[–] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I think cooler is subjective. With a physical keyboard back in the day and Remote Desktop, I had a pocket-sized Windows PC with me at all times. With SSH, I had a portable terminal I could easily administer servers around the world with. I thought that was pretty cool.

Now I'm tap typing on a device with no physical feedback where the keyboard hides half the screen and reshuffles my terminal output every time said keyboard is shown and hidden. That's not cool at all.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    That's not quite the same - that gives you the appearance of being a local device, which is enough to fool the restriction.

    Their policy and technology enforcement is to charge for remote access, not relaying.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    If they think I'm going to purchase a computer that will become unsupported between 2-7 years from now and refuse to install the software I want to install, they're insane.

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