| Walt Mankowski via plug on 2 May 2025 16:59:07 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] JetKVM |
I'm not sure how comfortable I'd feel about hooking up a small black box computer like that and allowing connections from the outside world that much control over my computer. $70 seems pretty cheap for what I saw in that video. How do you know they're not sniffing all your traffic and sending it off to some third party? Walt On Fri, May 02, 2025 at 06:56:53PM -0400, Casey Bralla via plug wrote: > I just got one of these, and it is awesome! > > https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jetkvm/jetkvm > > $70 for a very effective remote KVM that can even reboot your computer and > let you make changes to the BIOS because it's a hardware device, not > software running on your system. > > I'd been playing around with lots of remote access systems to control my > server from my office, but they all seemed to stink in various ways. This > one is hardware-based, VERY low latency, and "just works". > > It still has a couple of software quirks that are being ironed out. The > worst is a random MAC address with every reboot. (A fix is almost ready for > that). > > And the tariff confusion is bonking the supply chain a bit, and will > probably delay the next batch. > > Highly recommended! > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug