just yesterday while skimming through the Google laptop "Googlebook" announcement and thinking "Meh... none of that is new" and wondering if I could genuinely do all that with my current Linux/GrapheneOS setup I thought "Ok... maybe the Android windows is new" and I checked more scrcpy virtual display and display id which I use for mirroring Quest headsets. I thought "OK ok Google I give you that tiny feature" only to wake up this morning, nope, not even that.

scrcpy new disappoints. Consistently stable, butter smooth & well maintained. Kudos to the maintainers.

TIL Scrcpy is maintained by Genymobile and not Google. It's great for letting Claude Code operate your phone for doing QA tests

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