RustDesk is a great option too for just Remote Access. Though I find it’s performance a bit slow, and with VPN I can use any tool I need same as on the LAN (my workflow is unchanged).
I do use RustDesk for the adhoc situations (friend needs help/new machine, etc). It’s faster to setup for ad-hoc support vs adding a Tailscale client.
You’ll need port forwarding to expose RDP yo the internet
No. Do NOT do this. RDP isn’t designed for the internet, it’s a security hole, even more so in a small business where they aren’t going to use advanced security (2FA, certs, etc).
Remote access should always be over a secure connection, such as a VPN.
Never port-forward RDP - you’re just begging to get owned.
Ooh, I’d forgotten about Netbird!
Thanks for the reminder to test it as an alternative to Tailscale.
It sounds like what you really need is a mesh VPN not really KVM.
Install Tailscale on all the machines and you’re set.
Alternatively Hamachi.
Edit: You could also install Tailscale on a single dedicated device on your destination network (such as a Raspberry Pi or mini PC) and configure it as a Tailscale router. This would enable you to access any IP-based device on the network without that device having Tailscale installed on it.
With any of this you could access machines just like on the local network, using VNC or RDP.
Funny how she has trouble finding it!
(Hold the door for me please, I’m right behind you).
Yea this is standard for sharing this kind of info with another company.
Others have mentioned power - you may want to do some math on drive cost vs power consumption. There’ll be a drive size point that is worth the cost because you’ll use fewer drives which consume less power than more drives.
Having built a number of systems, I’m a LOT more conscious of power draw today for things that will run 24/7. Like my ancient NAS draws about 15 watts at idle with 5 drives (It will spin down drives).
More drives will always mean more power, so maybe fewer but larger drives makes sense. You may pay more up front, but monthly power costs never go away.
Also, I’ve built a 10 drive n NAS like this (because I had the drives and the case, mono and ram). It can produce a lot if heat while doing anything, and it was a significant power hog - like 200w when running. And it really didn’t idle very well (I’ve run it with UnRaid, TruNAS and Proxmox).
And while more drives means more failure opportunity, it also means when a failed drive is replaced, it’s likely of a different manufacture period.
I have a 5-drive NAS that I’ve been upgrading single drives every 6 months. This has the benefit of slowly increasing capacity while also ensuring drives are of different ages so less likely to fail simultaneously. (Now I’m waiting for prices to come back down, dammit).
I’ve never run into issues running desktop hardware without ECC as servers - since the 90’s.
I just don’t think the extra cost is worthwhile - I’m not running systems/services that will have catastrophic failures without ECC (or have weird bitflips that would corrupt some transaction).
BillGill said it better than I could - speed of light limitation.
I can add that our nearest star is 4 light-years away, so if we could travel at the speed of light it would still take 4 years to get there.
We can’t even travel a fraction the speed of light yet - even if we could there are massive challenges to even approaching a fraction of the speed of light.
As for something magical like warp, well that’s still just ideas.
Lol, exactly
Starbucks doesn’t get my money because it’s shit.
I haven’t been to a Starbucks since 2012
Space travel is a non-starter. It’s taken decades to even leave the solar system.
Yea, I thought about the page file adjustments, but didn’t feel like getting up and looking at a machine because I couldn’t remember exactly what the screens were, haha.
Plus Windows has gotten so much better. With 95, Win2k, etc, manually setting it really made a difference - seemsnto make much less difference today. Though it could help OP - worth trying anyway.
Yea, that’s a challenging part for sure, one that I still deal with.
It can be done, but you need to configure the sync jobs “just so”. Send only from the phone, don’t sync deletions, etc.
In the past I’ve setup a master folder on my phone and used subfolders for “upload only” Syncthing shares. Then wherever I put a file on my phone it gets synced to the appropriate folder on my server.
4GB for Windows is a bare minimum for it to run. 8GB is minimum for a usable system, 16 if you need to actually work.
Turn off all the animation (start, run, sysdm.cpl - under the Performance tab click the radio button for performance).
Not really much else you can do short of increasing the ram.
The 60’s - when jeans were still very rough material and needed a LOT of breaking in.
Today’s jeans are wimpy by comparison.
But regardless of the material, I wash my pants when they get dirty, not every time I wear them.
Its really to compensate for the lack of framers.
Five years ago the average age of a framer was 55.
This is what happens when you don’t have a new generation of people trained to do something - constructors have no choice but to use automation.
I’m not blaming anyone - its just an observation of pressures. Framing’s a tough job.
There will be massive outlays for the systems, they’ll probably be leased or you’ll have companies that specialise in managing the system, and as a GC you’ll contract them to implement the design.
E/n?
I’ve never heard this term before.