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So it's happened; mom's venerable Dell has bit the dust and I'm being called on to find her a new laptop. Everything I've seen here and elsewhere says Windows 10 is a privacy nightmare and we're trusting Microsoft's forced automatic updates to not break the computer. Dell is still offering computers with Win 7 and 8.1, but Microsoft is pushing the OS upgrade hard and heavy. I'd love for her to let me set her up with Linux but she's devoted to Google Picasa (Google not porting their apps is another rant) and I'm not sure how often she's going to be calling me with some Windows only program she needs. And then there's Apple, which makes my fingers itch to type, but it's looking better and better. So, what is the collective wisdom of the Soylentils*?
- Is windows 10 really not that bad and just roll with it.
- Is Linux finally ready for Grandma?
- Stick with 8.1 and turn off all the updates?
- Shell out the cash for a Macbook?
*Irony duly noted.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by frojack on Tuesday November 03 2015, @06:27PM
Yup. autossh
http://linux.die.net/man/1/autossh [die.net]
something like this run on Grandma's machine upon every boot:
autossh -M 0 -f -N -o "ServerAliveInterval 300" -o "ServerAliveCountMax 3" -R 39876:localhost:22 joehacker@homebase.homeip.net
joehacker is your login on your own machine
homebase.homeip.net points to your own machine.
On your machine, every time you need a shell on grandma's machine you just type:
ssh localhost -p 39876
It pierces any firewall Grandma might be behind.
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