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Is there any such thing as a "remote control" device that will forward your mouse and keyboard input over USB to another computer?
Not like one of those 31337 h4ck3r keystroke injector things, but something to fake "remote desktopping" with.
 
Kosher Dill said:
Is there any such thing as a "remote control" device that will forward your mouse and keyboard input over USB to another computer?
Not like one of those 31337 h4ck3r keystroke injector things, but something to fake "remote desktopping" with.
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VNC Viewer is another suggestion.
 
Kosher Dill said:
It's for a computer I can't install software on, otherwise those would be good ideas.
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Is it a Windows machine? If so and if you don't need to share the display and input with the console session, you could use Remote Desktop..
 
What would be my best option for a service where I can remotely run programs like youtube-dl and then connect to that service with a FTP to download my haul to my home connection?
 
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What would be my best option for a service where I can remotely run programs like youtube-dl and then connect to that service with a FTP to download my haul to my home connection?
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A virtual private server or VPS is basically a virtual machine hosted on the Internet. It's primarily used for running web servers and other servers with more freedom than you can get from using a shared hosting service like Dreamhost, but really you can run any type of software on them. Prices vary but if you're just going to be using it for yourself and not as a public server, any cheap plan should suffice - some start as low as $5 a month. The down side is that you need to be pretty familiar with Unix/Linux to use them - the hosting company can usually pre-install an OS image if you'd like, but beyond that, you're on your own when it comes to procuring software and setting up servers. Here's an article with more information and blatant referral links to some host options.
 
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Looking to pick up some courses this summer.

I already know the basics. Any recommendations on what to study? ie Frontend/Backend/Databases/Security?

I know how to set up stuff in html, python, react, angular. I wNna follow up with the next level.
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Ultimately, it's up to you and what you feel comfortable with. It took me a little over a year to find a profession I like and usually enjoy.

However, if you're going just for money, security and databases are the safe bets.
 
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Any specific services?
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If you're gonna be on the Winders/MS side of things, SQL Server. If web dev, MySQL/MariaDB. If game dev or embedded systems, SQLite. If you want to be an elitist snob, PostgreSQL.

The concepts are generally the same between all of them, though (except for SQLite, which stores and reads data via a single local file, whereas the others use a client-server architecture). If you learn the basics of one, the concepts will generally map over to others pretty easily.
 
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Kosher Dill said:
Is there any such thing as a "remote control" device that will forward your mouse and keyboard input over USB to another computer?
Not like one of those 31337 h4ck3r keystroke injector things, but something to fake "remote desktopping" with.
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To do the same thing at the same time on two computers?
 
Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
To do the same thing at the same time on two computers?
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To make a sort of fake "remote desktop" on a computer that's completely locked down and can't have any settings changed to do it the ordinary way in software, but does let you plug in your own mouse, keyboard, and monitor.
Have the computer send keystrokes and mouse movement via USB, and use a video capture card to display the HDMI output from it in a window on the "master" machine. You know, and get fancy so the keystrokes are only sent out to the "slave" machine when the video window has focus. That was my idea anyway.

I imagine the software would have to be written custom for this.
 
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Kosher Dill said:
To make a sort of fake "remote desktop" on a computer that's completely locked down and can't have any settings changed to do it the ordinary way in software, but does let you plug in your own mouse, keyboard, and monitor.
Have the computer send keystrokes and mouse movement via USB, and use a video capture card to display the HDMI output from it in a window on the "master" machine. You know, and get fancy so the keystrokes are only sent out to the "slave" machine when the video window has focus. That was my idea anyway.

I imagine the software would have to be written custom for this.
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Huh. I have never tried to make it happen intentionally, and it won't reach farther than the dongle can transmit, but if a Logitech kb/ms combo dongle responds to the same basic ID then one computer will pick up the key- and mousestrokes from another computer(and vice versa, it's chaos). It can probably be re-programmed somehow.

I don't know about the streaming video feature(unless you split HDMI/DP) but if you're feeling brave you can make an arduino setup that identifies as a HID when plugged in and feed it the inputs remotely.
 
Kosher Dill said:
To make a sort of fake "remote desktop" on a computer that's completely locked down and can't have any settings changed to do it the ordinary way in software, but does let you plug in your own mouse, keyboard, and monitor.
Have the computer send keystrokes and mouse movement via USB, and use a video capture card to display the HDMI output from it in a window on the "master" machine. You know, and get fancy so the keystrokes are only sent out to the "slave" machine when the video window has focus. That was my idea anyway.

I imagine the software would have to be written custom for this.
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Something like this or this (Jeff Geerling reviewed a more complete box based on this on the 'Geerling Engineering' channel)?

I imagine if you wanted this to be uh, 'less obvious', you could use something like a display splitter to split the industrial PC's display out to the regular monitor and the KVM, which I understand exist (whether they work is another question)... I can't imagine redisplaying input from USB HDMI capture thingie piped through a Pi-class SBC and then out the Pi's HDMI out would be especially performant.
 
Any suggestions for sites that stream sports?
My favorite baseball and f1 streams got honey pot'd. Trying to find alternatives
 
Does anyone know of a directory comparison program besides for Meld? I keep a ton of pdf and epub files on various backups, and 4 out of 5 times Meld will crash when I try and run a comparison between them and my main documents folder. I also don't like that I can't edit the backup's directories via Meld. Perhaps there's some sort of file browser that can do this as well?
 
Redpill me on which type of keyboard is best to get. Still torn if membrane keyboards are worth giving a shit about. Mechanical keyboards are a big no-no to me.
 
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