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I've done this (vps for emacs). My tuppenth worth: - NoMachine with X works really well, especially over a VPN. Full linux desktop, great scaling and kb suppor
by pomatic 4y ago
I've done this (vps for emacs). My tuppenth worth:
- NoMachine with X works really well, especially over a VPN. Full linux desktop, great scaling and kb support
- Use mosh instead of ssh, especially if connecting over cellular, as it is tolerant of dropped connections
- Like the person who switched to an X230, I followed a similar path finally settling on a Microsoft Surface v7 which was £300 second hand. The hardware is fantastic, with a glorious screen and lovely typecover keyboard. Live in WSL and it could be a linux box. I leave the ipad behind now when I travel.
Having said that, even if it had to be handbuilt against a testflight account, it would be wonderful to have a native emacs app. Seems like the developers of hummingbird eXceed or blink might be clever enough to do that?
Although I went into the purchase knowing about Apple's walled garden, I really do resent the way good hardware has been artificially crippled. It feels like being treated like a child, I should be able to make informed decisions with my own hardware! I won't be buying another ipad unless things change up big time.
- tbran 4y agoI thought "NoMachine on X" was a joke or slang, but it turns out NoMachine is free remote desktop software (Linux, Mac, Windows, Raspberry Pi, ARM, Android, and IOS) [0]. Looks like they make money with enterprise sales. Thanks for the tip! [0]: https://downloads.nomachine.com/ https://downloads.nomachine.com/
- jbellis 4y agoWhy does NoMachine work better over a VPN?
- pomatic 4y agoIt does autodiscovery of all no-machine capable devices on the LAN
- codetrotter 4y agoDoes the autodiscovery for NoMachine work on Wireguard VPNs as well? I use, and love, Wireguard, but I think out of the box Wireguard does not support multicast. And I expect that NoMachine also depends on multicast to do its autodisovery. Probably with mDNS and DNS-SD. Upon googling now, it does seem like some people have successfully been able to get multicast working over Wireguard. For example: > Hey! Just in case you (or anyone else browsing this) still needs this, i've got avahi working over my wireguard client-to-site connection. I can access my home LAN computers using hostname.local from any VPN-connected device. > I think the missing piece was adding 224.0.0.251/32 and ff02::fb/128 (multicast addresses) to allowed ips. from https://www.reddit.com/r/WireGuard/comments/g80bxf/cant_get_zeroconfavahimdns_reflection_to_work/ https://www.reddit.com/r/WireGuard/comments/g80bxf/cant_get_... Likewise, there seem to be some additional useful information relating to mDNS / Avahi on this issue on GitHub, for various situations: https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/issues/262 https://github.com/lathiat/avahi/issues/262 And here is someone who got DLNA (which also uses multicast) working through site-to-site Wireguard VPN: https://an0n-r0.medium.com/making-dlna-through-site-to-site-vpn-work-f393629f4ce0 https://an0n-r0.medium.com/making-dlna-through-site-to-site-...
- seltzered_ 4y agoI skipped the iPad and settled on an HP Elite X2 G4 tablet which runs linux quite well, and am hoping either better support for newer Surface devices or other tablets (e.g. rog flow z13) improve. My real reason for doing this was ergonomics: https://www.reddit.com/r/ErgoMobileComputers/comments/vzs8mm/how_long_have_you_been_using_an_ergo_mobile/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ErgoMobileComputers/comments/vzs8mm... , but vented my ipad frustrations for a while ( https://imgur.com/a/CQwApt8 https://imgur.com/a/CQwApt8 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31648704 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31648704 ) Gnome has really made strides in the past couple years of having something fairly tablet friendly.