# Reaching your machine

Four ways in, and you will use more than one.

## The desktop

Install the Hinode application on your Mac, Windows PC or Linux machine, sign in, and press Connect. The desktop of your workspace appears in a window: a full Ubuntu session with a graphics card behind it.

It needs a real computer. A phone or a browser tab cannot show the stream. Everything else — seeing what is running, what it costs, pausing a machine — works from anywhere.

## SSH

Every workspace and every running machine answers at a stable name, so `ssh`, `scp`, `rsync` and `git` work the way they do with any server. Install the `hinode` command-line tool, sign in once and run its setup: it makes a key for this computer, registers it with your account, and writes the configuration, so connecting is `ssh yourworkspace` with nothing to paste.

The application installs that tool for you, so signing in once in the app is usually all it takes.

Connecting to a sleeping **workspace** wakes it — that is cheap and it is what you meant. A sleeping **machine** does not wake on an SSH attempt, and that is deliberate: a large machine costs real money an hour, and typing `ssh` is not consent to spend it. Resume it first, and the connection works.

## An application in your own browser

Some applications have a web interface, and you may want it beside your other tabs rather than inside a streamed window. `hinode open <application>` wakes the workspace if it is asleep, starts the application if it is not running, forwards its port, and opens the tab. It lasts as long as the command runs.

This needs the desktop application or the command-line tool: the connection is a tunnel, so the port is never opened to the internet.

## An editor

Visual Studio Code and anything else that speaks SSH connects straight to a workspace or a machine over the same name and the same key. You edit files that live on the machine, and the machine runs what you write.

## An assistant

Claude and other assistants can read your account through Hinode's own connector: what you have, what is running, and what it costs right now. On the web you add it as a connector by address; on your own computer, an assistant loads the `hinode` tool directly, and it works as you, with no extra sign-in.