If you use a Raspberry Pi for DIY projects, you can connect it to a monitor. The only exceptions are the Raspberry Pi Zero and Zero 2 W. That's great if you're setting up a one-and-done project ...

Raspberry Pi is one of the most popular single-board computers available, as it's extremely versatile. Here's how to use it with your laptop as a monitor.

While there already several ways to connect to your Raspberry Pi, the official Connect tool is potentially easier.

Enter Raspberry Pi Connect, a new built-in way to access a Raspberry Pi from nearly anywhere you can open a browser, whether to control yourself or provide remote assistance.

Click on the Raspberry (Start) button, hover the cursor over the Preferences tab, and choose Raspberry Pi Configuration. Navigate to the Interfaces tab, enable the toggle next to SSH, and hit OK.

When you want to use Tor, you just connect to the Raspberry Pi’s Wi-Fi network. When you don’t, you can use whatever network you use usually.

The Raspberry Pi 2 Windows 10 images don’t use the deduplication features, or this would have been much more annoying to write.