Got the Mac mini M4 with national subsidy, my current old computer’s fan is noisy all day, thinking of using Mac mini as a remote server
Main purposes
- Development machine
- Various services (alist cinema is quite convenient)
Some necessary settings
- Remember to set Energy -> Check “Wake for network access”, otherwise it disconnects during sleep
- I just turned off sleep completely
VSCode/Cursor Configure remote development
Documentation: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh#_installation
- Enable remote SSH login on macmini
- Install Remote-SSH plugin in VSCode
- VSCode select Remote-SSH: Connect to Host and you’re good to go
Passwordless login
ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub jian@1.2.3.4
Summary
Using Mac mini as remote development machine with VSCode Remote SSH development is a pretty good experience
