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Dr. Quadragon ❌

Stop listing VNC servers and clients as TeamViewer alternatives, THEY ARE NOT.

26 Apr 2022 at 23:02 | Open on mastodon.ml
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straw

@drq I agree, it's so annoying! but... is it actually not?

26 Apr 2022 at 23:02 | Open on socks.pinnoto.org
Dr. Quadragon ❌

@straw No. VNC requires direct network access. If you are on the other side of the globe and the user on that machine is not very computer-literate, good luck getting to that point.

TeamViewer and Anydesk are zero-configuration, pretty much. They basically require only running an app and passing a string of numbers to operate.

26 Apr 2022 at 23:10 | Open on mastodon.ml
Dr. Quadragon ❌
straw

@drq oh yeah, maybe someone should make a VNC-based thing that is easy to set up... but VNC does serve the same function once set up right?

26 Apr 2022 at 23:10 | Open on socks.pinnoto.org
Dr. Quadragon ❌

@straw Getting an image and listening for input events is not hard. "Setting up" is the key part. It makes a world of difference.

26 Apr 2022 at 23:14 | Open on mastodon.ml
Evv1L (Эвил)

@drq so, do we have any open source alternatives?

26 Apr 2022 at 23:11 | Open on mastodon.ml
Dr. Quadragon ❌

@Evv1L If we had, I'd like to know what it is, because I want it.

26 Apr 2022 at 23:12 | Open on mastodon.ml
Evv1L (Эвил)

@drq we have RustDesk but you need selfhost this

26 Apr 2022 at 23:16 | Open on mastodon.ml
Dr. Quadragon ❌

@Evv1L RustDesk is _almost_ what I want. Get it to handshake without an intermediate server over p2p (like Tox) - and I'm sold.

Yes, the string of characters will be longer, but I won't have to explain to the customer what a "RustDesk server" is.

26 Apr 2022 at 23:18 | Open on mastodon.ml
Konflicker

@drq actually, if you mix something like yggdrasil and vnc...

27 Apr 2022 at 4:27 | Open on mastodon.ml
hkc (Carbonated)

@konflicker
VNC over ngrok or ssh-j should also work

@drq

27 Apr 2022 at 6:59 | Open on mastodon.astrr.ru
Dr. Quadragon ❌

@konflicker ... for which to work you still have to find a peer...

27 Apr 2022 at 7:05 | Open on mastodon.ml
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