Sharing my own experience. (Sorry if this is already widely known! I’m somewhat new to self-hosting.)

I have a 2009 Mac Mini (upgraded via OCLP) that I use as a server for BlueBubbles, Jellyfin, & SyncThing. It’s not hooked up to a monitor, so I’ve been servicing it by remoting in via Chrome Remote Desktop. I only have to access it a few times a year, but each time is such a chore because this old machine is SO slow. Constant beachballing, every task takes forever. Chrome RD finally stopped working this month, so I switched to TeamViewer and I’m shocked by how much faster everything’s running. It’s still not fast (it IS a 2009 machine, after all) but I’m able to accomplish tasks much faster than when I was using CRD. And just like CRD, I’m able to start TeamViewer at startup, even before login, which is crucial.

Thank you TeamViewer!

  • hauiA
    7·
    1 day ago

    Teamviewer is an absolute shitfest and had its data stolen approximately a year ago. Not to mention that it stops sessions for free tier users.

    Rustdesk is a great solution imo for selfhosters.

  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    101·
    1 day ago

    Have you tried RustDesk? TeamViewer was monitoring my traffic and they didn’t like that I was using it at school so they kept closing my sessions after five minutes, so…no more TeamViewer 😆. Haven’t missed TeamViewer in the slightest.

    • mulcahey@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      5·
      1 day ago

      Ooh, I’ll check out RustDesk, thank you! My hope is that I’ll use this so infrequently that I won’t run into that issue, but good to have a backup. And LOVE that it’s open-source & self-hosted.

  • greengnu@slrpnk.netEnglish
    4·
    1 day ago

    ssh -X ${hostname} works better than both even on ancient hardware (pre 1990)

    If you are going to self-host please embrace a shell (bash, powershell, fish, zsh, etc) any shell; then you’ll be fast and productive even at 300 Baud.

  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
    2·
    1 day ago

    If ssh isn’t an option, others already mentioned RustDesk.

    But I’ve been happy with VNC. (XVNC server, TigerVNC client) Incredibly lightweight, low bandwidth requirement, and I can get it up and running over ssh, so a system never needs to be plugged into anything other than a network cable.