The chrome app was awesome. The website sucks.

But RealVNC's products are all built on that same VNC protocol...? At least I see many things referencing it and nothing indicating that they don't use it.

The only novel-looking thing I see on RealVNC's website is adaptive bitrate, which I don't think I've seen in the open source servers.

$10 to TechSoup gets you 60% off list price for TeamViewer. Your license pays for simultaneous controlling sessions, so our plan that would have cost $200/mo. is $80.

We've had access to TechSoup forever, but we keep forgetting to take advantage of it. We were able to make our money go a lot farther than it would have this year because we started looking through their catalog again.

https://www.copilot.com/Pricing

I hope to not have to work for a PE-owned company in the future, as their goals (to position for their exit, usually 3-5 years after initial purchase) often result in short-term oriented choices that hurt a company's long term potential

PE "support growth" for forcing loans on the company with expectation they'll be paid back, which makes the company operate very differently than a VC-backed growth startup.

Keeping 100+ machines up and running, and caring for individual ones sounds like a whole lot of work. Admittedly we got away with it because those were lab computers used by students, and data persistence did not matter as much (each student had a samba share mounted, which was on a central server and had backups)

I do wonder if full disk cloning + sysprep is still an option with newer versions of windows.

On modern networks and storage hardware, reimaging a PC from scratch is sometimes faster than rebooting Windows after an update (and always faster than a "feature" update).

Anyone looking into mass image deployment should check out Fog[0], because it is free and works pretty well.

[0] https://fogproject.org

Worst job I have ever had though. The amount of politics that go on in a public school is ridiculous.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Freeze_%28software%29

Our problem with Deep Freeze was getting it to work nice with our locally installed software mixed our custom Novell stack that pushed software dynamically based on logged in users. So we relegated it to computer labs that had no local software.

It's about trust and expectations.

If a software company blindsides me with a 1,000% price increase overnight (or ∞%) without advance warning, then how can I trust them to warn me in advance about other major changes in the future? If they don't have the decency to give advance notice about that, can I trust them to give me advance warning before they change major features, or plan to have downtime, or plan to shut down--which becomes a real concern if they're fumbling around with pricing changes.

SSO and access management services are things I want to have zero nagging concerns or doubts about. Anything that shakes my trust in those services is enough to make me consider other options.

No one likes going into another budget meeting because some vendor didn't give you warning and you need to adjust in the current fiscal year. Your company will be remembered and not in a good way. If you sell software to businesses you really, really need to understand corporate budgeting and the process they go through. Heck, if you sell to Federal (US) entities you better know the significance of October and schedule accordingly.

ReSharper alone would easily save me that much per year in productivity gains.

I moved over to Ubuntu from Windows, so picking up Rider as my replacement for Visual Studio was well worth it - and at about 1/3 of the price of Visual Studio alone (and having the ReSharper features built in) it was a bargain.