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Teamviewer Terminates Perpetual Licenses (consumerrights.wiki)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Been using them for years.

It's ~~completely~~ free, open source and has:

Unsupervised (for headless servers) or supervised (helping out relatives) access
Easily file transfers
Cross-copy paste
Identification server (what gives out connection IDs) can be self-hosted or you can use theirs for free
Can control PCs from mobile app (~~though not vice versa~~ apparently they support this now!)
Experimental web browser client.

EDIT: I forgot, but it's also much better at compressing video effectively than realVNC, which is what I used to use. Performance and latency remains fairly good even at low bitrate.

For a little while, I even used to play point and click games remotely with my brother over it. Probably too much latency for an action game though.

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

Sorry, just trying to understand. On their site the 'self-hosting' solutions have pricing. Is there something different that is free?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think it's if you want to have user management. There's some sort of admin console you have to pay for, but I don't use it.

To be honest I had kind of forgotten it was a thing. If you're using this for a business then you might want to link it to your OIDC (Microsoft account etc.) and therefore pay for those extra features.

However if you use it to connect to your own devices or those of your friends like you would with TeamViewer (via device IDs and per-device passwords) as I do, you won't have to pay for it.

Give it a go and see how you get on!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Right on, thanks for the info!