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For remote access I use two solutions that both have the features your looking for.

The first one which I have used for longer than I can remember is MeshCentral github.com/Ylianst/MeshCentral

This one works great, is web based, let’s you access a shell, or you can make port tunnels been agents, access RDP or vnc in the web UI, the file system etc.

it’s a really great one stop shop that more than covers what you’re looking for.

The second is RustDesk github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk with the betterdesk server and web UI github.com/UNITRONIX/BetterDesk

This one scratched my TeamViewer itch and weekend pretty well. It’s newer than MeshCentral and not as easy to setup however on top of the web client it’s got apps which in my opinion provide a better experience for remote desktop access than MeshCentrals novnc client especially around copy paste.

All in all, of your looking for something ultra easy I recommend MeshCentral, it’s minor quirks around novnc are so easy to overlook since it just works so well.

If you want a modern TeamViewer then go with RustDesk/betterdesk but it’s newer and needs some extra work to get going.

All these projects are open source, free, self hostable, has headless file and terminal access, and have web clients.

For using Linux on any remote solution you pretty much have to run the desktop on x11 instead of Wayland. I don’t know if any software has found a great Wayland solution yet.

My experience is the opposite, WhatsApp is my most reliable bridge requiring exactly zero intervention to reauthorize or troubleshoot.

Your right you still have to have the app because of how it works. But you can’t bridge the calls anyways, I just have message notifications off.

This isn’t about continued uptime. It’s total time on. Rebooting doesn’t reset this figure.

Ha indeed, every room in the house is getting 2 faceplates (on roughly opposite sides of the room) with 4 Ethernet that runs each back to the server rack. Is every room having 8 runs right back to the switch excessive, you bet.

In my old place I had one faceplate with 2 ethernet, coax and phone to each room, but phone and coax is useless and I didn’t have enough Ethernet.

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Top to Bottom: 48port Patch panel Cisco 2990 48 port Poe 48port Patch panel (future) Cisco 2990 48 port Poe (future) 24 port switch (spare) Pfsense 2.5gb eth minipc 4u server 20 bay (proxmox)

Bottom area: 2 mini pcs (proxmox) PiKVM and ezcoo switch connected to all PCs Couple of UPS

The access to the crawlspace isn’t great so the CrapRack ^tm^ had to be assembled in the crawlspace.