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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (15 children)

I'm not sure what this offers vs just using any screen sharing method, or SSH, with a mesh VPN.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (8 children)

I think it offers not having to know enough about each of those pieces to pick one of each and set them up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

If you're using a Pi I don't see why you'd want to avoid learning Linux. Setting up and connecting to SSH servers is an essential skill for anybody doing anything on Linux that isn't purely desktop use.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

While I generally agree that they should, I disagree that they should have to.

SSH and then some sort of VPN for remote terminal access isn't too bad.

It has been a decade or more since I tried setting up VNC, but I never could figure out how to connect to an existing X session. Has that setup gotten better?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Found the Zombie-bot rights supporter!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hehe.

Won't this new service help avoid that for users who haven't figured out how to safely expose a system to the Internet?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

There is no such "help". Either you learn what is going on and how to monitor or you are simply another easy target.

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