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My best guess is that its made for the lower end of tech user, who knows they want to ssh but doesn't know enough to be able to do it securely on their own? Oth
by voidUpdate 2y ago
My best guess is that its made for the lower end of tech user, who knows they want to ssh but doesn't know enough to be able to do it securely on their own? Otherwise I have no idea what the use-case is
- geerlingguy 2y agoThat's exactly the use case—I think after they switched to wayland, and RealVNC didn't work (it was included with the default install on every full version of Pi OS), they wanted to make sure there was an easy to use replacement. Most of us on HN use our own VPNs, or have a dozen other ways to get at infrastructure from anywhere (and mosh, as others have suggested, is a better alternative for simple shell access over high-latency flaky connections)... but there are a _lot_ of people who don't want to (or couldn't figure out how to) maintain their own VPN. Or they want to deploy Pis at remote sites and each one has a weird and unique networking config, and they don't want to mess with Tailscale or the like. It's a useful service, but it's not supposed to compete with homelabber setups, or enterprise solutions. At least I don't think so.
- bobim 2y agoOk, thanks, it makes sense. I can stick with dietpi and ssh.