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>You don't ever remotely log into your desktop??! Is this really so common as to deserved two questions marks and an exclamation point? As one datapoint, if I'

>You don't ever remotely log into your desktop??! Is this really so common as to deserved two questions marks and an exclamation point? As one datapoint, if I've left files on my desktop at home that I need from work, I get fired.

Asooka 7y ago
Yes? How else am I supposed to access my workstation remotely? Right now I just log in to the company VPN and ssh to my workstation when I need to do work from home. Remote access is a basic feature that has just worked on Linux since as far back as I can remember. And I remember when I had to twiddle the TV antenna to get good signal.
- 0xffff2 7y ago
  Obviously we live in very different worlds. I am not supposed to access my workstation remotely. Again, if I managed to do it I would be fired.
  - IcePic 7y ago
    But that is policy and nothing technical.
catalogia 7y ago
I often log into my media server in my apartment to start a movie or tv show playing with mpv. Is that reasonable? I think that's a reasonable usecase. mpv is a perfectly suitable media player, and ssh is a perfectly suitable way to log into a computer. Why shouldn't I do this? Is it what most "normal people" do? Of course not! Most normal people buy a spyware 'smart TV', roku, or some other proprietary appliance. So why the hell should the common habits of the general population be considered? If their habits are to be the guiding principle of the linux desktop, I'll soon have no reason to use the linux desktop. Incidentally at one of my former (FANG) workplaces, each developer was given a RHEL workstation and a windows or mac laptop. Using ssh from one's laptop to access the workstation while in meetings, working from home (including oncall in the middle of the night), etc was common and permitted. This is not as crazy as you seem to think.

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>You don't ever remotely log into your desktop??! Is this really so common as to deserved two questions marks and an exclamation point? As one datapoint, if I'

by 0xffff2 7y ago

Asooka 7y ago
Yes? How else am I supposed to access my workstation remotely? Right now I just log in to the company VPN and ssh to my workstation when I need to do work from home. Remote access is a basic feature that has just worked on Linux since as far back as I can remember. And I remember when I had to twiddle the TV antenna to get good signal.
- 0xffff2 7y ago
  Obviously we live in very different worlds. I am not supposed to access my workstation remotely. Again, if I managed to do it I would be fired.
  - IcePic 7y ago
    But that is policy and nothing technical.
catalogia 7y ago
I often log into my media server in my apartment to start a movie or tv show playing with mpv. Is that reasonable? I think that's a reasonable usecase. mpv is a perfectly suitable media player, and ssh is a perfectly suitable way to log into a computer. Why shouldn't I do this? Is it what most "normal people" do? Of course not! Most normal people buy a spyware 'smart TV', roku, or some other proprietary appliance. So why the hell should the common habits of the general population be considered? If their habits are to be the guiding principle of the linux desktop, I'll soon have no reason to use the linux desktop. Incidentally at one of my former (FANG) workplaces, each developer was given a RHEL workstation and a windows or mac laptop. Using ssh from one's laptop to access the workstation while in meetings, working from home (including oncall in the middle of the night), etc was common and permitted. This is not as crazy as you seem to think.