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    from anywhere on the planet, using just a web browser.

    The poor astronauts on the International Space Station miss out on so much.

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    Raspberry Pi Connect needs your Raspberry Pi to be running a 64-bit distribution of Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm that uses the Wayland window server. This in turn means that, for now, you’ll need a Raspberry Pi 5, Raspberry Pi 4, or Raspberry Pi 400.

    At the moment, the Raspberry Pi Connect service has just a single relay (TURN) server, located in the UK. This means that if rpi-connect chooses to relay traffic, the latency can be quite high.

    Our intention is that Raspberry Pi Connect will remain free (as in beer) for individual users with non-relayed connections, with no limit on the number of devices.

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      Meanwhile you could just set up all of it yourself and learn a couple of things along the way but instead rPi insists on giving its users training wheels for everything. I think it would be much more useful if they provided a dns service with dynamic ip handling.

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        What’s wrong with training wheels?

        Worst thing all these stupid guides do is not explain what the commands you are entering do.

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    I’m not sure what this offers vs just using any screen sharing method, or SSH, with a mesh VPN.

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      I think it offers not having to know enough about each of those pieces to pick one of each and set them up.

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        If you’re using a Pi I don’t see why you’d want to avoid learning Linux. Setting up and connecting to SSH servers is an essential skill for anybody doing anything on Linux that isn’t purely desktop use.

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          While I generally agree that they should, I disagree that they should have to.

          SSH and then some sort of VPN for remote terminal access isn’t too bad.

          It has been a decade or more since I tried setting up VNC, but I never could figure out how to connect to an existing X session. Has that setup gotten better?

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      The VNC server they previously bundled with raspberry pi os is not compatible with Wayland.

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          Like it or not Wayland is going to be the future of Desktop Linux. Preparing for that future is a good thing.

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            OK but it’s not ready now, objectively speaking. Don’t you think it’s a bit of a dick move from your OS to ship a version that breaks VNC and doesn’t offer an alternative?